Name: I Used to be Charming: The Rest of eve Babitz (New York Review Books Classics)
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Author: Eve Babitz
ISBN: 9781681373799

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I Used to be Charming: The Rest of eve Babitz (New York Review Books Classics)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Eve Babitz

Introduction by

Molly Lambert

Illustrated by

Sara Kramer

Publisher

New York Review of Books

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

448

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1 x 12.4 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9781681373799

Synopsis "I Used to be Charming: The Rest of eve Babitz (New York Review Books Classics) "

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.

Eve Babitz

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Eve Babitz (Los Angeles, 1943 – Los Angeles, 2021) was a visual artist and American writer, author of five novels and two non-fiction works. She collaborated with Vogue, Rolling Stones, and Esquire, and designed album covers for bands like The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, and singer Linda Rondstadt. From a young age, she was surrounded by the stars of the era. Her father, a musician at 20th Century Fox, played with musicians of the stature of Nat King Cole, and her mother was an artist of French origin. Her godfather, the composer Igor Stravinsky, secretly passed her whiskey glasses under the table after she turned thirteen, while her godmother taught her how to properly eat caviar. Charles Chaplin, Greta Garbo, or Pablo Picasso were also family friends. Despite these influences, Babitz discarded a career in cinema or music because her passion was books. Brilliant in her studies, she chose to train away from the perfection of the youth of Hollywood High. In 1963, she spent a season in New York, where The Beatles' agent introduced her as "the best girl in America." She dedicated herself to partying with Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono, or the couple formed by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, a key reference for her. Babitz suddenly disappeared from public life in 1997, after suffering severe burns due to a cigarette that ignited on her skirt while driving. The reissue of her books has revalued the importance of her work. Literatura Random House has published The Other Hollywood, a memoir book that Babitz defines as a "confessional novel," in which the author narrates her youthful experiences surrounded by artists, rock stars, LSD trips, and the dream of a city that was her reason for being.

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