Fiction. THE WILSHIRE SUN is a mirthful novella about a whimsical, hapless, over-aspiring, under-achieving young writer from Brooklyn who moves to Los Angeles hoping to write for the movies. With understated deadpan humor and dynamic, sly, original language and off-kilter imagery, Joshua Baldwin has created a novella that may 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 for our times in the City of Angels. "Baldwin's characters search for fame in the shape-shifting landscape of Hollywood. He has a voice that follows the mirage even after it disappears. THE WILSHIRE SUN is a surreal, giddily original debut that plumbs the myth of Los Angeles"—James Frey.

Author City: BROOKLYN, NY USA

Joshua Baldwin was born in New York in 1984. He graduated from the college at the University of Chicago in 2006. He is the author of the chapbook Poems and Fake Book Reviews. His poetry and reviews have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Chicago Review, and Publishers Weekly. An excerpt from THE WILSHIRE SUN appeared in Or 5, Otis College of Art and Design.

Reviews and Other Links
Publishers Weekly
Jason Diamond @ Vol. 1 Brooklyn