20th’s Substack
Short pieces and musings from Los Angeles. Eve Babitz meets Bret Easton Ellis with flashes of Dorothy Parker. Or a whole lot of wishful thinking!
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 10
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- Sep 20, 2026
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- Aug 21, 2026
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Dead to Me (opens the original)
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I’m So Tired of Men (opens the original)
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Gertrude Stein Invents a Girl (opens the original)
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Orchids Are Sexual Con Artists (opens the original)
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We Can’t Escape the Level (opens the original)
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