Black Swans: Stories"Babitzs talent for the brilliant line, honed to a point, never interferes with her feel for languid pleasures." The New York Times Book Review A new reissue of Babitzs collection of nine stories that look back on the 1980s and early 1990sdecades of dreams, drink, and glimpses of a changing world. Black Swans further celebrates the phenomenon of Eve Babitz, cementing her reputation as the voice of a generation. With an introduction by Stephanie

a notoriously difficult interviewee

This book features selections from over a dozen albums

He travels into Jerusalem

that life was there to be caught

" Times Higher Educational Supplement

Patrick Cockburn is a Middle East correspondent for the Independent and has worked previously for the Financial Times

A darkly comic novel set on the lower slopes of the Los Angeles literary world

a hunger for exploring the past

or Ex Machina

gets James Brown stuck in his head

Men are beginning to become pregnant using artificial wombs that sit outside of their bodies like balloons

Inside the photographic studio responsible for some of the most iconic images of ’60s and ’70s Italian design