Eve Babitz
"One of the truly original writers of 20th-century Los Angeles." —Kevin Dettmar, The Atlantic
"Eve Babitz was Los Angeles' greatest bard. Promiscuous but discerning, the bombshell with a brain bonded with Joan Didion and bedded Jim Morrison… Babitz is finally getting the literary comeback she deserves." —Lili Loofbourow, The Week
“Los Angeles-born glamour girl, bohemian, artist, muse, sensualist, wit and pioneering foodie Eve Babitz . . . reads like Nora Ephron by way of Joan Didion, albeit with more lust and drugs and tequila . . . Reading Babitz is like being out on the warm open road at sundown, with what she called, in another book, '4/60 air conditioning'—that is, going 60 miles per hour with all four windows down. You can feel the wind in your hair.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times
"Eve Babitz is to prose what Chet Baker, with his light, airy style, lyrical but also rhythmic, detached but also sensuous, is to jazz." - Lili Anolik, Vanity Fair
Recognition
Slow Days, Fast Company — New York Times Book Review, 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years (2019), New York Times, Best Books About California
I Used to Be Charming — Longlisted, PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (2020)
Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent — Named to the Los Angeles Times' best summer books of 2026, and W Magazine's 16 Must-Read Books for Summer 2026