Jen Johans Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Jen Johans

#Podcast: @WatchWithJen - S4: E12 - My First Movie: Film Noir, French New Wave, & Giallo Horror with Cory Everett @modage joins me to discuss the creation of the Cinephile Game & his wonderful books, + THE KILLING, THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, & DEEP RED. https://t.co/bAxnPnmnMC https://t.co/xyqU8KKrwz

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Last night, I recommended Tim O'Brien's THE THINGS THEY CARRIED to my friend's son. I said it was one of the greatest books ever written & for a few mins, I worried I oversold it but I just re-read this excerpt I used to post every Memorial Day & no, it really is a masterpiece. https://t.co/ZFZGjDvTmr

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Morning Throwback: Where's Waldo? Look, George Orwell was right about a lot of things but what he was wrong about was how kids partied in 1984. https://t.co/y2ztWgrjsP

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Adapted from Harper Lee's novel by scr. Horton Foote, dir. Robert Mulligan's TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is mostly remembered for Gregory Peck's extraordinary performance as the humanistic defense lawyer Atticus Finch. But 1 turn I especially love is Robert Duvall's debut as Boo Radley https://t.co/0j58wTLf5m

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Book mail is the best mail - just received Paul Newman's memoir (for fun) & the first volume of the collected screenplays of Ethan & Joel Coen (for research). https://t.co/ccOSlTCABE

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"It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared." - Jack Kerouac, BIG SUR First watch of Michael Polish's adaptation & shots of the waves & trees are hypnotic indeed. It's making me want to travel there, bring a journal, write, & reread BIG SUR. https://t.co/PnIwwMUkiT

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I get wanderlust in the Phoenix heat so I thought I'd hitch a ride with Sherwood Anderson to WINESBURG, OHIO. (Look, when @meganeabbott recommends a book, you get that book!) Related: It's totally normal to have your 14 digit library card number memorized, right? https://t.co/1RG1wev1iH

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Reading about how in '63, Sterling Hayden wrote WANDERER, a literary autobiography, in which he devoted little ink to his film career vs. Hemingway like chronicles of his sea voyages & wishes for adventure. He bailed on Hollywood for Tahiti with his family. Need to read this. Wow https://t.co/G9qDPo7Noa

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🎵 Hey, I've got nothing to do today but smile 🎵 Impossible to choose a fave Simon & Garfunkel song. Such beauty in "Scarborough Fair" & "Bridge Over Troubled Water." "The Boxer" stayed in my head once for a week! But on Paul Simon's bday, this fits: https://t.co/rMBhB1VY0m https://t.co/wAqyLFoqlI

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Update: Pouring over it today to prep for a pod conversation we're recording about Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Day-Lewis, THERE WILL BE BLOOD, & PHANTOM THREAD tomorrow &, gang, @Ethan_Warren_'s book AMERICAN APOCRYPHA on PTA is a knockout. Check it out! https://t.co/t6b8ERafGs https://t.co/x9u6MXqCiU

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