Blog: The Sly Oyster

It was 70 years ago that Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein, better known to you and I as Nathanael West, published The Day of the Locust. A new edition of the book is being paired up with the other seminal West tome, Miss Lonelyhearts ( New Directions , $11.95 with a foreword from Jonathan Lethem) and if you've never read either, then do so. Both are highly required reading and still relevent to today's world. The Day of Locusts is a pretty perfect slice of the perverse Hollywood underbellyand still burns like a [...]