They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Goodbye (1948), and They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1935), which was made into a film. He died in 1955.
Praise for Horace

. During his lifetime he travelled all over the US as a salesman and taxi-driver, and his varied career included reporting and sports editing, acting as bodyguard to a politician, doubling for a wrestler, and writing for films and magazines.

I heard Gloria hollering. You see how those things happen?
So we walked

I couldn’t get inside, so I hung around the front until noon when one of his assistants came out for lunch. I caught up with him and asked what was the chance to get some atmosphere.
‘None,’ he said, telling me that von Sternberg was very careful about his atmospheric people.

He was as wrong as a man can be.

I didn’t have a leg to stand on.

I can tell by the look of him that he is going to be glad to say it

I wasn’t feeling very good;

Everything was as plain as day.

the kind of apocalyptic detail that both he and Nathanael West saw in life as lived on the Hollywood fringe’ New Y