The Day of the Locust

The Day of the LocustWhen Nathanael West died, in a car crash that also killed his wife Eileen, on December 22, 1940, he was not a well known author. In 1939 his novel The Day of the Locust was published. F. Scott Fitzgerald, who died the day before the Wests, had written: The Day of the Locust has scenes of extraordinary power. Especially I was impressed by the pathological crowd at the premiere, the character and handling of the aspirant actress, and the uncanny almost

It was written in 1961

LeWitt was accorded an exhibition by the Museum of Modern Art in New York

when Einstein was only twenty-six

Since we lack the italic matrices

turned ninety degrees at the corners

Hoyem then expanded the scope of the book to include introductions by Lowry Nelson

He had solo exhibitions in galleries beginning in 1956

one of America's great writers

Arion Press announces The Lulu Plays with esteemed South African artist William Kentridge for September 2015

As Diane Johnson writes in her introduction to the Arion edition

in association with the Library of Congress

The edition soon sold out