Talking “Hollyweird,” Noire, and Writing About Movies with Alan Catlin

Alan Catlin has been publishing in the small press, university, and zine world since the 70s; from the Mimeo revolution to the Internet. He has 80 books of various sizes, shapes, and forms not including three in the works for 2023, How Will the Heart Endure (Kelsay Books- on the life and times of photographer Diane Arbus) Listening to the Moonlight Sonata (Impspired) (UK) and Bar Guide for the Seriously Deranged (Roadside Books).

On November 29, 2017, Alan Catlin read his poem “Hollyweird” at the Troy Poetry Mission series at O’Brien’s Public House in Troy, NY

In our conversation, we talk about “Hollyweird,” noire, and writing about movies.