Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust
Author: Nathanael West
“Somehow or other I seem to have slipped in between all the ‘schools, ‘” observed Nathanael West the year before his untimely death in 1940. “My books meet no needs except my own, their circulation is practically private and I’m lucky to be published.” Yet today, West is widely recognized as a prophetic writer whose dark and comic vision of a society obsessed with mass-pro….Read More
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