Liz Brown

She just finished work on a picture called “Edge of the City”: “It’s so off-beat and real… and not like most pictures.” John Cassavetes plays bongos while Sidney Poitier grooves.

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 Eve [...]

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 recommend WFMU [...]