Literary Nonfiction. Art. Edited by Hillary Chute and Noah Feldman. This is a scrap book of newspaper clippings with a note on Aaron and an interview with him. For over fifty years Daniel Aaron kept this scrap book for his eyes alone. He identifies its subject as "the truly monstrous," Nathanael West's phrase from his novel Miss Lonelyhearts. It is a book of the grotesque in American life.