“Dear Joseph Heller, I am a stacked eighteen-year-old blonde on Sunset Boulevard. I am also a writer.” Eve Babitz wrote this postcard in 1961. I’ve always found it a funny, provocative bit of literary history. Heller’s novel Catch 22 was published that year—he would have been a reasonable person for an ambitious young writer to contact.
Goodbye Eve Babitz
Goodbye Eve Babitz
Goodbye Eve Babitz
“Dear Joseph Heller, I am a stacked eighteen-year-old blonde on Sunset Boulevard. I am also a writer.” Eve Babitz wrote this postcard in 1961. I’ve always found it a funny, provocative bit of literary history. Heller’s novel Catch 22 was published that year—he would have been a reasonable person for an ambitious young writer to contact.