I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz

Title: I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz Author: Babitz, Eve ISBN: 9781681373799 Publisher: NYRB Classics Published: 2019 Binding: Quality Language: English Condition: New Essays 1210140 Publisher Description: Previously uncollected nonfiction pieces by Hollywood's ultimate It Girl about everything from fashion to tango to Jim Morrison and Nicholas Cage. With Eve's Hollywood Eve Babitz lit up the scene in 1974. The books that followed, among them Slow Days, Fast Company and Sex and Rage, have seduced generations of readers with their unfailing wit and impossible glamour. What is less well known is that Babitz was a working journalist for the better part of three decades, writing for the likes of Rolling Stone, Vogue, and Esquire, as well as for off-the-beaten-path periodicals like Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing and Francis Ford Coppola's short-lived City. Whether profiling Hollywood darlings, getting to the bottom of he