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Welcome to the Other People podcast.

I'm Brad Listy here in Los Angeles, California.

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Today on the program, we will be remembering the life and work of author Eve Babitz, who died this past December at the age of

78. I will be in conversation with Lily Anilic, a contributing editor for Vanity Fair magazine,

and the author of a book called Hollywood's Eve, Eve Babets, and the Secret History of L.A. So clever, right? It's like mock dumb, it's inside the role and outside the role. But of course, people are stupid. They don't really get the joke, and she'd get treated like she was like a bimbo, right? Even chose that root, you know, and at some ways, it's like just as another woman, you know, and I'm like, oh, Eve, you know, why, why would you, why would you make life just so impossible for yourself? I'm like, people are awful, people don't ever really get it. But I admire that about her. It was so brave, always, always courageous. That is Lily Anilic, author of the book, Hollywood's Eve Babbitts in the secret history of L.A.

Eve Babbitts was a lifelong Los Angelino, born here, raised here, and ended her days here just a few months ago after a long period of declining health and a battle with Huntington's disease.

Babbitts was a contemporary of Joan Didion, and she is an essential figure in the literary history of Los Angeles.

She is also a person and an artist whose influence extends far beyond books, often in surprising ways.

She's one of these rare figures who seems to have functioned as a kind of cultural weather vein in her day,

particularly in her 20s and 30s, when she seemed to be everywhere and know everyone.

So right now I'm going to play some audio of Eve Babbitts in her own voice,

recorded back in 2018 by Lili Annalik.

In this clip, you're going to hear Eve Babette's remembering how she introduced Jim Morrison,

one of her former lovers and the lead singer of the doors, to the artist Andy Warhol.

I ran into Jim on the street in the village, and I knew him in L.A. I could as far spot him across the village. And I knew him in L.A.

I could as far as

spot him across the village.

You know, we fell into

each other's arse because we were

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