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100 1 Anolik, Lili,|eauthor.
245 10 Hollywood's Eve :|bEve Babitz and the secret history of
L.A. /|cLili Anolik.
250 First Scribner hardcover edition.
264 1 New York :|bScribner,|c[2019]
264 4 |c©2019
300 x, 277 pages :|billustrations ;|c22 cm
336 text|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|2rdamedia
338 volume|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references.
505 0 A Note, Slipped to the Reader; C'est Sheik; Marilyn Est
Morte!; "What Are Tits For?"; Lucky Little Lady from the
City of Lights; Who's Afraid of Earl McGrath?; Out of the
Blue; Blue Streak; Bluer Streak; Eve, Present Day; Novel
Est Morte!; Or Was It the Coke?; The Little Sister; To Eve
-with Love and Squalor (Also, Squalid Overboogie), Part I;
The Keyhole, an Interlude; To Eve-with Love and Squalor
(Also, Squalid Overboogie), Part II; Epilogue, or the Four
Faces of Eve.
520 "Los Angeles in the 1960s and 70s was the pop culture
capital of the world--a movie factory, a music factory, a
dream factory. Eve Babitz was the ultimate factory girl, a
pure product of LA. The goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky and
a graduate of Hollywood High, Babitz posed in 1963, at age
twenty, playing chess with the French artist Marcel
Duchamp. She was naked; he was not. The photograph,
cheesecake with a Dadaist twist, made her an instant icon
of art and sex. Babitz spent the rest of the decade
rocking and rolling on the Sunset Strip, honing her
notoriety. There were the album covers she designed: for
Buffalo Springfield and the Byrds, to name but a few.
There were the men she seduced: Jim Morrison, Ed Ruscha,
Harrison Ford, to name but a very few. Then, at nearly
thirty, her It girl days numbered, Babitz was discovered--
as a writer--by Joan Didion. She would go on to produce
seven books, usually billed as novels or short story
collections, always autobiographies and confessionals.
Under-known and under-read during her career, she's since
experienced a breakthrough. Now in her mid-seventies,
she's on the cusp of literary stardom and recognition as
an essential--as the essential--LA writer. Her prose
achieves that American ideal: art that stays loose,
maintains its cool, and is so sheerly enjoyable as to be
mistaken for simple entertainment. For Babitz, life was
slow days, fast company until a freak fire in the 90s
turned her into a recluse, living in a condo in West
Hollywood, where Lili Anolik tracked her down in 2012.
Anolik's elegant and provocative new book is equal parts
biography and detective story. It is also on dangerously
intimate terms with its subject: artist, writer, muse, and
one-woman zeitgeist, Eve Babitz."--|cProvided by
publisher.
600 10 Babitz, Eve.
648 7 1900-1999|2fast
650 0 Women authors, American|y20th century|vBiography.
650 0 Artists|zCalifornia|zLos Angeles|vBiography.
650 7 Artists.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00817559
650 7 Women authors, American.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01177210
650 7 ART / Popular Culture.|2bisacsh
650 7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing
Arts.|2bisacsh
650 7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures.|2bisacsh
651 0 Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)|vBiography.
651 7 California|zLos Angeles.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204540
651 7 California|zLos Angeles|zHollywood.|2fast
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