Let's Read Los Angeles: The Day of the Locust
Wed, Jul 29 2026
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
About the Event
Artist Tod Hackett gets more than he bargains for when he moves to Hollywood to work on set design at a studio and falls in with interesting local characters.
Nathanael West's 1939 novel The Day of the Locust was written while West lived in the San Fernando Valley. As a matter of fact, West and his wife Eileen McKenney (of My Sister Eileen fame) lived at 12706 Magnolia Blvd, down the street from the library, when they died in 1940.
Check out the copy of the book here at the library or you can find the e-book and e-audiobook at lapl.org.
For disability-related accommodations, please call (213) 228-7430 at least five business days prior to the event.
