Quotes from Nathanael West's books, and about them
How to Read and Why on Miss Lonelyhearts: “she preferred Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts to all other works of modern American fiction”
The Man in the High Castle on Miss Lonelyhearts: “"The book," Paul said, "which is quite rare, and which I possess a copy of nonetheless, is by Nathanael West. Title is Miss Lonelyhearts." — a real published novel discussed in-narrative.”
Slouching Towards Bethlehem on The Day of the Locust: “Nathanael West perceived that, in The Day of the Locust; and at the time of the 1965 Watts riots what struck the imagination most indelibly were the fires.”