Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist and author Eve Babitz photographed in 1997 in Hollywood. (Paul Harris/Getty Images) This story was originally published in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eve Babitz on Sunset Boulevard in 1980. The writer and Hollywood reveler died Friday at 78. (Los Angeles Times) Eve Babitz, the ...

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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HOLLYWOOD'S EVE: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A. By Lili Anolik. Scribner. 277 pages. $26. In 1961, a precocious young artist named Eve Babitz wrote a letter to "Catch-22" novelist Joseph ...

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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 ...

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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 ...