This story was originally published in October 2019. Iconic Los Angeles writer Eve Babitz died Friday at 78. In the dedication to her first book, “Eve’s Hollywood,” Eve Babitz dryly thanked Joan ...

Eve Babitz on Sunset Boulevard in 1980. The writer and Hollywood reveler died Friday at 78. (Los Angeles Times) Eve Babitz, the author known for her hedonistic chronicles of Los Angeles drawn largely ...

In Los Angeles, in 1947, 14-year-old Susan Sontag would take the trolley to the “enchanted crossroads” of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue to listen to records and read Partisan Review, ...

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Eve Babitz, a writer and once-and-future “it” girl closely identified with the 1960s and early-’70s in Los Angeles, has died at 78. Relatives confirmed her death on social media as well as to the ...

In 1961, a precocious young artist named Eve Babitz wrote a letter to “Catch-22” novelist Joseph Heller, seeking help getting her book published. “Dear Joseph Heller,” it began, “I am a stacked ...

Try to remember when you didn’t know about Eve Babitz. I first read Eve in the context of a photography book by the artist Zoe Crosher. Zoe’s work isn’t about the city per se. Through photography and ...

The epigraph to Eve’s Hollywood, Eve Babitz’s 1972 memoir in essays, is a snippet of conversation that the Los Angeles writer conceivably had with multiple interlocutors over the years: “Where are you ...

In 1961, a precocious young artist named Eve Babitz wrote a letter to “Catch-22” novelist Joseph Heller, seeking help getting her book published. “Dear Joseph Heller,” it began, “I am a stacked ...

This story was originally published in October 2019. Iconic Los Angeles writer Eve Babitz died Friday at 78. In the dedication to her first book, “Eve’s Hollywood,” Eve Babitz dryly thanked Joan ...

Eve Babitz, the author known for her hedonistic chronicles of Los Angeles drawn largely from her own life, died Friday at 78. According to her sister, Mirandi Babitz, the cause of death was ...