Woody Haut's Blog
A weblog dedicated to noir fiction and film, music, poetry and politics.
Sunday, February 23, 2025
Monsters Old and New : Edward Wilson's Farewell Dinner For a Spy, etc.
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Monsters Old and New Edward Wilson is known- though perhaps not as known as he should be- for a handful of fast moving and historically-bas...
Monday, June 17, 2024
Walking Wounded: The Horse by Willy Vlautin
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The plot is basic enough: a sixty-plus year old mentally precarious alcoholic, ex-country musician/songwriter who lives alone in the mount...
Sunday, February 11, 2024
BELIEVING IS SEEING: On Writing On Dangerous Ground
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What Is Noir? Is more than darkness. Is Corruption of the heart. Is behind closed doors, board- room or street. Is fucked Whether you do, do...
Monday, January 22, 2024
Inside the Mind of an Improvisor- The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins, edited by Sam V.H. Reese (NYRB Books)
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The great tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins will be 94 this September. Until a few years ago when pulmonary fibrosis forced him to retire from...
Tuesday, January 09, 2024
Waiting For Robert Johnson
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We've been waiting for this one for something like half a century. Was it worth the wait? Well, yes and no. These days, however importa...
Friday, December 08, 2023
My Favourite Music of 2023
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Hasan Ibn Ali, Reaching For the Stars Jesse Mae Hemphill, She Wolf Qasim Naqvi, Wadada Leo Smith, Andrew Cyrille Jeff Parker, Mondays at t...
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