Black Swans: Stories

“”Babitz’s talent for the brilliant line, honed to a point, never interferes with her feel for languid pleasures.”” — The New York Times Book Review A new reissue of Babitz’s collection of nine stories that look back on the 1980s and early 1990s–decades of dreams, drink, and glimpses of a changing world. Black Swans further celebrates the phenomenon of Eve Babitz, cementing her reputation as the voice of a generation. With an introduction by Stephanie Danler, bestselling author of Sweetbitter . “”On the page, Babitz is pure pleasure–a perpetual-motion machine of no-stakes elation and champagne fizz.”” — The New Yorker —- ISBN: 9781640090507