I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz

Eve Babitz is the author of several books of fiction, including Eve's Hollywood and Slow Days, Fast Company, both published by NYRB Classics. Her other nonfiction works include Fiorucci, the Book and Two by Two: Tango, Two-Step, and the L.A. Night. She has written for many publications, including Ms. And Esquire, and in the late 1960s designed album covers for the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, and Linda Ronstadt.

Molly Lambert is a writer from and in Los Angeles. She has written for publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, and GQ, and was a staff writer at the websites Grantland and MTV News. She hosts the podcast Molly’s Sleazy Friends and co-hosts Night Call.

Sara J. Kramer is the managing editor of NYRB Classics.

Introduction
 
All This and The Godfather Too
My God, Eve, How Can You Live Here?
Needles in the Land of the Fruits and Nuts
My Life in a 36DD Bra, or, The All-American Obsession
No Onions
On Not Being a Tomboy
Losing Weight Made Me A New Person—A Novelist
Shopping
Sunday, Blue Pool, Sunday
Venice, California
Honky-Tonk Nights: The Good Old Days at L.A.’s Troubadour
A Californian Looks at New York
Anna’s Brando
The Girl from Gold’s Gym
The Tyranny of Fashion
Skin Deep
Tiffany’s Before Breakfast
Out of the Woods
Sunset Tango
The Path to Radiant Pain
Sober Virgins of the Eighties
Attitude Dancing
Ronstadt for President
Blame it on the VCRs
Rapture of the Shallows
The Sexual Politics of Fashion
Gotta Dance
The Soup Can as Big as the Ritz
Jim Morrison Is Dead and Living in Hollywood
I Was a Naked Pawn for Art
Life at Chateau Marmont: The Sequel
They Might Be Giants
Great Legs
Chairmen of the Board
Party at the Beach
Hippie Heaven
Billy Baldwin
The American Scene
A City Laid Out Like Lace
Hello Columbus
Nicolas Cage
Girl’s Town
The Manson Murders
Jackie’s Kids
Keeping Time in Ojai
Santa Fe: Angels We Have Heard on High
Love and Kisses
Scent of a Woman
I Used to Be Charming
Fiorucci: The Book