The Wilshire Sun

The Wilshire Sun is a mirthful novella about a whimsical, hapless over-aspiring, under-achieving young writer from Brooklyn who moves to Los Angeles to write for the movies. With understated deadpan humor and dynamic slyly original language and off-kilter imagery Joshua Baldwin has created a novella that will remind readers of an improbable roundtable meeting of Tao Lin, James Thurber, S.J. Perelman and Jack Benny. The elements of the novella's constitution - clipped pieces of fast-paced immediate narrative interspersed with epistolary matter and off-the-cuff riffs on junk food, screenwriting, Walt Whitman, big brothers, bum grandfathers and crackpot friends -- magically hang together and offer a delightfully absurd portrait of the artist as a young man in the City of Angels.

Author: Joshua Baldwin
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Turtle Point Press
Published: 09/06/2011
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781933527468

About the Author
Born in 1984, Joshua Baldwin grew up in New York City, graduated from the University of Chicago, and now lives in Brooklyn. He is the author of an illustrated chapbook, Poems and Fake Book Reviews, which included a poem that became a semifinalist for the 3 Quarks Daily Arts and Literature Prize. Baldwin's poetry and criticism have also appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Chicago Review, Colorado Review, Publishers Weekly, and elsewhere.