All About Eve
May 11, 2018
3 minutes
By Paul Wilner
As California authors go, Eve Babitz is the anti-Joan Didion. A firm proponent of the pleasure principle, she substitutes hedonistic celebrations — drenched in sex, sun and drugs — for gloomy references to the Donner Pass or Raymond Chandler lines about murderous Santa Ana winds.
Like a Southern California version of Andy Warhol protege Edie Sedgwick, Babitz cut a swath through the decadent late 1960s and early ’70s L.A. — designing album covers, conducting wild affairs with the great and near great and generally making the scene.
But unlike Sedgwick, she had talent as well
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