This goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky likened the unsteady social world of fame to “the barge” in her novel Sex and Rage. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this prodigious lover-taker and Los Angeles socialite who was photographed nude while playing chess with Marcel Duchamp. She wrote the semi-fictionalized autobiography Eve’s Hollywood.
ANSWER: Eve Babitz
[10h] Sarah Kramer edited many of Babitz’s unpublished essays including her book-length expose of the Italian fashion brand Fiorucci into this 2019 collection, which was a finalist for the PEN Award.
ANSWER: I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz
[10e] This member of the “literary Brat Pack” helped repopularize Babitz’s work in the ‘90s. He wrote the controversial novel Less than Zero as well as a novel centering on serial killer Patrick Bateman.
ANSWER: Bret Easton Ellis (The second novel is American Psycho.)
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