Last Wednesday night, two gossips met at the Hammer Museum to do what they do best. But this time, they were on stage, in front of an audience of over a hundred people hungry to hear their stories.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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In the Literary It-girl universe, there is no larger chasm than that between Joan Didion acolytes and Eve Babitz fanatics. Didion, who covered American countercultures with a raised eyebrow, feels a ...

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 ...