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Two by Two: Tango, Two-Step, and the L.A. Night

by Eve Babitz

Los Angeles after dark, in step

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Los Angeles after dark, in step

Across two years of dancing, Eve Babitz uses the city’s social dance scene as a way to observe Los Angeles nightlife and the people who gather within it. Foxtrot, tango, salsa, swing, lindy, and two-step provide the settings for a memoir that also sketches a subculture of late-night clubs, partners, flirtations, and shared rituals. The book’s scope connects individual encounters with a wider portrait of the city’s dancing life, making dance both its subject and a lens on urban social habits.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in memoirs about Los Angeles and its nightlife.
  • Readers curious about popular social dances and the communities around them.
  • Readers who enjoy books combining personal experience with cultural observation.

Themes

Dance and social ritualsLos Angeles nightlifeDesire and flirtationMemoir and subculture

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Book overview

From Eve Babitz, the iconic chronicler of Los Angeles and author of Slow Days, Fast Company and Eve's Hollywood, comes a seductive, irreverent plunge into the city's obsession with dancing.

Over two years, nine pairs of shoes, and countless partners, Babitz moves through foxtrot, tango, salsa, swing, lindy, and two-step, capturing the obsessive dancers, late-night clubs, flirtations, and rituals of Los Angeles nightlife.

Part memoir, part portrait of a subculture, Two by Two is a witty, seductive celebration of dance, desire, and the pleasure of losing yourself in both.
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