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

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It is notable for how openly it blurs the lines between fiction and autobiography; a rhetorical strategy that, too, seems appropriate for a book that concerns itself explicitly with a city possessed and obsessed by artists, musicians, and storytellers. slow days, fast company’ is essentially a biographical essay collection all about babitz’s life in 1960s-70s los angeles. The women slid masks over their faces, the subject changed, the man said, "What are all you girls doing out here? most of her writing consists of nothing but surface-level descriptions of la and society and passionless prose.

this book is so funny, so striking, gripped me from the first line, not even 200 pages but feels immersive, like everything, just excellent, eve babitz forever.

A review by the LA Review of Books noted, “In a 1977 article in the Los Angeles Times, when Babitz was asked if her characters in this book are real or not, she said, 'I sort of stick people together. Eve knows success, and how it twists people so they becoming boring "celebrities" who rely on drugs and booze to get through the day. babitz is the perfect breezy 70s LA hot girl, and her narration style is so light easygoing that you rly feel like you’re a sexy 20-something doing quaaludes and seducing men and having threesomes and then going home and sitting on your cute porch with some coffee the next morning.

There is just something about reading and watching films depicting 60s and 70s California that makes it all so entrancing. She is the author of several books including Eve's Hollywood; Slow Days, Fast Company; Sex and Rage; Two By Two; and L. i loved the way she described Shawn and Mary, and it kind of made me fall in love with both of them, the descriptions were truly beautiful and i can't imagine how they felt when they read that and then being able to say that someone captured you the way Eve did. S. Directed by Gabe Polsky, the film stars Nicolas Cage as the frontiersman Miller and Fred Hechinger. Eve Babitz (1943–2021) was the author of several books of fiction, including Sex and Rage: Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time, L.additionally, the people she met and her relationships are too bland and paper-thin for anyone to care about them at all. the characters didn’t feel like actual individuals and living people due to their lack of characterization.

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