Woody Haut

Raised in Pasadena, but now living in London, Woody Haut is the author of Pulp Culture: Hardboiled Fiction and the Cold War; Neon Noir: Contemporary American Crime Fiction; Heartbreak and Vine: The Fate of Hardboiled Writers in Hollywood; and of the novels Cry For a Nickel, Die For a Dime and Days of Smoke.

The Long Half-Life of Proletarian Prose: On Michael Gold and Maxwell Bodenheim

Woody Haut works through “Michael Gold: The People’s Writer” by Patrick Chura and “Slow Vision” by Maxwell Bodenheim....

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Prisoners of the Page: On Myron Brinig’s “The Flutter of an Eyelid”

Woody Haut wanders into the apocalyptic world of “The Flutter of an Eyelid,” a satirical novel by Myron Brinig from 1933, republished last year....

FICTION

An Obscure Road to Hollywood

A republication of Philippe Garnier’s 1996 book on screenwriters in 1930s Hollywood....

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