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Day of the Locust

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A novel by Nathaniel West about Hollywood and the American Dream, published in 1939.

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"My work early on was compared to Nathaniel West, Day of the Locust. I didn't read that book until a few years ago because I had been compared to him so often that I was nervous about reading it."
From: This Writer Knows What You're Hiding From Yourself | Bruce Wagner • ▶ 3:42 • Jan 2026

Attribution: Wagner mentions being compared to this classic but avoided reading it for years due to nervousness about comparisons