And speaking of women, might I recommend Eve Babitz's jaw-droppingly brilliant essay "All This and The Godfather Too" (contained in I USED TO BE CHARMING). We'll never see such a principled burning of bridges with a jugular grip like this in film media ever again. It's glorious, I tell you! God, Eve Babitz was great.

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Jackpot! I found a clip of Eve Babitz calling Joan Didion when the latter appeared on C-SPAN on May 7, 2000.

Remarkably, there are almost no clips of Babitz on YouTube. But you can get a pretty good sense from her voice on who she was and how she seduced so many lovers.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4814416/user-clip-babitz-calling-didion

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reading “for tourism and a good night’s sleep: the beginning of the pines-to-palms highway” by j. win wilson and wilson howell in between “on earth we’re briefly gorgeous” and “eve’s hollywood” (｡-_-｡)

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