Starlite Terrace
Roth, Patrick, M.D. / Winston, Krishna Dark stories of failed dreams and contemporary desperation in Los Angeles. In a rundown Los Angeles apartment building‿the titular Starlite Terrace‿Patrick Roth unfurls the tragic linked stories of Rex, Moss, Gary, and June, four neighbors, in a sort of burlesque of the Hollywood modern. In each of their singular collisions with fame, Roth‿s dark prose presages a universal and mythical fate of desperation.  In “The Man at Noah‿s Wi...