Books like Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
12 books with a reading profile close to Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. by Eve Babitz. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
Yossarian slept here
by Erica Heller
memoir, narrative
Erica Heller’s memoir documents her upbringing as the daughter of Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22, within the Apthorp apartment building in Manhattan.
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2
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
memoir, narrative
Gabrielle Hamilton chronicles her unconventional path from a chaotic childhood in rural Pennsylvania to owning Prune, a tiny, celebrated restaurant in New York City.
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3
Blue Highways
memoir, narrative
After losing his teaching job and his marriage in the same day, William Least Heat-Moon outfitted a Ford Econoline van to navigate the United States exclusively via backroads—the thin blue lines on old Rand McNally maps.
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4
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
memoir, narrative
William Finnegan chronicles his lifelong obsession with surfing, moving from his childhood in California and Hawaii to his global travels as an adult.
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5
Animal
by Lisa Taddeo
memoir, narrative
Joan, a woman living in Los Angeles, witnesses a man commit suicide in front of her during a tense restaurant confrontation.
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6
Relato de un náufrago
memoir, narrative
Luis Alejandro Velasco, a sailor on the destroyer Caldas, falls into the Caribbean Sea after heavy cargo breaks loose during a storm.
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7
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
by Kate Beaton
memoir, narrative
Kate Beaton chronicles her time working manual labor jobs at remote mining camps in northern Alberta to pay off her student loans.
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8
Priestdaddy
memoir, narrative
Patricia Lockwood, a poet, moves back with her husband into her parents' house in a Kansas City rectory.
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9
Little Weirds
by Jenny Slate
memoir, narrative
Jenny Slate’s collection of lyrical essays centers on the internal reclamation of her house and spirit following a painful divorce.
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10
The Basketball Diaries
by Jim Carroll
memoir, narrative
Jim Carroll's memoir draws on diaries he kept as a teenager in 1960s New York, between ages twelve and sixteen.
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11
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
memoir, narrative
Alexandra Fuller outlines her upbringing in 1970s and 80s Rhodesia, Malawi, and Zambia during a period of violent decolonization.
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12
Everything Sad Is Untrue
memoir, narrative
Khosrou, called Daniel, is a twelve-year-old Iranian refugee living in a small town in Oklahoma.
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