Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (But Some Were)

Pore over the letters of Eve Babitz—queen of the witty, gossipy, and thoroughly engrossing missive.

Joan Didion, Joseph Heller, Annie Leibovitz, Paul Ruscha, Anne Rice, Steve Martin, and many others appear in this first-of-its-kind collection.

Eve Babitz was a pure product of Los Angeles. The goddaughter of the avant-garde composer Igor Stravinsky, she made the scene of just about every midcentury California scene there was: from the artists of the Ferus Gallery forging a wholly West Coast a...