Miss Lonelyhearts and a Cool Million

Miss Lonelyhearts, published in 1933, is Nathanael West's second novel. It is an Expressionist black comedy set in New York City during the Great Depression.
"Money and fame meant nothing to them. They were not worldly men."
"Wildly funny, desperately sad, brutal and kind, furious and patient, there was no other like Nathanael West.”
–Dorothy Parker