Status Updates From Two O'Clock, Eastern Wartim...

This is very different: sort of a starred romance mixed with film noir, with the 1940s small town radio industry as a backdrop.

I'm reading this at the same time as Mailer's Deer Park (set in the early postwar era)--which although very different overall, has similarities in that an outsider just shows up in an isolated community and is immediately accepted. Jack isn't really an outsider, as he discovers...