Writer Brian Moore once said that despite its criticisms, Los Angeles is never provincial: “People in Southern California never look anywhere else in the world for instructions about what to think or how to behave.” And if there was ever a writer who reflected this regionally unashamed appreciation…

Eve Babitz chronicled L.A.’s hedonist heyday and enjoyed the party
By Scott Bradfield

January 18, 2019 at 08:00AM
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