Books like Table for Two
Six short stories set mostly in New York and a novella that follows Eve Ross from Rules of Civility to 1938 Hollywood, each turning on a chance meeting or a decision made over a meal.
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
A young writer looks back on the wartime year he lived downstairs from Holly Golightly, a Manhattan café-society girl with a past she keeps rewriting and a cat she refuses to name.
Rules of Civility
A young woman in Depression-era New York navigates the city's elite hotels and speakeasies, building a life through wit, nerve, and a single evening's lucky encounter.
The Seventh Veil of Salome
In 1950s Hollywood, Vera Larios, an unknown young Mexican actress, is cast as Salome in a lavish biblical epic, a part that Nancy Hartley, a blonde starlet who has worked for years to be noticed, wanted for herself.
Goodbye, Columbus
A young Jewish man in 1950s New Jersey navigates his first encounters with class, sex, and the gap between the suburban dream and its spiritual emptiness.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Reclusive Hollywood legend Evelyn Hugo chooses an unknown magazine writer to tell her life story, seven marriages, a hidden love and the machinery of fame, and the writer wonders why she was chosen.
The Last Tycoon
A brilliant Hollywood producer in the 1930s burns himself out running a studio while falling in love. Left unfinished at Fitzgerald's death.
City of Girls
In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris, sent down from Vassar, goes to live with her aunt Peg, who runs a crumbling midtown theatre called the Lily Playhouse, and plunges into a world of showgirls, playboys and nights that last until morning.
Eve's Hollywood
Babitz's first book, a collection of short pieces on growing up in Hollywood, from Hollywood High to the rock clubs of the Sunset Strip, by someone who thinks Los Angeles is the best place on earth.
Hollywood
Bukowski's semi-autobiographical account of surviving Hollywood while his novel Barfly becomes a movie.
Sex and Rage
Jacaranda Leven, a surfer and party girl who drifts through Los Angeles at the end of the 1970s, starts writing seriously and moves to New York, and has to decide what she will give up to keep going.
Three Junes
Three Junes in the lives of the McLeods, a Scottish family: the widowed father on a tour of Greece, his gay son Fenno, a bookseller in New York, and a young artist they both come to know.
Miss Lonelyhearts
A male newspaper columnist who answers desperate letters as Miss Lonelyhearts in Depression-era New York takes his readers' suffering to heart, while his cynical editor mocks his growing religious crisis.