The Wilshire Sun

“Like the naive main characters in so many American novels and films—say, Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust and David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive —Baldwin’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 The Big Lebowski.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune “With his surreal and paranoid debut novella, Baldwin makes a solid contribution to the subset of literature that e