The protagonist of this man's first novel encounters Maloney the Aeropagite and reads the writings of Beagle Darwin after entering the "Anus Mirabilus" of the Trojan Horse.
The protagonist of this man's first novel encounters Maloney the Aeropagite and reads the writings of Beagle Darwin after entering the "Anus Mirabilus" of the Trojan Horse. Besides The Dream Life of Balso Snell, this author parodied the style of Horatio Alger in a 1936 novel about the "dismantling" of Lemuel Pitkin, A Cool Million. Another of his novels ends with the cripple Peter Doyle shooting the title character, an advice columnist searching for a sincere response to Sick-of-it-all, Desperate, and Broken- Hearted, while the protagonist of his most famous novel imitates a siren during a riot outside Kahn's Persian Palace Theatre in Hollywood. FTP, name this author of Miss Lonelyhearts who wrote of Homer Simpson, Faye Greener, and Tod Hackett in The Day of the Locust.
The protagonist of this man's first novel encounters Maloney the Aeropagite and reads the writings of Beagle Darwin after entering the "Anus Mirabilus" of the Trojan Horse.
Nathanael {West} or Nathan {Weinstein}