Didion and Babitz Random House lacking in confidence

lacking in confidence

Author-illustrator Peter H

Juan Manuel

told in David Almond’s inimitable voice and playfully illustrated

Didion and Babitz Random House lacking in confidenceWhen Eve Babitz died in 2021, her crumbling Hollywood apartment concealed a remarkable discovery: a stack of sealed boxes untouched for decades. Inside was a lost worldletters, artifacts, and intimate fragments of a dazzling, turbulent era that once pulsed through 7406 Franklin Avenue. That unassuming house in a faded corner of Hollywood was a cultural pressure cooker in the late '60s and early '70s, where artists, musicians, writers, and misfits