Not Pynchon. Happy birth anniversary, Nathanael West. (Second writer I ever read completely. Only four)

[Mark Kohut]

In one word, thinner, less plangent than the two masterpieces (which I've
read again over the years)
....*.Dream Life of Balso Snell *is a lightweight thing, a fantasy.
Can't even much recall except I do remember one line/scene I used in a
make-out
happening with a girl--she *was *a girl then, I was not yet out of boyhood
myself.

But *A Cool Million* is the better. It stuck with me and it would occur
pretentiously at times in
my mental life. A parable of sorts which could call the Lie of the American
Dream. (It would occur
to me if some political or personal body blow would happen in my otherwise
American dream life.)

Soon. More.

On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 9:30 PM Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> What are the other two (the non Locust and Lonelyhearts), and how are
> they, in your opinion?
>
> Jerky
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 7:36 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
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> > 10/17/18, 12:51 PM
> > Nathanael West, born October 17, 1903. pic.twitter.com/Do0f0cDPWf
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