The Most Terrifying Town in the World: Horace McCoy's I Should Have Stayed Home

In two days, I'll be jetting across the sky, bound for L.A. for the Los Angeles Times Book Award ceremony and the L.A. Times Festival of Books.  Fobbit  is up for the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction on Friday and on the following day, I'll be on a panel called "Fiction With a Sideways Glance" with Jess Walter ( Beautiful Ruins ), Diana Wagman ( The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets ) and Fiona Maazel ( Woke Up Lonely ).  I'm looking forward to the festival, but I have a feel...