Each seminar combines the deep pleasure of reading an exceptional novel with the depth of a college-level lecture. We are delighted to announce that this Series will take place in person at Kepler’s for the first time in three years. Please join us! For our out-of-town attendees, we will still have an option to attend virtually.
Slow Days, Fast Company: the World, the Flesh, and L.A., Eve Babitz
If you haven’t read Eve Babitz—yet another new-to-Kimberly writer—you must join this Seminar. A notorious figure in Hollywood in the 60s and 70s, Babitz writes prose that is incredibly evocative, fresh, lovely and strangely real. Slow Days (1977) consists of ten sketches that hang together beautifully, somewhere between memoir and fiction.
A visual artist who designed record album covers, an acclaimed writer who is often compared to Didion, goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky, and one-time lover of Jim Morrison, Ed Ruscha, Steve Martin, and Harrison Ford, Babitz would be interesting to read even if her prose WASN’T unique and so crazy good. The seminar will compare Babitz, briefly, to Dorothy Baker (Cassandra at the Wedding) and to fellow Californian Joan Didion.
Join Kimberly for a deep dive to see why this brief memoiresque novel—perfect for a late summer read—is so enduringly great.
There are several ticket options that include all Seminars and books, book with purchase (either shipped to home or picked up at Kepler’s Books), or Seminar only. The book should be read prior to the meeting date.