\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cBR\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u0026#8220;Like the naive main characters in so many American novels and films\u0026#8212;say, Nathanael West\u0026#8217;s \u003cI\u003eThe Day of the Locust\u003c/I\u003e and David Lynch\u0026#8217;s \u003cI\u003eMulholland Drive\u003c/I\u003e\u0026#8212;Baldwin\u0026#8217;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.\u0026#8221;\u003c/I\u003e\u0026#8212;Minneapolis \u003cI\u003eStar Tribune\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/P\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u0026#8220;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.\u0026#8221;\u0026#8212;\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.\"\u0026#8212;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\u0026#8212;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\u0026#8212;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\u003c/div\u003e
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