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18 Books You Should Read This August
Uproot: Travels in Twenty-First-Century Music & Global Digital Culture, Jace Claton (FSG Originals) Jace Clayton’s creative work is rigorous, challenging, and eye-opening. That’s as true for the...
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Slow Days, Fast Company
“Darling: I know you don’t care about the art of the novel but you might like the part about Forest Lawn.” It’s well known that for something to be fiction it must move right along and not meander...
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It Girl on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
“Sex and Rage is less controlled, and in my view, a more interesting work from Babitz. Jacaranda shares some of her biographical markers but not all of them, giving her room to experiment. And though...
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10 Essential Books That Capture Los Angeles in All Its Sublime, Beautiful...
Living in Los Angeles does something to you. Maybe it’s the continuous sunlight, the threat of earthquakes, the Santa Ana winds—or maybe it just takes up so much space in our imagination that LA can...
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18 Books You Should Read This August
Uproot: Travels in Twenty-First-Century Music & Global Digital Culture, Jace Claton (FSG Originals) Jace Clayton’s creative work is rigorous, challenging, and eye-opening. That’s as true for the...
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Slow Days, Fast Company
“Darling: I know you don’t care about the art of the novel but you might like the part about Forest Lawn.” It’s well known that for something to be fiction it must move right along and not meander...
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10 Essential Books That Capture Los Angeles in All Its Sublime, Beautiful...
Living in Los Angeles does something to you. Maybe it’s the continuous sunlight, the threat of earthquakes, the Santa Ana winds—or maybe it just takes up so much space in our imagination that LA can...
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The Bottomless Generosity of the Writer’s Memoir
When I am struggling to write, there are a few different texts I reach for—old favorites, of course, the pages already soft and dogeared; or the books of writers I wish to emulate, margins peppered...
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Meet the Writer Who Chased Eve Babitz All Over Hollywood
Lili Anolik wasn’t planning to write a book about Eve Babitz. The idea was to put together a series of pieces on the scene in 60s and 70s Los Angeles—the film critic Pauline Kael and novelist Joan...
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6 Audio Books to Get You Through the Oscars
Whether you watch the Academy Awards for the fashion, for the love of cinema, or to find out if you’ve won your office pool, this month’s (and Lit Hub’s first-ever) audio books round-up takes a look at...
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Joanna Scutts on How We Find—and Lose—Women Writers
How does a woman writer get lost—and found? Brigid Hughes’ story of rediscovering the Chicago writer Bette Howland follows a now-familiar path of chance encounter, pursuit, and recovery. A few years...
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On Movies and How to Write About Them
Lili Anolik and Geoff Dyer got together to discuss old movies and new books (their own, Hollywood’s Eve and Broadsword Calling Danny Boy respectively). * Lili Anolik: In 1941, Preston Sturges made...
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Eve Babitz on the Time She Played Chess Nude with Marcel Duchamp
In 1963 Walter Hopps forsook the Ferus Gallery, and even though it was only to become director of the Pasadena Art Museum, someone should have noticed how fast he was moving. He was only 28 and...
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Lili Anolik on Eve Babitz, LA, and the Myth of Objectivity in Biography
Big Table is a half-hour arts program/podcast, an exploration of art and culture as told through interviews with authors and artists, conducted and curated by writer, editor, and publisher J.C. Gabel...
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Every book Audrey Hope reads in the Gossip Girl reboot (so far).
If you’re a Millennial like me who can’t resist trashy teen dramas as a coping mechanism, you’re gleefully hate-watching the Gossip Girl reboot on HBO Max. I’m sorry to say that thus far, the new show...
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Eve Babitz, artist and muse of Los Angeles, has died at 78.
Eve Babitz, known for her joyful, sharp, confessional portrayals of Los Angeles and her personal adventures there, died last Friday of complications of Huntington’s disease at U.C.L.A. Medical Center...
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The Huntington has acquired Eve Babitz’s archive.
Last December, the literary world mourned the loss of essayist Eve Babitz—joyful, sharp observer of Los Angeles. Now, The Huntington Library in San, Marino has announced it has acquired Babitz’s...
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Lili Anolik on the Complicated Relationship Between Eve Babitz and Joan Didion
Lili Anolik is the guest. She is the author of Hollywood’s Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A., out now from Scribner. Subscribe and download the episode, wherever you get your podcasts!...
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