Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.
By: Lili Anolik
3.58
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Los Angeles in the 1960s and 70s was the pop culture capital of the world—a movie factory, a music …
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1. Play It As It Lays
By: Joan Didion , David Thomson
3.92
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of a… read more
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"The letter is still in my makeup box but I am careful not to read it unless I am drunk"-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"Carter and Helene still believe in cause-effect. Carter and Helene also believe that people are either sane or insane."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is “nothing."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"She could remember it all but none of it seemed to come to anything. She had a sense the dream had ended and she had slept on."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
2. The White Album
By: Joan Didion
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermat… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- biography
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"Somewhere between the Yolo Causeway and Vallejo it occurred to me that during the course of any given week I met too many people who spoke favorably about bombing power stations."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image..."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a disp…"-Joan Didion, The White Album
3. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
By: Joan Didion
4.19
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's S… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- biography
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"Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"There is a common superstition that “self-respect"-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
4. South and West: From a Notebook
By: Joan Didion
3.69
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking two ex… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I've never been any place I wanted to go."-Joan Didion, South and West: From a Notebook
"It was the kind of Sunday to make one ache for Monday morning."-Joan Didion, South and West: From a Notebook
"The devastation along the Gulf had an inevitability about it: the coast was reverting to its natural state."-Joan Didion, South and West: From a Notebook
"The time warp: the Civil War was yesterday, but 1960 is spoken of as if it were about three hundred years ago."-Joan Didion, South and West: From a Notebook
5. Eve's Hollywood
By: Eve Babitz
3.44
Format: 213 pages,
Journalist, party girl, bookworm, muse, artist: by the time she'd hit thirty, Eve Babitz had been a… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
6. Sex and Rage
By: Eve Babitz
3.87
Format: 260 pages,
The popular rediscovery of Eve Babitz continues with this very special reissue of her novel, origin… read more
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- womens
7. The Coral Sea
By: Patti Smith
3.93
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
In linked pieces Patti Smith tells the story of a man on a journey to see the Southern Cross, who i… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- biography
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8. Black Swans
By: Eve Babitz
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In nine stories that look back on a decade of dreams, drink, and stoned youth turning Republican, B… read more
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10. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
By: Cookie Mueller
4.49
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet—from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from bi… read more
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- biography
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12. Another Side of Bob Dylan: A Personal History on the Road and off the Tracks
By: None , None
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A Los Angeles TimesBest seller! August 2014 marks 50 years since Bob Dylan released his fourth albu… read more
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13. M Train
By: Patti Smith
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, … read more
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- music
- biography
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"We sometimes eclipse our own dreams with reality."-Patti Smith, M Train
"He picks the lock of her dreams with her own hairpin."-Patti Smith, M Train
"Those were mystical times. An era of small pleasures."-Patti Smith, M Train
"I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works."-Patti Smith, M Train
14. What Are People For?
By: Wendell Berry
4.34
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the twenty-two essays collected here, Wendell Berry, whom "The Christian Science Monitor "called… read more
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15. Let Me Tell You What I Mean
By: Joan Didion
3.84
Format: 149 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces t… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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"Superstition prevails, fear that the fragile unfinished something will shatter, vanish, revert to the nothing from which it was made."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"In short I had no past, and, every Monday-Wednesday-Friday at noon in Dwinelle Hall, it seemed increasingly clear to me that I had no future."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"I began to make notes. I began to write down everything I saw and heard and remembered and imagined. I began to write, or so I thought, another story."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"Well, there it was. I got out fast then, before anyone could say "serenity" again, for it is a word I associate with death, and for several days after that meeting I wanted only to be in places where…"-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
16. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
By: Eve Babitz
4.10
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique… read more
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"The only time men fall in love with roses is on douche commercials."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"Well, who is he?' I asked, the first time I saw Mary with his glazed expression. 'Money,' Mary said."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"It's very easy to stand L.A., which is why it's almost inevitable that all sorts of ideas get entertained."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
17. On Women
By: Susan Sontag
3.61
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on ag… read more
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"Dividing time into Past, Present, and Future suggests that reality is distributed equally among three parts, but in fact the past is the most real of all. The future is, inevitably, an accumulation o…"-Susan Sontag, On Women
18. Down the Drain
By: Julia Fox
4.40
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
Julia Fox is famous for many her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film Uncut G… read more
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- memoir
- pop culture
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I want to love him but I often find myself wishing he could just be an asshole all the time. This way I wouldn't have all these inner battles with myself. I learn to navigate my way through shattered…"-Julia Fox, Down the Drain
19. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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20. Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.
By: Lili Anolik
3.58
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Los Angeles in the 1960s and 70s was the pop culture capital of the world—a movie factory, a music … read more
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- music
- history
- biography
- memoir
- film
- pop culture
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
- audiobook
21. Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
By: Elizabeth Beller
3.86
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The life and legacy of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., are reexamined in thi… read more
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- pop culture
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
By: Griffin Dunne
4.19
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more
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"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
23. I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz
By: Eve Babitz
4.15
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
An NYRB Classics Original With Eve’s Hollywood Eve Babitz lit up the scene in 1974. The books th… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
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- womens
"As far as I'm concerned, you can't have fun in a high neckline - I don't care how witty you are."-Eve Babitz, I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz
"I'm dying and use words like gaunt . When I weigh 125, which is almost but not quite what Vogue might be able to deal with, I look as old as Jeanne Moreau when she's just murdered someone."-Eve Babitz, I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz
"When I weigh 130, my friends think I'm dying and use words like gaunt . When I weight 125, which is almost but not quite what Vogue might be able to deal with, I look as old as Jeanne Moreau when she…"-Eve Babitz, I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz
24. Noise Floor (The Vinyl Detective, #7)
By: Andrew Cartmel
4.16
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The Vinyl Detective plunges into the world of electronic dance music in his seventh adventure. Expe… read more
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- audiobook
25. The World According to Joan Didion
By: Evelyn McDonnell
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential w… read more
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26. Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
By: Rosecrans Baldwin
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A provocative, exhilaratingly new understanding of the United States’ most confounding metropolis—n… read more
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27. Slouching Towards Los Angeles: Living and Writing By Joan Didion's Light
By: Steffie Nelson
3.82
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
In The White Album, Joan Didion famously wrote that “a place belongs forever to whoever claims it h… read more
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28. Tennis Lessons
By: Susannah Dickey
3.43
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
You know you're strange and wrong. You've known it from the beginning. This is the voice that r… read more
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29. The Goodby People (McNally Editions)
By: Gavin Lambert
3.87
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
First published in 1971, The Goodby People is perhaps the greatest novel ever written about post-Ma… read more
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30. The Duke in His Domain
By: Truman Capote
3.80
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
Now Brando looked at people with assurance, and with what can only be called a pitying expression, … read more
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31. Succession – Season One: The Complete Scripts
By: Jesse Armstrong
4.86
Format: None pages, ebook
The complete, authorised scripts, including deleted scenes, of the multiple award-winning Successio… read more
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