Charles McNair is the books editor at Paste Magazine. He is also the author of the novel Land O'Goshen, a 1994 Pultizer Prize nominee for fiction. Every week he stops by to give his insights and review to some of the most historically significant books.
Charles reviews Nathaniel Wests vivid and excoriating satire of Hollywood, The Day of the Locust. Written in the late 1930s, the book though fictional takes much of its narrative and characters from Wests experiences living on Hollywood Boulevard and working as a struggling screenwriter.
