Being Eve Babitz: L.A.’s Ultimate Chronicler

Book Review

Source of Image: The New York Times

When Janis Joplin O.D.’d one Sunday at the Landmark Motel, John Carpenter wrote a piece for the L.A. Free Press which clung pretty much to the theory, “What else is a Janis Joplin going to do on a Sunday afternoon alone in L.A.?”

At the time I liked the sound of it and thought, “Yeah, what is a Janis Joplin supposed to …