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A wonderful volume . . . a very welcome book. -- David Thomson, The New Republic
Fuchs refuses to lose faith that things can be seen, and people's hearts can be known. -- Forward Newspaper, May 26, 2005
Of all the writers who relocated to Hollywood and stuck it out, Daniel Fuchs was perhaps the most talented. -- American Book Review, January/February 2006
Superb -- Sam Tanenhaus, New York Times Book Review
[These stories] are tours de force of surface description and telling detail. -- Katherine A. Powers, The Boston Sunday Globe
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In the spring of 1937, Brooklyn's Daniel Fuchs, twenty-seven years old and already the author of three remarkable novels, came to Hollywood to bang out a treatment of one of his short stories. His thirteen-week contract turned into a permanent residence -- and a lifelong love affair with the movie business. Fuchs worked with the best: Warner and M-G-M and RKO, Wilder and Huston and Joe Pasternak, Raft and Cagney and Doris Day. He spent his days crafting screenplays, but off the lot he continued to write prose, mainly stories for Collier's and The New Yorker and non-fiction "Letters from Hollywood" for Commentary. The Golden West collects, for the first time, the best of Fuch's writings about studio life, from a novice screenwriter's anxious first impressions (1937-39) to a fifty-year veteran's mellow memoirs. Fuchs may have loved Hollywood, but his affection didn't blind him to the town's Babylon aspect: he saw life as it is, gold and! ! tinsel both, and described it without falling into easy sentiment or condescending laughter. He was the Chekhov of the back lot, the Bellow of the Brown Derby.
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A wonderful volume . . . a very welcome book. -- David Thomson, The New Republic
Fuchs refuses to lose faith that things can be seen, and people's hearts can be known. -- Forward Newspaper, May 26, 2005
Of all the writers who relocated to Hollywood and stuck it out, Daniel Fuchs was perhaps the most talented. -- American Book Review, January/February 2006
Superb -- Sam Tanenhaus, New York Times Book Review
[These stories] are tours de force of surface description and telling detail. -- Katherine A. Powers, The Boston Sunday Globe
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In the spring of 1937, Brooklyn's Daniel Fuchs, twenty-seven years old and already the author of three remarkable novels, came to Hollywood to bang out a treatment of one of his short stories. His thirteen-week contract turned into a permanent residence -- and a lifelong love affair with the movie business. Fuchs worked with the best: Warner and M-G-M and RKO, Wilder and Huston and Joe Pasternak, Raft and Cagney and Doris Day. He spent his days crafting screenplays, but off the lot he continued to write prose, mainly stories for Collier's and The New Yorker and non-fiction "Letters from Hollywood" for Commentary. The Golden West collects, for the first time, the best of Fuch's writings about studio life, from a novice screenwriter's anxious first impressions (1937-39) to a fifty-year veteran's mellow memoirs. Fuchs may have loved Hollywood, but his affection didn't blind him to the town's Babylon aspect: he saw life as it is, gold and! ! tinsel both, and described it without falling into easy sentiment or condescending laughter. He was the Chekhov of the back lot, the Bellow of the Brown Derby.
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The Golden West, West of the Rockies, New York, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Rogers Hammet, Strictly Movie, Solly Renick, Harry Case, Fannie Case, Louisa Lissak, Palm Springs, Paul Devaney, Adele Hogue, Culver City, Hollywood Diary, Sunset Boulevard, Taylor Theatre, Brighton Beach, Irwin Shaw, Johnny Mantle, Kansas City, The Saturday Evening Post, William Drice, Wilshire Boulevard New!
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The Golden West, West of the Rockies, New York, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Rogers Hammet, Strictly Movie, Solly Renick, Harry Case, Fannie Case, Louisa Lissak, Palm Springs, Paul Devaney, Adele Hogue, Culver City, Hollywood Diary, Sunset Boulevard, Taylor Theatre, Brighton Beach, Irwin Shaw, Johnny Mantle, Kansas City, The Saturday Evening Post, William Drice, Wilshire Boulevard New!
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- Homage to Blenholt (Proletarian Literature Series) by Daniel Fuchs in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Force Majeure by Christopher Golden in Front Matter
- Background to Danger by Eric Ambler on page 245
- San Francisco (Windsor Destination Guides) by Wolfgang Fuchs on page 253
- Dirty Eddie: 2 by Ludwig Bemelmans in Front Matter
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- Apple's America: The Discriminating Traveler's Guide to 40 Great Cities in the United States and Canada by R. W. Apple Jr. on page 198
- A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre by C. Innes on page 10
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