Chapter One: “Daughters of the Wasteland” Tess Taylor

Tess Taylor

Dayan reflects on her complicated origins as she grows into a woman

Grace Pollock

An homage to our Angeleno heritage: palm trees

Ángel Bonomini translated by Jordan Landsman

Chapter One: “Daughters of the Wasteland” Tess TaylorWasteland is a word I dont understand, Eve Babitz writes in the opening chapter of her memoir Eves Hollywood. The curious remark works neither as a physical descriptiondue to the flowers and citrus trees she encounters all over her hometownnor as a cultural one, as L. A. has always been a humid jungle alive with seething L. A. projects. Eves Hollywood is in the mold of classic L. A. autobiographical essay collections, like those by Joan Didion or Anas