Nathanael West

Reading L.A.: Admirers of Los Angeles, warts and all

2011-12-27 16:33:00

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Happy birthday, Raymond Chandler!

2011-07-23 16:35:43

<![CDATA[Happy birthday, Raymond Chandler!]]>

James Franco options Steve Erickson's 'Zeroville'

2011-03-31 16:34:50

<![CDATA[James Franco options Steve Erickson's 'Zeroville']]>

Your favorite L.A. book, Round 3: Ross Macdonald, Octavia E. Butler, Thomas Pynchon, Nathanael West

2011-04-06 16:35:16

<![CDATA[Your favorite L.A. book, Round 3: Ross Macdonald, Octavia E. Butler, Thomas Pynchon, Nathanael West]]>

Your favorite L.A. books: runoff until Monday. Then the final...

2011-04-07 16:34:57

<![CDATA[Your favorite L.A. books: runoff until Monday. Then the final...]]>

Your favorite L.A. book runoff: Last chance to vote

2011-04-11 16:34:32

<![CDATA[Your favorite L.A. book runoff: Last chance to vote]]>

Poll: What's your favorite book about Los Angeles?

2011-04-12 16:35:34

<![CDATA[Poll: What's your favorite book about Los Angeles?]]>

Brick-and-mortar treasures in Tinseltown

2010-10-24 00:00:00

Like an old movie set, original Hollywood was dismantled ages ago, leaving what appears to be scant trace of its hallowed roots: The Hollywood Hotel (where Louis B. Mayer and a long list of silent movie stars stayed). The Hollywood Brown Derby (where...

Book review: 'Three Delays' by Charlie Smith

2010-09-05 00:00:00

Three Delays A Novel Charlie Smith Harper paper Perennial: 368 pp., $14.99 Billy and Alice are a tripped-out Scott and Zelda, a Jane Austen romance via Hunter S. Thompson, a Romeo and Juliet on the burned-out edge of the baby boom. Billy has no doubts...

Paperback Writers

2009-08-15 17:26:26

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Authors & Ideas: A talk with Daniel Clowes about the likable curmudgeon 'Wilson'

2010-05-30 00:00:00

He's the kind of guy who waxes rhapsodic about his love for the human race but curses people who don't smile at his dog. He's full of odes to the sweep of life and won't stop sharing them with the strangers he accosts in coffee shops. He has no job and no...

'Lonely Hearts' by Marion Meade

2010-03-07 00:00:00

Lonelyhearts The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney Marion Meade Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 392 pp., $28 They were an odd couple: a sardonic, secretive Jewish guy from New York and an outspoken, outgoing Irish gal from Cleveland....

A photo of Nathanael West with the manuscript for "The Day of the Locust."

2009-08-15 17:18:04

The Black Maria Gallery in Atwater Village challenged 20 artists to envision a fictional painting -- titled The Burning of Los Angeles -- that Nathanael West described in his 1939 classic, The Day of the Locust.

2008-03-19 15:22:03