Bøker av Eve Babitz

No one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated “its own kind of moral laws,” spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced seemingly everyone who was anyone in Los Angeles for a long stretch of the 1960s and ’70s. One man proved elusive, however, and so Babitz did what she did best, she wrote him a book. Slow Days, Fast Company is a full-fledged and full-bodied evocation of a bygone Southern California that far exceeds its mash-note premise. In ten sun-baked, Santa Ana wind–swept sketches, Babitz re-creates a Los Angeles of movie stars distraught over their success, socialites on three-day drug binges holed up in the Chateau Marmont, soap-opera actors worried that tomorrow’s script will kill them off, Italian femmes fatales even more fatal than Babitz. And she even leaves LA now and then, spending an afternoon at the house of flawless Orange County suburbanites, a day among the grape pickers of the Central Valley, a weekend in Palm Springs where her dreams of romance fizzle and her only solace is Virginia Woolf. In the end it doesn’t matter if Babitz ever gets the guy—she seduces us.

A glittering coming-of-age tale set in '70s Los Angeles

Eve Babitz si bok Late dagar, ville netter kom ut første gongen i 1977. Her møter vi ei kvinne med gnistrande livsappetitt og fortreffeleg observasjonsevne. Gjennom ti kapittel følgjer vi dragnaden hennar mot reiser, rus, californiske solnedgangar og ei mengde ulike folk. Vi treffer forfattarar, druedyrkarar, basketballspelarar og sosietetsfolk, filmstjerner som er fortvila over eigen suksess og italienske femmes fatales meir fatale enn Babitz sjølv.Ingen av Eve Babitz (f. 1943) sine bøker frå 1970- og 1980-talet slo gjennom då dei kom ut. Dei havna i skuggen av imaget hennar som it-jente, og temaa ho skreiv om - Los Angeles, skjønnheit, sex - blei avfeia som overflatiske. På 2010-talet har ho derimot blitt feira for den sanselege og viltre stilen sin. Late dagar, ville netter er ein moderne klassikar i grenselandet mellom fakta og fiksjon - ei feiring av byen Los Angeles og av overskridande liv.

Previously uncollected nonfiction pieces by Hollywood's ultimate It Girl about everything from fashion to tango to Jim Morrison and Nicholas Cage. With Eve's Hollywood Eve Babitz lit up the scene in 1974. The books that followed, among them Slow Days, Fast Company and Sex and Rage, have seduced generations of readers with their unfailing wit and impossible glamour. What is less well known is that Babitz was a working journalist for the better part of three decades, writing for the likes of Rolling Stone, Vogue, and Esquire, as well as for off-the-beaten-path periodicals like Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing and Francis Ford Coppola's short-lived City. Whether profiling Hollywood darlings, getting to the bottom of health crazes like yoga and acupuncture, remembering friends and lovers from her days hobnobbing with rock stars at the Troubadour and art stars at the Ferus Gallery, or writing about her beloved, misunderstood hometown, Los Angeles, Babitz approaches every assignment with an energy and verve that is all her own. I Used to Be Charming gathers nearly fifty pieces written between 1975 and 1997, including the full text of Babitz's wry book-length investigation into the pioneering lifestyle brand Fiorucci. The title essay, published here for the first time, recounts the accident that came close to killing her in 1996; it reveals an uncharacteristically vulnerable yet never less than utterly charming Babitz.