Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. (New York Review Books Classics)

One of the truly original writers of 20th-century Los Angeles.—Kevin Dettmar, The Atlantic 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 Her writing took multiple forms: novels, essays, memoirs...