The golden West
Subtitle: Hollywood stories
By: by Daniel Fuchs ; selected by Christopher Carduff ; introduction by John Updike.
Contributors: Carduff, Christopher.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Motion picture authorship -- Fiction.; Motion picture industry -- Fiction.; Screenwriters -- Fiction.; Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "In the spring of 1937, Daniel Fuchs, twenty-seven years old and the author of three acclaimed novels of Brooklyn tenement life, 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."

"The Golden West collects, for the first time, the best of Fuchs's writings about the movie business, from a novice screenwriter's anxious diaries (1937-38) to a fifty-year veteran's mellow memoirs (1989). The centerpiece of the book is "West of the Rockies," a short novel, set in the late 1950s, about a half-mad woman, immature and incapable, who is, almost despite herself, a star, "a quantity indefinable, ephemeral, everlastingly elusive - Hollywood's chief stock in trade." It is also a bitter portrait of the star's agent, a grifter who is tempted to use her and her weaknesses to his own ends."--Jacket.
Notes: "A Black Sparrow book."
Table of contents: title: Writing for the movies : a letter from Hollywood, 1962; title: Dream city, or The drugged lake (1937); title: A Hollywood diary (1938); title: Florida (1939); title: The golden West (1954); title: Triplicate (1979); title: The aftershock : a letter from Hollywood, 1971; title: West of the Rockies (1971); title: Strictly movie : a letter from Hollywood, 1989.