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    Black Swans: Stories

    By Eve Babitz and Stephanie Danler

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    About this ebook

  • Following the wildly successful reception of Eve Babitz's novel, Sex and Rage, comes the reissue of her gorgeous story collection, Black Swans
  • Eve Babitz's writing speaks to a whole new generation of readers, and is just as totemic a writer to young women today as Francesa Lia Block's Weetzie Bat was to the children of the 90s
  • Essential summer reading choice, and the perfect Mother's Day gift for hip, trendy moms
  • Cover/packaging will be just as iconic as Sex and Rage
  • Extensive paid social media campaign and Instagram/Twitter influencer outreach
  • $15k marketing and publicity budget

    Praise from Librarians and Booksellers:

  • "Is there anyone cooler than Eve Babitz? Now, it's easy to be cool when you're jumping from party to party in the center of the party universe in your party years in THE party era, but what about when the party ends? Everyone gets sober or doesn't, everyone's fallen out of love with falling in love, money and malls have won out over peace and love, and AIDS erased those that made the parties worth attending—and yet, Eve's cool eye remains. Sure, these stories talk of Beverly Hills and surfing and sex and dinner parties where beautiful people revisit old loves—all told with Eve's signature flow and eye for the telling detail—but underneath the glamour, these stories are about loss, change, broken dreams, sobriety, a Los Angeles on fire, adjusting to life after years of oversaturation, and, most of all, tango. More than weather the down tides, she approaches these heavy changes with a flip of her 'Doris Day but punk' hair, a flash of her California smile as if to say, 'Hey c'est la vie, baby, what can you do?'" —Molly Moore, BookPeople (Austin, TX)
    • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCounterpoint
    Release dateApr 1, 2018
    ISBN9781640090514
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    Black Swans: Stories
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    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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    • 5/5
      Eve Babitz is a writer born and bred in L.A. She wrote exquisitely about the California lifestyle in the 70s and 80s and 90s. In the late 90s, she was horrifically burned in a fire at her home and has made a slow recovery over the past twenty years. Almost a recluse during this time, her publishers recently decided to reissue several of her books, including this delightful collection of short fiction. But is it fiction? It’s told in the first person and I got the idea that Babitz was telling her own story here. Not that it matters. She brilliantly portrays her beloved hometown on her own terms. With biting humor and an acerbic eye for detail, every cutting line adds fuel to the fire that propels the narrative forward. Whether she’s describing the AIDS epidemic, the casual drug use by Babitz and most people she came in contact with, her love of tango and learning to dance it herself, the diverse friends/lovers she managed to surround herself with, the Rodeo Gardens or a number of celebrities she just naturally hung around with, she manages to quickly draw you in. There is an obvious suggestion of the envy and jealousy underneath it all. And that’s the California Babitz loves.I was marking passages like crazy because the writing is just so remarkable. The first page of the story titled “Slumming at the Rodeo Gardens” had me chuckling. It begins this way:”It seems that the only people on TV who don’t dye their hair these days are recently released captives….This mentality, alas, is really bad in L.A., where the light is so pitiless….If you want to see all this striving against the ravages of being human in state-of-the-art proportions, go to the Rodeo Gardens on any Saturday afternoon; it is there that body lifts, skin peels, fat suctioning, teeth bonds and collagen flourish in the gracious noonday sun.”California’s reputation is well-deserved I guess. Literary references abound in this book. Apparently Babitz is just like us: a voracious reader. Proust, M.F.K. Fisher, Barbara Pym (that startled me. Only a reader like myself would mention the highly under rated Barbara Pym.), Virginia Woolf and….Joan Didion:”I wanted to look up to and admire men, not be like Joan Didion, whose writing scared the hell out of most men I knew…Joan Didion, who knew how to wear clothes, was too brilliant and great for anyone to write like and too skinny and sultry to look like. I thought if I couldn’t be like Joan, then I’d have to be dowdy and/or crazy, like Virginia Woolf.”I thought Babitz reminded me a little of Didion but I changed my mind. Didion never made me laugh out loud. I’ll be reading more by Eve Babitz. I’ve found a wonderful new writer who’s been writing for over thirty years.
    • 2/5

      No me gusto es muy pero feo la aplicación no tiene respuestas y no hay lecturas buuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!