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“I happen to know for an absolute fact that I am as beautiful now as most women ever hope to [be].” In an excerpt from Too L.A., Lili Anolik’s new collection of the novelist’s letters, Eve Babitz unleashes a fiery tirade against an unidentified boyfriend who dared to insult her shoes Dear Cory:I have been thinking about something you said to me—two things, actually, and rather than argue them out [only to] hear you say I’m “defensive,” which reduces me to 1956, when men played Jules Feiffer t...