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"I seem to have no market whatsoever."

Another installment in "How Did That Famous Writer Get Famous?"

Anne Trubek
May 10
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Nathanael West is one of my favorite writers, smart, funny, dark, weaving in social commentary. But, as Belt senior editor Mike Jauchen pointed out to me recently, he had a hell of a time selling books.

Mike sent me this wonderful if a tad twee article by Gerald Howard from 1990 about West’s disastrous publication history. West’s first novel, The Drea…

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