Short Stories and Novel Excerpts
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Title First Published in Notes "A Barefaced Lie" Overland Monthly, 1929 "Miss Lonelyhearts and the Lamb" Contact, February 1932 Excerpt from Miss Lonelyhearts "Miss Lonelyhearts and the Dead Pan" Contact, May 1932 Excerpt from Miss Lonelyhearts "Miss Lonelyhearts and the Clean Old Man" Contact, May 1932 Excerpt from Miss Lonelyhearts "Miss Lonelyhearts in the Dismal Swamp" Contempo, July 1932 Excerpt from Miss Lonelyhearts "Miss Lonelyhearts on a Field Trip" Contact, October 1932 Excerpt from Miss Lonelyhearts "The Dear Public" Americana, August 1933 Excerpt from The Dream Life of Balso Snell Unnamed excerpt Americana, September 1933 Excerpt from The Dream Life of Balso Snell "Business Deal" Americana, October 1933 Collected in Novels and other Writings, 1997 "Bird and Bottle" Pacific Weekly, November 1936 Early section of The Day of the Locust; collected in
Nathanael West: A Collection of Critical Essays"The Imposter" The New Yorker, June 2, 1997 Originally titled "The Fake", then retitled "L'Affaire Beano";
collected in Novels and other Writings, 1997"Western Union Boy" – Collected in Novels and other Writings, 1997 "Mr. Potts of Pottstown" – Incomplete;
collected in Novels and other Writings, 1997"The Adventurer" – Incomplete;
collected in Novels and other Writings, 1997"Three Eskimos" – Used inThe Day of the Locust;
collected in Novels and other Writings, 1997"Tibetan Night" – Collected in Novels and other Writings, 1997 "The Sun, the Lady, and the Gas Station" –
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