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“‘They’re shooting the party scene outside at night,’ I was told.”

I Used to Be Charming by Eve Babitz

January 3, 2020 by vel veeter 1 Comment

This is a kind of omnibus collection of nonfiction, personal essays, analysis, interviews, and odds and ends from Eve Babitz famous for being a novelist and fiction writer, for playing chess with Marcel Duchamps while naked, and for being associated with a host of different people throughout the 60s and 70s. I have read two of her fictional works and I liked them just fine, but I really like this collection. It’s weird and free-wheeling in some great ways. There’s a bunch of really wonderful […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: eve babitz, I Used to Be Charming

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:7 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: eve babitz, I Used to Be Charming ·
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