The Wilshire Sun Contributor(s): Baldwin, Joshua (Author) |
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ISBN: 1933527463 ISBN-13: 9781933527468 Publisher: Turtle Point Press OUR PRICE: $9.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Fantasy - Urban - Fiction | Literary |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2010935786 |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5" W x 7.6" (0.35 lbs) 128 pages |
Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA - Cultural Region - Southern California - Geographic Orientation - California - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "Like the naive main characters in so many American novels and films--say, Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust and David Lynch's Mulholland Drive--Baldwin's Jacob discovers Los Angeles is much different than he expected. . . . In his] delightful novella, disarming slackers live life on their terms, bringing to mind younger versions of The Big Lebowski."--Minneapolis Star Tribune "With his surreal and paranoid debut novella, Baldwin makes a solid contribution to the subset of literature that explores the Hollywood dream . . . treating readers to a tantalizing glimpse beyond the edge of sanity."--Publishers Weekly Baldwin's characters search for fame in the shape-shifting landscape of Hollywood. He has a voice that follows the mirage even after it disappears. The Wilshire Sun is a surreal, giddily original debut that plumbs the myth of Los Angeles.--James Frey The Wilshire Sun is a mirthful novella about a whimsical, hapless, over-aspiring, under-achieving young writer from Brooklyn who moves to Los Angeles hoping to write for the movies. With understated deadpan humor and dynamic, sly, original language and off-kilter imagery, Joshua Baldwin has created a novella that may remind readers of an improbable roundtable meeting of Tao Lin, James Thurber, S.J. Perelman, and Jack Benny. The elements of the novella's constitution--clipped pieces of fast-paced immediate narrative interspersed with epistolary matter and off-the-cuff riffs on junk food, screenwriting, Walt Whitman, big brothers, bum grandfathers, and crackpot friends--offer a delightfully absurd portrait of the artist as a young man for our times in the City of Angels. |
Contributor Bio(s): Baldwin, Joshua: - Joshua Baldwin was born in New York in 1984. He graduated from the college at the University of Chicago in 2006. He is the author of the chapbook Poems and Fake Book Reviews. His poetry and reviews have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Chicago Review, and Publishers Weekly. An excerpt from THE WILSHIRE SUN appeared in Or 5, Otis College of Art and Design. |