'Too L.A.' with Matthew Specktor, Chiara Towne, and Sandi Tan – Los Angeles

Book Soup hosts a group of writers and filmmakers—Matthew Specktor, Chiara Towne, and Sandi Tan—for a discussion of the life and legacy of Eve Babitz on the occasion of the publication of Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (But Some Were). 

Edited by Lili Anolik (Didion & Babitz, 2024), Too L.A. gathers Babitz's letters—in her words, "the kind of writing I do best"—missives to friends like Joseph Heller, Annie Leibovitz, Paul Ruscha, and Steve Martin. Fresh and frank, dashing and droll—the letters collected here are as highly spirited as they are acutely perceptive.