#eve babitz

[katiecoyle]

What I Read This Month: July

VH1, groupies, what everyone wore, the noble maraca, Intro to Creative Writing

I'm probably too mean about Davy Jones in this one.

[lilbowchic]

[lisamarie-vee]

[nobrashfestivity]

Crazy Eve Babitz letter to Joseph Heller but I got it from somebody on another platform and lost track of who they were. I feel bad when that happens

[hautemacabre]

stacked: an unearthed draft of book reviews from the archives

[eccentricks]

After the fourth phone conversation with one manager, Terry got up, went across the shambled living room, took a cushion off the couch, and socked it repeatedly.

“All I meet now are businessmen with hair in their noses," she shouted, bellowed, "when all I want are nice, young men with good manners!"

“Who doesn't?" I asked. "I know three right off the bat who are dying to meet you."

“You do?" She stopped socking the cushion.

“Yeah, and I'm having a party on Thursday. They'll all be there."

“Oh, I can't go. They're taking me to Cannes."

“They ought to fix women up the same way they do men out of town," I said. "It's not fair."

“Aw, but that's not how I want to do it. I don't want... I want... You know… I want romance. Mystery. What I want now is a nice young man, with good manners," she paused to consider. "Who gives great head."

—Eve Babitz on Ronee Blakley (alias Terry Finch) in “Slow Days, Fast Company,” 1977.

[70sgroovy]

linda ronstadt photographed by eve babitz, 1974

[beperfectliveforever]

first read of the summer.