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Lucie Elven: LA Non-Confidential, 17 June 2021
I Used to Be Charming
by Eve Babitz.
NYRB, 448 pp., £14.99, January 2020,978 1 68137 379 9 Show More
by Eve Babitz.
NYRB, 448 pp., £14.99, January 2020,
“... 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 ... ”