Babitz, for the uninitiated, was a rock-and-roll and literary scene queen in LA in the '70s and '80s. While she's somewhat of a recluse all these decades later, rarely giving interviews or producing new writing, she's enjoyed something of a resurgence in popularity over the last 10 years. That's when reissues of her books and a new biography, Hollywood's Eve ($26), penned by Vanity Fair contributor Lili Anolik, hit the shelves. (Notably, Black Swans ($16) was also in a stack of literary-cool-kids-approved books gifted to Kendall Jenner by her agent, which the model shared on Instagram Stories back in 2019.)
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