Regardless, however, of one’s personal opinion on the act of writing something like “Blonde ... predicated on a letter from Babitz to Didion found in Babitz’s apartment after her death. Anolik ...

Plath was born in 1932 in Boston and died by suicide in London in 1963, those are two facts no biographer can edit or place a sense of spin on. Yet there is so much of her story which remains a ...

Eve Babitz's 'Slow Days ... it is genuinely funny - Babitz's quips and humour lift off the page. Babitz writes insightfully about many aspects of life: love, men and women ('women are prepared ...

In this Los Angeles exclusive, Babitz’s family and friends recall the swaggering prose and lust for life that defined "L.A.’s Colette." Eve Babitz’s love for Los Angeles was pathological.

Her first book, 1974’s Eve’s Hollywood, is a heady evocation of life at the ... [was] intensely personal, and the emotions are so volatile and passionate.” It’s as if Babitz has managed ...

Both things are true of Didion and Eve Babitz ... sacred, but Babitz's had to be dug out and reappraised with what we know now about life and living. In all of this though, Babitz didn't just ...

Both things are true of Didion and Eve Babitz. As the book details ... the style of her books and her personal style had to match.