{"product_id":"slow-days-fast-company-the-world-the-flesh-and-l-a-paperback","title":"Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEve Babitz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMatthew Specktor\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated \"its own kind of moral laws,\" spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced seemingly everyone who was anyone in Los Angeles for a long stretch of the 1960s and '70s. One man proved elusive, however, and so Babitz did what she did best, she wrote him a book. \u003ci\u003eSlow Days, Fast Company\u003c\/i\u003e is a full-fledged and full-bodied evocation of a bygone Southern California that far exceeds its mash-note premise. In ten sun-baked, Santa Ana wind-swept sketches, Babitz re-creates a Los Angeles of movie stars distraught over their success, socialites on three-day drug binges holed up in the Chateau Marmont, soap-opera actors worried that tomorrow's script will kill them off, Italian femmes fatales even more fatal than Babitz. And she even leaves LA now and then, spending an afternoon at the house of flawless Orange County suburbanites, a day among the grape pickers of the Central Valley, a weekend in Palm Springs where her dreams of romance fizzle and her only solace is Virginia Woolf. In the end it doesn't matter if Babitz ever gets the guy--she seduces us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEve Babitz\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several books of fiction, including\u003ci\u003e Sex and Rage: Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eL.A. Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBlack Swans: Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. Her nonfiction works include \u003ci\u003eFiorucci, the Book\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTwo by Two: Tango\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTwo-Step, and the L.A. Night\u003c\/i\u003e. She has written for publications including \u003ci\u003eMs.\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e and in the late 1960s designed album covers for the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, and Linda Ronstadt. Her novel \u003ci\u003eEve's Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e is published by NYRB Classics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e Matthew Specktor\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eAmerican Dream Machine\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThat Summertime Sound\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a nonfiction book of film criticism. He is a founding editor of the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 30, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51987736297773,"sku":"9781681370088","price":19.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/Y3A4TnBYSkRCazdPVXBUVU9ENUJ1dz09.webp?v=1776183803","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/slow-days-fast-company-the-world-the-flesh-and-l-a-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}