Tove Ditlevsen 1917-1976

“Always to have sympathy

klassesamfundet har frem-tvunget mellem ham og hans far

despite her husband's cautions

hvor hun befandt sig

Didion & Babitz Tove Ditlevsen 1917-1976Eve Babitz died on December 17, 2021. Found in the wrack, ruin and filth of her apartment, a stack of boxes packed by her mother decades before. The boxes were pristine, the seals of duct tape unbroken. Inside, a lost world, centred on a two story rental in a down at heel section of Hollywood in the sixties and seventies. 7406 Franklin Avenue was the making of one great American writer: Joan Didion, a mystery behind her dark glasses and cool