Nathanael West

The Day of the Locust (1983)

As some of you know, I came dangerously close to packing it in and moving to Los Angeles this winter. I'm from California originally, but the other California, up the Five a ways and then off to the left.... Where I grew up people speak of LA in the same disgusted, dismissive, and morbidly fascin...

Miss Lonelyhearts / The Day of the Locust (1969)

To be honest, I was expecting something lighter. Here was the hook: Miss Lonelyhearts, an advice columnist in the early 30’s, is really a man. Sounds like a role for Jimmy Stewart at his gosh-darned chirpiest, doesn’t it? But the first few pages put a different image in mind – it was Pottersv...

Miss Lonelyhearts and A Cool Million (2000)

The Dream Life of Balso Snell (2004)