#evebabitz

[sparklingsonderingdeer]

[eternelles-ritournelles]

Photographie de Marcel Duchamp et Eve Babitz posant pour le photographe Julian Wasser pendant la rétrospective Duchamp au Pasadena Museum of Art, 1963

[mybookbath]

Black Swans was my first Eve Babitz book and I really enjoyed it, enough in fact to recommend it to all of you! It is a collection of nine fictionalised auto-biographical stories set in 1980s Los Angeles. In my opinion, Babitz captured L.A. perfectly, alluring yet tragic. She discusses topics such as AIDS, sex, drugs, jealousy, the Chateau Marmont, the L.A. riots, writing and even refers to Virginia Woolf on a few occasions. 💗 💗 This striking pink and green edition was rereleased earlier this month by @counterpointpress and it has given me a serious case of #californiadreaming. * * * * * * * * * #blackswans #evebabitz #losangeles #shortstories #joandidion #belletristbabe #pinkbooks #stancemuse @stancemuse #stancesocks @stancesocks @fbombtrading #theuncommonthread #socksunday #sockgame #booksandsocks

[strandbooks]

What writer are you crushing on? This week, our Writer Crush is Eve Babitz for Sex and Rage 📚 Originally published in 1979, this reissued novel is about Jacaranda, a California beach bum who moves to NYC to start a new life 🏝✈️🗽. Alluring and haunting, this novel will absorb you until the end. Pick it up on the main floor! •• #evebabitz #sexandrage #writercrush #wcw #writercrushwednesday #summerreading #bookstagram #readstagram (at Strand Book Store)

[lilliescult]

Made this about my phone, I still haven't let her go -lily

[loveclub24]

Eve Babitz

I want to be like Eve Babitz, I want to take the city by storm

I want to be sprawling, I want to extend myself into every crevice, every street corner and live in every part of it 

I want my desire to be seen as beautiful, I want my lust for life (as she would say, Ms. Lana Del Rey) to be so apparent it radiates through every sentence

That makes it out of my full lips; I want to be seen, I want to feel beautiful in a way no one person can fully comprehend, can fully give me 

But I also want to be still, I want to live in a house and feed mouths of hungry 

Children, so docile, so simple and true

I want the mess, I want the yelling, I want all the complicated, too,

Lighting candles at Christmastime, kissing my partner and looking at what we’ve made and say: 

Ours. That is what this all is. And we made it; together

I yearn for all of it. Like Sylvia Plath told me I would, back in high school

I do want every part of the tree, I want each branch, I want to taste all of its fruit 

Why is the thought of not tasting, of not seeing the vista of the valley from every height, so terrifying to me

And yet to have all of it, feels completely impossible? 

I was raised with the notion I could do everything, and maybe I can, but will everything ever be enough? 

If I can have both, if I can walk down every path, will it still not be enough of one of the “things”? 

As I creep later in my 20s, the fear grows deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole. What if the love, and the loss, I’ve experienced aren’t enough

What if I want to experience more love, and then still, let it all go again?

Am I too old? 

Will I ever be satisfied? 

Maybe, I should just freeze my eggs. 

[adamgnade]

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Recommended if you like: Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney, Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives, Sex and Rage by Eve Babitz, Bright Eyes, the Cure, Mexican food, committing crime, being a fucking bad-ass, and Patti Smith’s Just Kids.

Praise for the writing of Adam Gnade:

“Lucid, life-affirming prose from an empathetic master.” -Yannis Philippakis of the band Foals

“Adam Gnade is a writer who can capture what it feels like to feel everything.” -Dana Margolin of the band Porridge Radio

[trappedinawebb]

“She really believed that the great religions of the world so far had come into being before anyone had grown up by the ocean. She believed in the ocean. [She] believed that the ocean was a giant lullaby god who could be seduced into seeing things her way and could bring forth great waves. "Great waves, great waves, great waves," [she] used to chant on bland days. On days when there were great waves, she would in silence bow her head to the sea and thank it.” #EveBabitz #SexAndRage https://www.instagram.com/p/CgIb6zmrc8R/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=