Eve Babitz didn’t just write about Los Angeles-she lived it in a way that made everyone else seem like they were doing it wrong. Parties, bad decisions, better anecdotes, and a kind of literary brilliance that felt so casual and effortless.

Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (But Some Were), edited by Lili Anolik and published by the New York Review of Books, pulls back the curtain on that life through the letters Babitz fired off over decades highlighting Babitz’s irrepressible appetite for people, places, and the particular glamour of fleeting moments.-funny, messy, cutting, and often a little too honest.

Letters include Joan Didion, Joseph Heller, Annie Leibovitz, Paul Ruscha, Anne Rice, Steve Martin, and many others appear in this first-of-its-kind collection.

We’re hosting an evening dedicated to those letters, read live by a rotating cast of special guests.

Expect stories about love, art, money, sex, fame, boredom, literary feuds and the strange mechanics of being young and interesting in a city built on illusion.

Come for the gossip, stay for the sentences.

Presented by LNZRT.

This is an 18+ event.