Black Swans: Stories

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What’s captivating about Babitz’s particular mode of confession is that it’s anchored by an intuition that renders her environs both so enchanted and familiar. The black swan was a metaphor for all that could not exist, until of course, due to an intrepid sailor, the impossible became possible.

A new edition of Babitz's 1993 story collection, Black Swans, is out, full of glitzy, tipsy portraits of Los Angeles. Counterpoint has just republished Sex and Rage, which seems a wise move as the story still feels modern . I find it funny how this mentality is still going even now, and even more because really a woman is a hoe either way after a break-up or in any situation.Older and somewhat wiser than when she first met readers between the pages of Eve's Hollywood in 1974, Babitz here probes the causes and consequences of why the '60s and '70s were so thoroughly debauched .

If you’re still fine with reading a woman berate other women for their appearances, their makeup and perfume, or pit women against each other — overall be evil to women… the casual racism is truly sickening.Counterpoint Press has issued two others, Sex and Rage, a novel, and Black Swans, a book of stories. Babitz was living proof that rock-and-roll decadence also could be elegant and that muses could be the sharpest tacks in the room.