Sunday, March 8, 1970 Mrs. Dunn says her next book is going to be even more depressing than her last but that she has a feeling that she’s going to reach total despair, thus breaking through to the other side of total heaven (she hopes).

For those of us (I mean me) who have a love/hate relationship with #Babitz, this #ParisReview except from her 1969/70 diary is a real trip! Not sure if a diarist can be charged with namedropping, but she lets 'em plummet with panache.

A certain writer she calls Mrs. Dunn appears a few times: