"A blurb is you asking (read begging) a writer with a lofty reputation to bestow upon your book a few spontaneous words of ecstasy."
"If I did get an endorsement, I decided, it would be an endorsement that was also a repudiation, and from a writer both beyond the pale and beyond the grave, Eve Babitz."
"I was flattered that Babitz thought I'd killed her. It made me - me, with my too-ready smile, my wouldn't-hurt-a-fly ponytail - feel fearsome. Like a literary assassin."
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