Eve Babitz

The five kinds of party girls you find in literature.

(A taxonomy.)

 
By Brittany Allen  March 31, 2025
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By Book Marks  November 15, 2024
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Eve and Joan: Exploring the Tumultuous Friendship of LA’s Literary Ladies

By Lili Anolik  November 12, 2024
The Hub

A syllabus for fans of You Must Remember This.

By Brittany Allen  April 12, 2024
The Annotated Nightstand

The Annotated Nightstand: What Aisha Sabatini Sloan Is Reading Now and Next

By Diana Arterian  February 22, 2024
Bad Behavior

My Feral Shelf: On Building a Personal Library of Bad Behavior

By Jennifer Lucy Allan  November 14, 2023
Los Angeles

Liska Jacobs on Leaving Los Angeles, City of “Impermanence and Unreliability”

By Liska Jacobs  July 19, 2022
Lit Hub Questionnaire

Writing Advice from Rachel Yoder: Take a Break, Hug a Tree

By Literary Hub  July 6, 2022
Literary Icons

California State of Mind: Searching for Didion and Babitz in Literary Los Angeles

By Marianne Eloise  July 5, 2022
Love

From Eve Babitz to Raven Leilani, Readings on Solipsistic, Transformative Love

By Lillian Fishman  May 25, 2022
Otherppl

Lili Anolik on the Complicated Relationship Between Eve Babitz and Joan Didion

By Otherppl with Brad Listi  March 16, 2022
The Hub

The Huntington has acquired Eve Babitz’s archive.

By Walker Caplan  March 11, 2022
The Hub

Eve Babitz, artist and muse of Los Angeles, has died at 78.

By Walker Caplan  December 20, 2021
The Hub

Every book Audrey Hope reads in the Gossip Girl reboot (so far).

By Vanessa Willoughby  August 10, 2021
Big Table

Lili Anolik on Eve Babitz, LA, and the Myth of Objectivity in Biography

By Big Table  June 4, 2021
Eve Babitz

Eve Babitz on the Time She Played Chess Nude with Marcel Duchamp

By Eve Babitz  October 9, 2019
Criticism

On Movies and How to Write About Them

By Literary Hub  June 17, 2019
Rediscoveries

Joanna Scutts on How We Find—and Lose—Women Writers

By Joanna Scutts  May 13, 2019
Audiobook

6 Audio Books to Get You Through the Oscars

By James Tate Hill  February 22, 2019
New in Nonfiction

Meet the Writer Who Chased Eve Babitz All Over Hollywood

By Zan Romanoff  January 10, 2019
Essay

The Bottomless Generosity of the Writer’s Memoir

By Larissa Pham  April 18, 2018
Feature

10 Essential Books That Capture Los Angeles in All Its Sublime, Beautiful Darkness

By Liska Jacobs  November 8, 2017
Excerpts

Slow Days, Fast Company

By Lit Hub Excerpts  August 29, 2016
What to Read

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By Literary Hub  August 2, 2016
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