Why Dianne loves this book
Eve's Hollywood by Eve Babitz was a tremendous influence on my own writing. Babitz understood that glamour is most interesting when it reveals something tender and human beneath the surface. Her Los Angeles feels intimate — restaurants, hotel rooms, swimming pools becoming stages where ambition and desire quietly unfold. I’ve always admired her light touch, her wit, and the way she observed without judging. She gave me permission to write about Hollywood — and myself — with style, honesty, and a little mischief.
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A legendary love letter to Los Angeles by the city's most charming daughter, complete with portraits of rock stars at Chateau Marmont, surfers in Santa Monica, prostitutes on sunset, and Eve's own beloved cat, Rosie.
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,…
