Novels and Other Writings: The Dream Life of Balso Snell, Miss Lo

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The Dream Life of Balso Snell 1
Miss Lonelyhearts 55
A Cool Million 127
The Day of the Locust 239
Other Writings
Euripides - A Playwright 393
"Throughout the Hole in the Mundane Millstone" 397
Some Notes on Violence 399
Some Notes on Miss L. 401
Business Deal 403
Soft Soap for the Barber 407
Unpublished Writings and Fragments
The Impostor 411
Western Union Boy 425
Mr. Potts of Pottstown 429
The Adventurer 445
Three Eskimos 456
Burn the Cities 458
Tibetan Night 461
Proposal to the Guggenheim Foundation 465
Good Hunting, A Play in Three Acts 467
Before the Fact, A Screen Play 621
"A Cool Million": A Screen Story 745
Untitled Outline 755
Letters
To Beatrice Matheiu, April 12, 1930 769
To The New York World-Telegram, October 20, 1931 769
To William Carlos Williams, late 1931 770
To Milton Abernethy, April 26, 1932 772
To William Carlos Williams, c. April 1932 773
To William Carlos Williams, May 13, 1932 775
To Minna and Milton Abernethy, February 17, 1933 777
To Minna and Milton Abernethy, March 24, 1933 777
To Minna and Milton Abernethy, April 11, 1933 778
To Minna and Milton Abernethy, May? 1933 779
To Edmund Wilson, July 25, 1933 780
To Minna and Milton Abernethy, July 27, 1933 781
To F. Scott Fitzgerald, September 11, 1934 782
To Bennett Cerf, May? 1938 782
To Bennett Cerf, June 7, 1938 784
To Bennett Cerf, July 11, 1938 785
To Josephine Conway, September 19, 1938 786
To Josephine Conway, October 21, 1938 788
To Bennett Cerf, January 6, 1939 789
To Saxe Commins, February 14, 1939 790
To F. Scott Fitzgerald, April 5, 1939 791
To Edmund Wilson, April 6, 1939 792
To Malcolm Cowley, May 11, 1939 794
To F. Scott Fitzgerald, June 30, 1939 795
To Edmund Wilson, June 30, 1939 796
To Bob Brown, February 14, 1940 797
To Bennett Cerf, February 14, 1940 799
To Bennett Cerf, March 11, 1940 799
To Bennett Cerf, March 30, 1940 800
Chronology 803
Note on the Texts 813
Notes 820

Title: Novels and Other Writings: The Dream Life of Balso Snell, Miss Lonelyhearts, A Cool Million, The Day of the Locust, Other Writings, Letters (Library of America)

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Item Number: 9781883011284

Publication Date: August 1997

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I understand how some might give up on this volume after reading the first selection, The Dream Life of Balso Snell, which is more for people who like William Burroughs's Naked Lunch. But, don't let it stop you from reading on, it would be a mistake. This collection is a fabulous journey.

Of the first four published novellas, A Cool Million stood out for me. It's as though the Coen Brothers, Mark Twain and Freidrich DÃ¼rrenmatt got together to write a Horatio Alger story. It's a fantastic piece of imagination and writing. Similarly, Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust are classics centered on the theme of alienation (as a trivial aside, the latter has a character named Homer Simpson, but the only thing he shares with the cartoon character is a certain vacuous quality). Stunning stuff.

The second half of this volume contains West's unpublished writings and fragments, which would make one think that there's little there. But that, again, would be a mistaken assumption. The unfinished Mr. Potts of Pottsdown is a wonderful "Keeping up with the Joneses"-type of story. Just wished West had been able to complete it. The play Good Hunting (written with Joseph Schrank) is a wonderful, dark take on the officer corps in World War I with humorous, ironic dialogue and plot twists. I was not familiar with West prior to reading this and now I will never forget many of the images he created. He died in 1940 at the age of 37 and this collection demonstrates what a great loss this was to American literature.

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	The Dream Life of Balso Snell	1
	Miss Lonelyhearts	55
	A Cool Million	127
	The Day of the Locust	239
	Other Writings
	Euripides - A Playwright	393
	"Throughout the Hole in the Mundane Millstone"	397
	Some Notes on Violence	399
	Some Notes on Miss L.	401
	Business Deal	403
	Soft Soap for the Barber	407
	Unpublished Writings and Fragments
	The Impostor	411
	Western Union Boy	425
	Mr. Potts of Pottstown	429
	The Adventurer	445
	Three Eskimos	456
	Burn the Cities	458
	Tibetan Night	461
	Proposal to the Guggenheim Foundation	465
	Good Hunting, A Play in Three Acts	467
	Before the Fact, A Screen Play	621
	"A Cool Million": A Screen Story	745
	Untitled Outline	755
	Letters
	To Beatrice Matheiu, April 12, 1930	769
	To The New York World-Telegram, October 20, 1931	769
	To William Carlos Williams, late 1931	770
	To Milton Abernethy, April 26, 1932	772
	To William Carlos Williams, c. April 1932	773
	To William Carlos Williams, May 13, 1932	775
	To Minna and Milton Abernethy, February 17, 1933	777
	To Minna and Milton Abernethy, March 24, 1933	777
	To Minna and Milton Abernethy, April 11, 1933	778
	To Minna and Milton Abernethy, May? 1933	779
	To Edmund Wilson, July 25, 1933	780
	To Minna and Milton Abernethy, July 27, 1933	781
	To F. Scott Fitzgerald, September 11, 1934	782
	To Bennett Cerf, May? 1938	782
	To Bennett Cerf, June 7, 1938	784
	To Bennett Cerf, July 11, 1938	785
	To Josephine Conway, September 19, 1938	786
	To Josephine Conway, October 21, 1938	788
	To Bennett Cerf, January 6, 1939	789
	To Saxe Commins, February 14, 1939	790
	To F. Scott Fitzgerald, April 5, 1939	791
	To Edmund Wilson, April 6, 1939	792
	To Malcolm Cowley, May 11, 1939	794
	To F. Scott Fitzgerald, June 30, 1939	795
	To Edmund Wilson, June 30, 1939	796
	To Bob Brown, February 14, 1940	797
	To Bennett Cerf, February 14, 1940	799
	To Bennett Cerf, March 11, 1940	799
	To Bennett Cerf, March 30, 1940	800
	Chronology	803
	Note on the Texts	813
	Notes	820