Black Swans: Stories [Paperback]

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 Swansfurther celebrates the phenomenon of Eve Babitz, cementing her reputation as the voice of a generation.

With an introduction by Stephanie Danler, bestselling author ofSweetbitter.

On the page, Babitz is pure pleasurea perpetual-motion machine of no-stakes elation and champagne fizz. The New Yorker

[A] true original. The Boston Globe

Shes a natural. Or gives every appearance of being one, her writing elevated yet slangy, bright, bouncy, cheerfully hedonisticL.A. in it purest, most idealized form. Vanity Fair

Babitz's writing is also like the jacaranda tree in glorious bloombewitching an entire city, but all too brief. Los Angeles Review of BooksEVE BABITZis the author of several books of fiction, includingSex and Rage,Eves Hollywood, andSlow Days, Fast Company. Her nonfiction works includeFiorucci: The BookandTwo by Two. She has written for publications includingMs.andEsquire, and in the late 1960s, she designed album covers for the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, and Linda Ronstadt.Praise forBlack Swans

A Most Anticipated Book of the Year (The Millions)
A Best Book of the Year (MyDomaine)
1 of 15 Books That Are New (Or Newly Relevant) for the Summertime (The Lily)
1 of 14 New Paperbacks You Should Toss in Your Beach Bag (BuzzFeed)

This summer I plan to catch up with two writers. The first is Eve Babitz, whose memoirsEves HollywoodandSlow Days, Fast CompanyI could hardly admire more. Counterpoint Press has issued twolc8