Eve's Hollywood
Eve's Hollywood
Author: Eve Babitz
Desc: 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.