From then on, or so it seemed, she was at the center of LA life, in particular the art and music scenes. Perhaps her most famous moment was when she posed for a photograph, nude, playing chess with Marcel Duchamp. Vera complained about the couture and said that Paris was “the only city ... where anyone sensible would want to live. Since then this publisher has put out two of her books (Eve’s Hollywood and Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.), which is why this book is subtitled The Rest of Eve Babitz. And if the prose is as good—as funny, generous and original—as what you can read here, then I shall be getting those books too.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 12, 2019 11:15 UTC