I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz by Eve Babitz (2019)

Hippie Heaven In the sixties going to thrift shops and dressing up in the styles of another era became de rigueur: we began recycling the past and using it to bring romance, drama, and “it’s happening” into the room with us. For very little money, girls could wear great clothes of ( Read more... )

I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz by Eve Babitz (2019)

All This and The Godfather Too 5. THE STREET ( Read more... )

Chouette by Claire Oshetsky (2021)

OneIt’s time for me to be in the kitchen with the other wives, who are all busy with their little tasks, shredding cabbage and slicing beefsteak tomatoes into slabs and so on. Now and then the other wives try to engage me in conversation. But these other wives speak in concrete word-bricks, whereas I prefer to ( Read more... )

Revenge of the She-Punks: A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot by Vivien Goldman (2019)

1. Girly Identity: Who Be Me?
LINEUP & TRACK LISTING: 1. Poly Styrene/X-Ray Spex, “Identity” (UK, 1976 ( Read more... )