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‘A spy in the land of the privileged’: why Eve Babitz’s cult Hollywood memoir still matters 50 years on
In the mid-50s, when Eve Babitz was 13 years old, she asked her mother, Mae, if she would buy her a leopardskin rug. “A real one, you know?” Babitz’s sister, Mirandi, reminisces on a video call from her home in Los Angeles – laughing at her elder sibling’s …