Manuscripts

Sex and Rage

Description: Typescript drafts and early versions of Sex and Rage, including some drafts marked "original" and others under the titles "One Too Many" and "If This Diamond Ring Don't Shine." Some drafts include handwritten notes and revisions.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1976-1979
Call number: mssBabitz
Creator: Babitz, Eve(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Eve Babitz through Glenn Horowitz Bookseller with support from Steve Martin and Anne Stringfield, November 2021.; gift of Mirandi Babitz, December 2024.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.; SEALED: Box 19: Brian G. Hutton correspondence and Eve Babitz 1969-1970 personal journal closed until January 1, 2040, at family's request.

Sex and Rage

Manuscripts

Typescript drafts and galley proofs of Sex and Rage, some with handwritten notes; and a few related notes from Victoria Wilson, Babitz's editor at Knopf.

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Scattered and incomplete drafts. Pages appear to be parts of Sex and Rage and L.A. Woman, as well as short stories and articles. Materials are not all identified and not further arranged; they were foldered into groups to facilitate use.

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Sex & rage : advice to young ladies eager for a good time : a novel

Rare Books

"The popular rediscovery of Eve Babitz continues with this very special reissue of her novel, originally published in 1979, about a dreamy young girl moving between the planets of Los Angeles and New York City. We first meet Jacaranda in Los Angeles, a beach bum, part-time painter of surfboards, sun-kissed and beautiful, semi-involved with a married man, glittering among the pretty creatures, blithely drinking Pink Ladies with any number of tycoons, unattached and unworried in the pleasurable mania of California. We follow her as she rises from the mists to the discovery that she's twenty-eight, jobless, with no sense of purpose; that her wild friendships with Gilbert and Max and Etienne might not be as real as they seem. So she pries herself away from this immensely seductive place and moves to New York, to seriousness and work, to meet the agents of her new world. Sex and Rage delights in its starry, sensuous, dreamlike narrative and its spontaneous embrace of fate, and work, and of certain meetings and chances. We witness Jacaranda moving beyond the tango of sex and rage into the open challenge of a defined and more fulfilling expressive life. Sex and Rage further solidifies Eve Babitz's place as a singularly important voice in Los Angeles literature - haunting, alluring, and alive"--

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Writings

Manuscripts

Drafts and galleys of Babitz's books Slow Days, Fast Company (1977); Sex and Rage: Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time (1979); L.A. Woman (1982); Black Swans (1993); and Two By Two: Tango, Two-Step, and the L.A. Night (1999); as well as the unpublished manuscripts for Travel Broadens (1963) and drafts of the unrealized Bonnie and Clyde (2001) and Russia (2001). Articles and stories include drafts of early work for publication in Rolling Stone, Coast magazine and others; and stories later published in the collection I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz (2019). Also includes several screenplays, incomplete drafts, and copies of clippings and publications featuring Babitz's published work.

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L.A. Woman

Manuscripts

Typescript drafts of L.A. Woman, some with handwritten notes and revisions.

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L.A. Woman

Manuscripts

Typescript drafts and galleys of L.A. Woman, some with handwritten notes and revisions.

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