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“... When Eve Babitz​ was growing up in Los Angeles in the 1950s, ‘the only thing in the county art museum that was the least bit alluring to me and my sister was the Egyptian mummy, half unwrapped so you could see its poor ancient teeth. As children, we both decided this would be the way to go, petrified and put in a museum, immortal ...”

“... dinner, Stein threw herself off the balcony of her apartment on the Upper East Side.The writer Eve Babitz was Californian in the way Mao Zedong was Chinese or Billy Connolly is Scottish – for a living. Serially a model, a photographer, a spirited memoirist, a groupie and one of those irrepressible joint-rollers-to-the-stars, ...”