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 ...

It happens maybe once in a writer’s life, if it happens at all: A narrative path is established, and then without warning, it swerves in a new direction that feels like a gift. This is how Lili Anolik ...

In Hollywood’s Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A., Lili Anolik approaches her project—distilling the life of writer and Los Angeles socialite Eve Babitz—with a naked admiration that at ...

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 ...

The epigraph to Eve’s Hollywood, Eve Babitz’s 1972 memoir in essays, is a snippet of conversation that the Los Angeles writer conceivably had with multiple interlocutors over the years: “Where are you ...

“She’s like, ‘Can you imagine? I could’ve been dead and all this would’ve happened and I’d never have known?’” For Spellman Silverman, this moment is not merely a long time coming—it’s a ...

To say in 2026 that Eve Babitz has been “rediscovered” is to flatter everyone involved. It implies that a ledger has finally been balanced, that something once undervalued has been properly priced, ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Staring into a coffee spoon at Canter’s, with the deli’s famous ceiling ...

Eve Babitz, a writer and once-and-future “it” girl closely identified with the 1960s and early-’70s in Los Angeles, has died at 78. Relatives confirmed her death on social media as well as to the ...

In her memoir “Slow Days, Fast Company” (1977), Eve Babitz described the joys of “4/60 air conditioning,” which is what you get when you’re on the freeway with all four windows down and you’re ...

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 ...