Eve babitz aesthetic

The late L.A. literary lioness's artwork, photography and unpublished papers to be made available to public for first time.

Geisha on Instagram: "black swans is a short story collection featuring a ‘fictionalized’ eve babitz and with every ‘fiction’ work of hers, i’ve always wondered if it’s a good thing how most of the time i forget (or choose to forget) i’m reading fiction. it’s almost an impossible task for me to separate eve from her fiction work but only because i feel like i’m all too familiar with her, and her voice, like nonfiction and fiction eve are but one and the same, because truly there can only be…

The collection spans from 1943 to 2011, documenting the professional and personal life of the LA author and cultural figure through manuscripts, original works of art, journals, photographs, and correspondence

Technically she’d spoken to me, though she’d refused to engage in dialogue other than of the Mad Hatter variety, each sentence unconnected from the sentence that came before.

In a trove of never-published archival material, their fraught relationship comes to electrifying life.

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