Black Swans: Stories

'Babitz's 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 Babitz's collection of nine stories that look back on the 1980s and early 1990s--decades of dreams, drink, and glimpses of a changing world. Black Swans further celebrates the phenomenon of Eve Babitz, cementing her reputation as the voice of a generation. With an introduction by Stephanie Danler, bestselling author of Sweetbitter. 'On the page, Babitz is pure pleasure--a perpetual-motion machine of no-stakes elation and champagne fizz.' --The New Yorker '[A] true original.' --The Boston Globe 'She's a natural. Or gives every appearance of being one, her writing elevated yet slangy, bright, bouncy, cheerfully hedonistic--L.A. in it purest, most idealized form.' --Vanity Fair 'Babitz's writing is also like the jacaranda tree in glorious bloom--bewitching an entire city, but all too brief.' --Los Angeles Review of Books