Miss Lonelyhearts / The Day of the Locust
Miss Lonelyhearts
Miss Lonelyhearts was a newspaper reporter, so named because he had been assigned to write the agony column, to answer the letters from Desperate, Sick-of-It-All, Disillusioned. A jok…
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