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    Eve's Hollywood
    Eve's Hollywood
    Eve's Hollywood
    Audiobook8 hours

    Eve's Hollywood

    Written by Eve Babitz

    Narrated by Mia Barron

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    About this audiobook

    Journalist, party girl, bookworm, artist, muse: by the time she'd hit thirty, Eve Babitz had played all of these roles. Immortalized as the nude beauty facing down Duchamp and as one of Ed Ruscha's Five 1965 Girlfriends, Babitz's first book showed her to be a razor-sharp writer with tales of her own. Eve's Hollywood is an album of vivid snapshots of Southern California's haute bohemians, of outrageously beautiful high-school ingenues and enviably tattooed Chicanas, of rock stars sleeping it off at the Chateau Marmont. And though Babitz's prose might appear careening, she's in control as she takes us on a ride through an LA of perpetual delight, from a joint serving the perfect taquito, to the corner of La Brea and Sunset where we make eye contact with a roller-skating hooker, to the Watts Towers. This "daughter of the wasteland" is here to show us that her city is no wasteland at all but a glowing landscape of swaying fruit trees and blooming bougainvillea, buffeted by earthquakes and the Santa Ana winds-and every bit as seductive as she is.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateApr 15, 2016
    ISBN9781501923869
    Eve's Hollywood
    Author

    Eve Babitz

    Eve Babitz was born and grew up in Hollywood. She began to write in 1972 after designing album covers for such artists as Linda Ronstadt, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds, and Lord Buckley. Her articles and short stories have appeared in Vogue, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and The New York Times Book Review. Her books include Eve’s Hollywood, Slow Days, Fast Company, Two by Two, and Sex and Rage. She died in 2021. 

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    • 4/5
      Not too interested in her childhood, but I like the way she writes. She’s honest and precise, and I find it refreshing (even though it’s old).
    • 5/5
      Reader Mia Barron is fantastic. Her voice suits the writer’s world to a tee. Thoroughly enjoyable listen. A devilishly good book!
    • 5/5
      A Movable Feast of nascent Los Angeles hipness with a narrator as smartly observant, sassy and poignant as you could wish for.
      A pleasure from beginning to end, this book captures a time, a place, an attitude and a voice as well as any fictionalized memoir, with an unmatched audio coupling of voice to prose.
      I can’t keep myself from recommending this book to everyone I meet. Eve Babitz is a treasure.
    • 5/5
      Rereading Eve's Hollywood [1974] reawakened many memories in me and compelled me to realize that so much of the Los Angeles that I adore was probably imbued within me before I ever lived there: I imbibed it all from this novelistic memoir! You see, I lived in San Diego when I read this, not realizing that a sub-text inside all of the vignettes and character studies was a screed against the East Coast literati who held the miraculous City of Angels in contempt (or was this pure envy?). Its many chapters contain studied portraits of famous characters who are hidden behind nom de plumes. There are asides about places (Angel's Flight) or comfort foods (taquitos). And then there are the longer yarns, peopled with Manson Family members or great painters and composers (Ruscha or Stravinsky) coupled with rockers like Gram Parsons or Mick Jagger. Now, there was a time in 1992 [WARNING: Name Drop Alert!] when I met Eve Babitz. You see, I knew she would be turning up at this literary soiree, so I brought my first editions with me and I 'ambushed' her. Little did I know, having not read her recent biography, that she has been known to tell her literary fans to "Beat it" and point to the door. In my case, as I shyly approached her, books and pen in hand, she turned to her friend Carolyn See and said, "Look Carolyn! This wonderful young man has all of my books!" (Much later I realized, seeing that her characterization of me was a half-truth, that good a writer as she was, she clearly was a bad judge of character!) All of my books, all inscribed and treasured, went out of print as new generations took the literary stage. But the cream always rises to the top, and, book by book, Eve Babitz's oeuvre is back in print and she has gone from being once a glamorous and talented scenester to a literary icon!
    • 3/5
      Everyone is into Eve Babitz now because of a biography out this year. Or maybe there’s a new biography because everyone is into her now.Either way, being unfamiliar with her other than as the woman in the nude playing chess against Marcel Duchamp in the famous photo, I tried her first collection. It’s pretty good, but I guess if we had to choose between ‘70s California women memoirists/essayists, I’d say I’m on Team Didion. Nevertheless, I do admire someone who tells her high school guidance counselor that her chosen career is “adventuress.”If you could choose the time and place in all of history to best enjoy your adolescence in peace and prosperity, it would be hard to come up with something better than 1950s and 60s Los Angeles.Her literary judgment is sound: she gives perceptive endorsements of Powell, Trollope, and James.
    • 4/5
      Devoured as if taquitos.