Alibi Bookshop Book Club: Day of the Locust by Nathanael West August 28th 7pm

Name: Alibi Bookshop Book Club: Day of the Locust by Nathanael West August 28th 7pm
Start: 2024-08-28T19:00:00-07:00
Location: Alibi Bookshop - Vallejo, CA

Schedule

Wed Aug 28 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Alibi Bookshop - Vallejo, CA | Vallejo, CA

For the Alibi Bookshop Book Club for August, we will be going west with Nathanael West, reading his 1939 classic about California dreaming and Hollywood scheming: "Day of the Locust."
Admired by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, and Dashiell Hammett, and hailed as one of the “Best 100 English-language novels” by Time magazine, The Day of the Locust continues to influence American writers, artists, and culture. Bob Dylan wrote the classic song “Day of the Locusts” in homage, and Matt Groening’s Homer Simpson is named after one of its characters. No novel more perfectly captures the nuttier side of Hollywood, reflecting the follies, scandals, and the lunacies of an entire nation. This scorching, ferocious, altogether unforgettable book is now recognized as one of the finest novels ever to come out of Hollywood, an authentic American masterpiece.
Please join us on August 28, 2024 at 7pm for a lively discussion! Books are available in the shop and online: bookshop.org/shop/alibibookshop