No one more than Eve Babitz can tell the thriving jungle that was Los Angeles

“It takes a certain level of innocence to appreciate LA,” he wrote. She was an anti Joan Didion, less serious and more vicious. But she is not a feminist icon, indeed, a conservative, albeit an uninhibited one. That today could not exist

Her most famous photo is undoubtedly the one in which she plays chess, completely naked, at nineteen, with an elderly Marcel Duchamp, inside the Pasadena art museum. Eve Babitz was a muse, she is known for her relationships – a love portfolio ranging from Harrison Ford to Jim Morrison, passing through Steve Martin and Annie Leibovitz, she designed some Buffalo Springfield album covers, but she was also, and perhaps above all, a Southern California singer, an autofiction writer capable of delineating a difficult and elusive city like Los Angeles.