Monthly Archives: March 2009
“something outrageous and grandiose”
That’s what Eve Babitz was craving at 15. Since reading Deborah Shapiro’s review of Eve’s Hollywood at The Second Pass I’ve been combing the internet for a copy of the “out-of-print 1974 commingling of fiction and memoir that chronicles the adventures of a young woman growing up and living in Los Angeles.” Shapiro’s account of [...]
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A Life of Flannery O’Connor
Flannery O’Connor, age two or three My own approach to literary problems is very like the one Dr. Johnson’s blind housekeeper used when she poured tea–she put her finger inside the cup. Here’s a link to my review of Flannery, Brad Gooch’s biography of Flannery O’Connor, in Newsday. If you’ve got some time, I highly [...]
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