{"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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd 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.\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":46162085216442,"sku":"9781681370088","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0768\/5727\/8650\/files\/6j8wCbWIzd9781681370088.webp?v=1784081204","url":"https:\/\/thebookloversatlas.com\/products\/slow-days-fast-company-the-world-the-flesh-and-l-a-paperback","provider":"The Book Lover's Atlas","version":"1.0","type":"link"}