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I used to be charming : the rest of Eve Babitz / Eve Babitz ; edited by Sara J. Kramer ; introduction by Molly Lambert.
Author
Babitz, Eve
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Uniform title
Essays.
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York : New York Review Books, [2019]
©2019
Description
xiv, 433 pages ; 21 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PS3552.A244 A6 2019
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Los Angeles (Calif.)
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Social life and customs
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20th century
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Los Angeles (Calif.)
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History
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20th century
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Babitz, Eve
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Writer of introduction
Lambert, Molly
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Editor
Kramer, Sara J.
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Essays
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essays
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Series
New York Review Books classics
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Summary note
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.
Contents
My life in a 36DD bra, or, the all-American obsession
Losing weight made me a new person; a novelist
Shopping
Venice California: boom-town by the sea
Honky-tonk nights
Californian looks at New York
Anna's Brando
The girl from gold's gym
The tyranny of fashion
Tiffany's before breakfast
Ingrid Bergman: my story
Out of the woods
The path to radiant pain
Sober virgins of the 80's
Attitude dancing
Ronstadt for president
Blame it on the VCRs
The sexual politics of fashion
Why you should
Jim Morrison is dead and living in Hollywood
I was a naked pawn for art
Life at Chateau Marmont: the sequel
They might be giants
Great legs
Chairmen of the board
Party at the beach
Hippie heaven
Billy Baldwin
American scene
A city laid out like lace hello Columbus
Nicholas Cage
The Manson murders
Jackie's kids
Love and kisses
Scent of a woman
In a trance again
Fiorucci
I used to be charming .
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ISBN
9781681373799 ((alk. paper))
1681373793 ((alk. paper))
LCCN
2019021978
OCLC
1100441110
Other standard number
40029620577
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