6/50 Joan Didion's Essay Collections & 7/50 My Eve Babitz collection
These 2 should go together, both recently died in the same year (2021), their writings can have a cat-fight in my head for the next 2 years.
It looks like I have all or most of her stuff, and wasn't she a looker back in the day? I'll save her fiction for another year. So here is the chronological line up of her essay books, I've been referring to Wikipedia for the info.
1. Slouching Towards Bethlehem -- 1968 2. The White Album -- 1979 3. Salvador -- 1983 4. Miami -- 1987 5. After Henry -- 1992 6. Political Fictions -- 2001 7. Where I Was From -- 2003 8. The Year of Magical Thinking -- 2005 9. Blue Nights -- 2011 10. South and West: From a Notebook -- 2017 11. Let Me Tell You What I Mean -- 2021
bio -- The Last Love Song by Tracy Daugherty
7/50 Eve Babitz
1. Eve's Hollywood -- 1974 2. Slow Days, Fast Company, The World, The Flesh and The Devil -- 1977 3. Sex and Rage: Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time -- 1979 4. L.A. Woman -- 1982 5. Black Swans: Stories -- 1993 6. Two by Two: Tango, Two-step, and the L.A. Night -- 1999 7. I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz -- 2019
@bookerdana That's good to hear, Play It As It Lays looks good! Starting Slouching Towards Bethlehem, what a story to kick it off, some Seventh Day Adventist lady cooked her hubby in a car, was seeing another 7th Day-er, like a Dateline expose from the 60s!!
