Travis Woods Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Travis Woods

I cannot recommend SHE RIDES SHOTGUN enough—a pulped meatgrinder mix of hardboiled desert noir, heart, LONE WOLF & CUB, and a teddy bear. Catch Jordan this Sunday at 3PM at the @latimesbooks LA’S MEAN STREETS mystery/thriller panel. Get tix: https://t.co/UhWPus37D3 https://t.co/OfpctPvmW3

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(and it was De Palma who convinced pal Noah Baumbach to direct an adaptation of DeLillo's WHITE NOISE, as the story would provide Baumbach an opportunity to shoot the kind of archly cinematic De Palma-esque setpieces Baumbach's own dramedy scripts don't allow for) https://t.co/1iWMLblF0Q

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MIAMI BLUES is a hilarious/haunting Day-Glo noir about dreams that never come true, whiplashing from dark comedy to relationship drama to crime thriller. I wrote about it for @BWDR, w/ art by @studiotstella. (Now streaming on @criterionchannl!) https://t.co/GH8tkHS8Wf https://t.co/yfXojwXt2c

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A queasily elliptical interrogation of S&M, desire, control, trauma & memory, THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS plays like an obsessively sexual & sunstained fever dream about the death drive, made by 3 horny, evicerative madmen who would know: Paul Schrader, Ian McEwan, & Harold Pinter. https://t.co/b3yZfAz6Ce

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"It’s a film about what we see in art, and what that art makes us see within ourselves. "And it’s about what we do with what we see there." Happy birthday to Quentin Tarantino's ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD. I wrote about it for @BWDR. https://t.co/VXjHAHxvSD https://t.co/i56Nwqc2Zx

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Two 2023 crime novels you should read: @jordan_harper's EVERYBODY KNOWS & @blacklionking73's ALL THE SINNERS BLEED. Both locate a bloodied/uniquely American darkness, one beneath the arterial tangle of L.A. freeways & fame, the other amidst the humid horror & heart of the South. https://t.co/c7Hvc21TOK

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I’ll say it again: Buy @blacklionking73’s newest book, ALL THE SINNERS BLEED. It’s like something dark & bloodied & wrenched out of the earth, like a Cormac McCarthy detective novel twisted in kudzu & consequences—No Fuckaround Shit of the highest order. https://t.co/bFGUzK4nkn

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This is neither here nor there, but Brian De Palma nearly followed SCARFACE not with BODY DOUBLE, but with a Steven Spielberg-produced adaptation of Michael Crichton's CONGO. Fucking ~CONGO~. https://t.co/F7WOzwuZvF

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That time I wrote an angry message to my @BWDR editor rather than write an essay about DOUBLE INDEMNITY: "Honeysuckle Murder: (A Memorandum on) Death in Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity (and the Futility of Writing About It)" 🎨: @studiotstella https://t.co/vcvcTsG7Rk https://t.co/Gu1cah1AuC

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That time I folded the Anita Hill testimony and erotic thrillers BASIC INSTINCT, DISCLOSURE, COLOR OF NIGHT, & THE LAST SEDUCTION into an essay about how men's sex anxieties about female power flooded the softcore fantasias of the early 1990s: https://t.co/GeOoqXTBnv https://t.co/ztapeyqOi8