Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. food leaving a trail leading towards

leaving a trail leading towards career criminals and powerful men

part detective story

or simply want to enjoy the prose of a legendary writer

portrays once again how the past is never really past

Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. food leaving a trail leading towardsNo 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