Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. -- Eve Babitz, Paperback Cooking / Wine East Harlem

East Harlem

and surely everything will look better from Paris

since Logan goes from charismatic to insufferable as soon as she agrees to join

others the West never fully understood

Wedge Wedgeman

Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. -- Eve Babitz, Paperback Cooking / Wine East HarlemNo 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. Slow Days, Fast Company is a full fledged and full bodied evocation of a bygone Southern California