Amy Sohn's novels include Prospect Park West, My Old Man, and Run Catch Kiss. She has written television pilots for such networks as HBO, Fox, and ABC.Her new novel is Motherland.
One of Sohn's six favorite books, as told to The Week magazine:
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael WestRead about another novel on the list.
In writing scenes for my character Danny Gottlieb (who goes to L.A. to create a screenplay and loses his mind), I kept returning to West's classic Hollywood grotesques. Day of the Locustis dark, dirty, sexual, and chilling. And each sentence is clear and perfect.
The Day of the Locust is on Megan Wasson's top 5 list of books about Los Angeles, Jerome Charyn's list of the five best tales of dislocation, Jane Ciabattari's list of the five best novels on Hollywood, Jonathan Kellerman's list of the top ten LA noir novels, and Peter Conn's list of the five best novels from the Great Depression; it also appears on Jonathan Evison's list of books about the Spirit of California and John Mullan's list of ten of the best riots in literature.
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The Page 69 Test: Motherland.
--Marshal Zeringue
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