The Wilshire Sun

Marketing Notes:
"Tao Lin meets SJ Perelman" in The Wilshire Sun, a book full of dynamic, slyly original language and off kilter imagery. Masterfully paced, Baldwin's comic timing is reminiscent of vintage Woody Allen. 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 artists as a young man in the City of Angels.
Selling Points:
Form -- The Daily Beast calls the novella the "perfect form for our time." The Wilshire Sun is short, portable, compellingly discursive and mysterious.
Humor -- The books humor will spark a wave of positive word-of-mouth in the blogosphere. The author is a contributor to closely followed group litblog digitalemunction.com
Comparables:
Out of My Skin, John Haskell, FSG, 2009
The Pleasure of My Company: A Novella, Steve Martin, Hyperion 2004
Jakob Von Gunten, Robert Walser NYRB, 1999

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