The Disenchanted by Budd Schulberg – Reviewed for Ellroy Reads

The Disenchanted by Budd Schulberg is one of a number of great Hollywood novels that inspired James Ellroy’s The Enchanters. Schulberg wrote the novel as a roman à clef of his own working relationship with F. Scott Fitzgerald when they worked on the film Winter Carnival together. It is one of the most acid and bitingly satirical portraits of Hollywood in American literature.

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