The Pest of Seventeen-Year Locusts.; How They Are Overrunning Parts of Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia -- Sparrows and Chickens Feeding on Them -- The Noise They Are Making in the ...

His fluent, satirical discourse in only four novels — The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931), Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), A Cool Million (1934), and The Day of the Locust (1939) — is still impressive.