{"product_id":"9781933527529","title":"The Wilshire Sun","description":"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Like the naive main characters in so many American novels and films—say, Nathanael West’s \u003ci\u003eThe Day of the Locust\u003c\/i\u003e and David Lynch’s \u003ci\u003eMulholland Drive\u003c\/i\u003e—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 \u003ci\u003eThe Big Lebowski.”\u003c\/i\u003e—Minneapolis \u003ci\u003eStar Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“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.”—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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. \u003ci\u003eThe Wilshire Sun\u003c\/i\u003e is a surreal, giddily original debut that plumbs the myth of Los Angeles.\"—James Frey\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wilshire Sun\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Turtle Point Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151701065968,"sku":"9781933527529","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781933527529_p0.jpg?v=1763641056","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781933527529","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}