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T>he Dream Life of Balso Snell seems to have taught him the rudiments of literary form, and in his next two novels, Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and A Cool Million (1934), he funneled this half-hysterical personality of his into some reasonably disciplined yet fully grotesque story lines--in the case of Miss Lonelyhearts , the noir daily life of a cynical Christian advice columnist, and in the case of A Cool Million , the adventures of a Horatio Alger-type character.