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"AA was the social scene of all time… All of L.A. was there: And the last straw was different for everybody.
My friend Connie said she had to fuck two midgets before she knew it was time to join."

“The Rodeo Drive was my favorite. It was movie stars galore and a nonstop party. Bobby Neuwirth [musician, former road manager of Bob Dylan] ran it. He used to say he was in AA to recover from terminal hip-ness.

i believe it that her letters are some of her best writing so this book offers something really unique and special in that way

P.S. Sitting around warching my facher die of what I’m going to die of is a hell of a strain on my shallow nature.

Joe, I mean, you've seen me and know I simply can't complain, it wouldn't be fair, stacked the way I am.

Because most books I read nowadays have dreary, sordid people who seem downright dreary and sordid, and the only fascinating thing about them is how the writer could have stuck to it all that time.

“I’m not conveying the full light-to-dark spectrum of her feelings about Joan. Am conveying dark-to-darker only.”
like why is it written like this

And though Morrison wasn't, in her estimation, an artist, he somehow was, in her estimation, an artist.

some bs

"[I'd] begun telling rock 'n' roll stars I hated rock 'n' roll and nobody is that cute," she wrote.

As it happens l am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language, and I am not optimistic about children who settle for saying, to indicate that their mother and father do not live together, that they come from 'a broken home.’

To be viewed as serious was vital for a woman artist—still is vital, I’d argue—since men artists were—and are—just looking for an excuse to condemn or dismiss.

“and she finds faded sheets of lined notebook paper in his desk, completely written over with the American name (I had once told her) he’d given himself but never once used: George Washington Park.”

i’ll cry

So he wants me to come to Oklahoma, drop everything and marry him and live in Oklahoma. Only, shit! Heaven forbid-Oklahoma! My God! So it turns out I can't do it.

and she randomly included so many details ab herself and covid?

this author is psycho
why does she hate her kids and why is she a freak for eve babitz

i liked the repetition of journey and the last pages were very well written

names are too similar

He was sobbing, it would have been said, as though his heart would break.
But I felt that it was my heart which was broken.

this guy sucks 😭✌️

“What kind of room do you think Giovanni should be living in?”

I laugh. The three dark heads on the beach search for more flat stones. 'First time I've seen him in years." Twenty-one years.
'Ah?
'Yeah.'
I love how fast women get things.