Eve Babitz, who immortalized L.A.’s louche ‘60s and ‘70s in books like Eve’s Hollywood and Sex and Rage: Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time, has been described as “the original artsy ‘it’ girl” (in LA Magazsine), as a “groupie-adventuress” (by herself, repeatedly) as a “dowager groupie” (scathingly, by Joan Didion’s husband John Gregory Dunn), and as “L.A.’s secret genius” (by the writer who is arguably responsible for her late-life renaissance, Lili Anolik, of Once Upon a Time at Bennington College fame). But who was she?? In this episode, L.A.-based writer and editor Alessandra Codhina helps us understand why Eve Babitz has been adopted as an unlikely feminist hero by Gen Z and Millennial it girls, what it is about Los Angeles that makes east coasters so hot under the collar, and whether the city of angels is, in fact, a “wasteland” (spoiler: it is not).
Show Notes
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Emma Knight @emmalknight
Katharine Fish, HiddenLight Productions
Dinner with Eve Babitz Playlist on Spotify
Books:
By Eve Babitz:
Eve’s Hollywood (1974)
Slow Days, Fast Company (1977)
Sex and Rage: Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time (1979)
L.A. Woman (1982)
Black Swans: Stories (1993)
Hollywood’s Eve (2019) by Lili Anolik
Articles:
“1970s Literary ‘It’ Girl Eve Babitz Is Having a Renaissance—at 76 by Merle Ginsberg” in LA Magazine
“My Favorite Year: In Los Angeles with Eve Babitz in 1971” by Dan Wakefield in LA Review of Books
“Joan Didion and Eve Babitz Shared an Unlikely, Uneasy Friendship—One That Shaped Their Worlds and Work Forever” by Lili Anolik for Vanity Fair
Extra Extras:
Someone found the Taquito Place!!
Eve Babitz’s Guide to LA, Curbed Los Angeles
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