In Los Angeles, in 1947, 14-year-old Susan Sontag would take the trolley to the “enchanted crossroads” of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue to listen to records and read Partisan Review, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a 1939 essay, the critic Philip Rahv argued that there have been two main types in American literature: the solemn and ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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An entire generation of literary-minded women has not stopped telling itself stories influenced by master storyteller Joan Didion. The same, alas, cannot be said of Eve Babitz, a Hollywood bad girl ...
Photo of Karina Longworth, courtesy of Emily Berl; Simon & Schuster "Like many a youngish woman interested in cultural history, celebrity and the sex lives of the mid-to-late 20th century fabulous, ...
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