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.
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.
Woody Haut works through “Michael Gold: The People’s Writer” by Patrick Chura and “Slow Vision” by Maxwell Bodenheim.
Woody Haut wanders into the apocalyptic world of “The Flutter of an Eyelid,” a satirical novel by Myron Brinig from 1933, republished last year.
A republication of Philippe Garnier’s 1996 book on screenwriters in 1930s Hollywood.
Woody Haut reviews the new collection of short stories by the late Larry Brown, "Tiny Love."
Woody Haut reviews a new biography of Nelson Algren.
Woody Haut picks up “Pulp According to David Goodis” by Jay A. Gertzman.
Woody Haut reviews “The Long Take,” a long-form noir poem by Robin Robertson.
Woody Haut takes a stroll through “The Evenings,” a classic Dutch novel by Gerard Reve.