Eve's Hollywood by Eve Babitz harper The news triggers a self-destructive

The news triggers a self-destructive tailspin

she examines gender and marriage

Everyone else makes a narrow escape

which was named to more than thirty best-of-the-year lists and hailed as “a dazzling achievement” (Los Angeles Times) and “a heartbreaking

ultimately merging both into the songs of iconic recordings such as Horses

Eve's Hollywood by Eve Babitz harper The news triggers a self-destructiveJournalist, party girl, bookworm, artist, muse: by the time shed hit thirty, Eve Babitz had played all of these roles. Immortalized as the nude beauty facing down Duchamp and as one of Ed Ruschas Five 1965 Girlfriends, Babitzs first book showed her to be a razor sharp writer with tales of her own. Eves Hollywood is an album of vivid snapshots of Southern Californias haute bohemians, of outrageously beautiful high school ingenues and enviably tattooed