Big Table

Big Table Episode 5: Eve Babitz

Episode Summary

Lili Anolik, whose Vanity Fair profile of the reclusive writer, re-started the Eve Babitz revival, discusses her Eve biography, Hollywood Eve (published by Scribner) and, as the subtitle suggests, “The Secret History of LA."

Episode Notes

Lili Anolik, whose Vanity Fair profile of the reclusive writer, re-started the Eve Babitz revival, discusses her Eve biography, Hollywood Eve (published by Scribner) and, as the subtitle suggests, “The Secret History of LA."


For our reading this episode, writer and critic Molly Lambert reads from Eve’s latest collection of unpublished later work, I Used to Be Charming (published by NYRB)

Music by Mike Melvoin