Slow Days, Fast Company The World, the Flesh, Psychological Fiction are explored with a tenderness

are explored with a tenderness that breathes gently from the characters on the page

and indeed this collection

Into their circle comes Rosemary Hoyt

She would get a clear and tender material from which she could shape a world'

There are Heroes - and then there are Greek Heroes

Slow Days, Fast Company The World, the Flesh, Psychological Fiction are explored with a tendernessNo one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated its own kind of moral laws, spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced seemingly everyone who was anyone in Los Angeles for a long stretch of the 1960s and 70s. One man proved elusive, however, and so Babitz did what she did best, she wrote him a book. Slow Days, Fast Company is a full fledged and full bodied evocation of a bygone Southern California