William Boyle
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Writer. New novel, SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET, out now from Soho Crime.
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“He still believes his people can be romantic heroes…” Beautiful Unloved video essay by Scout Tafoya on Alan Rudolph’s beautiful late masterpiece RAY MEETS HELEN (for my money, one of the best and most underrated movies of the last decade).
www.rogerebert.com/the-unloved/...
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The Unloved, Part 146: Ray Meets Helen | The Unloved | Roger Ebert
Our video series finally tackles one of the world of the undersung filmmaker Alan Rudolph.
https://www.rogerebert.com/the-unloved/the-unloved-part-146-ray-meets-helen
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Southwest Review
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“Seventy-six pretty perfect minutes. A fairytale from the gutter.” 🕳️ Read
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on his top movie recs for this month in the latest I WAKE UP STREAMING 🍿
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I Wake Up Streaming | January 2026
By William Boyle
https://southwestreview.com/i-wake-up-streaming-january-2026/
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Great to see SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET in the Washington Post’s paperback roundup. Thanks to Krista Farrell for the heads up (and the pictures of the print edition). And thanks again to E.A. Aymar for the great words in his original review.
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2026/0...
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Hope to see you in Dallas in April! This is gonna be special!
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Franck Boulègue
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David Lynch left us one year ago exactly. A few days after his death, we recorded a tribute episode with
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, and Knut Larsson, who shared their thoughts and memories about Lynch's lasting legacy. 🔥
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David Lynch tribute episode | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Last week, the fire went out. David Lynch passed away and left cinephiles around the world in grief. We wanted to pay tribute to this unforgettable artist, so we asked several of our guests to record ...
https://rss.com/podcasts/afterimages/1865074/
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I can already tell that this is gonna be one of those movies that I evangelize about for the rest of my life.
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The paperback of SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET is available today! “This book is actually worth five stars if you are into losers who live meaningless lives, and you enjoy being depressed right up to the last page.” -Karen, Amazon reviewer
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768961...
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Damon Young
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I read the first page of this and *immediately* fell into a melancholy that would've had Nietzsche ripping up The Gay Science and guzzling black coffee. Looks excellent.
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This is a must read!
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The paperback of SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET is available today! “This book is actually worth five stars if you are into losers who live meaningless lives, and you enjoy being depressed right up to the last page.” -Karen, Amazon reviewer
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768961...
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Since Anthony Jeselnik’s got folks reading THE GETAWAY for his book club, here’s a short essay I wrote about it for a Reader’s Companion to the works of Jim Thompson published by Rivages in France.
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Finally picked this up. Damn excited to dig in.
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Mail’s been on hold, so this just showed up. What a beautiful release from
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My 2025 Letterboxd Year in Review
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My 2025 Letterboxd stats
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Farran Smith Nehme
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2025 didn't bring me many pleasant surprises, but Abel Ferrara's "Scene" was one of them. As were the films I watched or re-watched alongside it for research. (Gift link)
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‘Scene’ Review: The Hungry Eye
Abel Ferrara’s movies are often driven by the consequences of extreme impulses. Much of his career has also been defined by a taste for immoderate behavior.
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/scene-review-the-hungry-eye-9ae2bf67?st=um7PMR&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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My writing in 2025 (a thread): My latest novel, SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET, came out from Soho Crime on 2/4/25 (the paperback will be available on 1/6/26):
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768961...
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Jordan Harper
about 1 month ago
Buy it, you fools
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Jamie Canavés
about 1 month ago
great crime novel 💙📚
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Pete Dragovich
about 1 month ago
Terrific book!
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The paperback of SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET will be out a week from today, 1/6/26. Hope you’ll pick it up!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768961...
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Still have tons to catch up on (IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU, BLUE MOON, THE SECRET AGENT, NO OTHER CHOICE, IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT, THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE, and SIRĀT are at the top of my watchlist), but here are my favorite movies and performances of the year so far.
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My writing in 2025 (a thread): My latest novel, SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET, came out from Soho Crime on 2/4/25 (the paperback will be available on 1/6/26):
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768961...
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inessentials
about 1 month ago
the best new books I read in 2025: Heart the Lover,
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Saint of the Narrows Street,
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The Crazies: The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and a War Out West, Amy Gamerman One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, Omar El Akkad
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Caleb
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20 of the best books I read in 2025, including titles by
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@craigclevenger.bsky.social
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@blacktopkid.bsky.social
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My favorite first-time reads of the year (not including any books published in ‘25)
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There were a ton of albums and EPs I liked this year, but these were my favorites.
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Pete Dragovich
about 1 month ago
I also loved this show. Many thanks to Bill for hipping me to it.
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My favorite songs of 2025 (updated with a minor correction)
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Man, I loved Cooper Raiff’s HAL & HARPER as much as I loved anything this year. As great as TASK is, this is Mark Ruffalo’s best sad dad performance of the year. Raiff and Lili Reinhart are terrific. Cared about these characters so much. Wept my way through it and laughed a ton.
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Listened to a lot of music this year. Could pretty easily make a list of fifty songs I loved, but I wanted to keep it reasonable. Tough to narrow it down, but here are my fifteen favorites of the year, the songs I just couldn’t stop spinning.
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Blake Howard
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Firmly believe all Malick films need ten years to ferment, none more than Knight of Cups. Of course I’m gonna get my guy
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to tell our fortune on
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#DecadeProject
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THE DECADE PROJECT: KNIGHT OF CUPS (2015) w/ Scout Tafoya
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Xda6gMTkrvxtLStwCSIVg?si=6PaJA6rFSqucy7TIc8mU7A
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Smoke’s ANOTHER REASON TO FAST
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My favorite TV of 2025
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Mike Masnick
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Seeing lots of people post clips from Sinatra in "The House I Live In" as a response to Stephen Miller being a racist about Sinatra. Just a random reminder that "The House I Live In" is in the public domain. Every once in a while it's good to remember the public domain is good...
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Free to Use and Reuse: Public Domain Films from the National Film Registry | Library of Congress Free to Use and Reuse | Library of Congress
The National Film Registry selects 25 films each year to showcase the range and diversity of American film heritage. These public domain selections are part of an online collection.
https://www.loc.gov/free-to-use/public-domain-films-from-the-national-film-registry/
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Franck Boulègue
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@ramseycampbell.bsky.social
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,
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,
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, Jen Fawkes,
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,
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, and Stephen Volk are all on our 2025 bonus episode of AFTERIMAGES!
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Special episode -- 2025 | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Ramsey Campbell, Vajra Chandrasekera, Arkady Martine, Vivian Shaw, Harley Peyton, Jen Fawkes, Peter Atkins, William Boyle, and Stephen Volk join us again for a special end of the year episode full of ...
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The New York Times
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“Marty Supreme” features appearances from NBA All-Stars, a “Shark Tank” investor and a supermarket mogul. Here’s a guide to some of the film’s most interesting cameos, and how they came about.
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All the Cameos in ‘Marty Supreme,’ From Kevin O’Leary to Tyler, the Creator
A “Shark Tank” investor, a supermarket magnate and even N.B.A. All-Stars make appearances in the table tennis comedy.
https://nyti.ms/3LlBv0V
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My Ten Favorite First-Time Watches & Discoveries of 2025
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Norm Wilner
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I've seen this going around today and it's beautiful, so here's a gift link.
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Opinion | Martin Scorsese: ‘Rob Reiner Was My Friend’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/opinion/culture/martin-scorsese-rob-reiner.html?unlocked_article_code=1._U8.VZPq.dyWEfiLm1RSX&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Watched four of my favorites of the year over the last few days.
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Put this up on the back of the door in my grandparents’ old kitchen. Gonna see how long it is before my mom notices.
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Saw MARTY SUPREME on 70mm at the Alamo Drafthouse. Incredible. Totally immersed from the first second (and even before that with all the terrific pre-show stuff). Great performance by Timmy C as a fuckup madman hustler. A stellar supporting cast. My kind of movie down to the bone.
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Amazing.
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Wes Anderson Recreates Joseph Cornell’s Utopia Parkway Studio in Paris
A Gagosian installation translates Cornell’s secluded, obsessive working habits into a street-level experience that echoes the logic and poetry of his shadowboxes.
https://observer.com/2025/12/paris-artist-wes-anderson-recreates-joseph-cornell-studio-house-on-utopia-parkway-gagosian/
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The Guardian
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James Ransone, US actor known for The Wire, dies aged 46
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James Ransone, US actor known for The Wire, dies aged 46
LA medical examiner reports Ransone, who played Chester ‘Ziggy’ Sobotka in the HBO crime drama, died by suicide James Ransone, the American actor best known for his work in 12 episodes of The Wire, has died in Los Angeles. Information from the Los Angeles medical examiner indicated Ransone, 46, died on Friday from suicide. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/21/james-ransone-the-wire-actor-dead?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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My wife and I went to see LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD today. A privilege to get to see one of my all-time favorite actors, Laurie Metcalf, onstage. What a performance. What a play.
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Prompted by seeing some posts with Brooklyn centric noir novelist
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, I picked up ‘Only The Dead Know Brooklyn’ by Thomas Boyle (no relation). Enjoyable 80s NYPD (kind of) procedural roams all over the borough with an intertwined serial murder & revolutionary 70s kidnapping plot
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Couldn't be happier to be on NPR's Best Books of 2025, especially with pals and heroes like
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Susan Barker, Sara Sliger
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Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
https://apps.npr.org/best-books/?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20251124&utm_term=10473075&utm_campaign=pop-culture&utm_id=57286291&orgid=554&uniquet=mg8KKKfk9-K7PazkUv0l3A&utm_att1=#tags=mysteries+%26+thrillers&view=covers&year=2025
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Southwest Review
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New memoir from Abel Ferrara out now and who better to review the goods than our certified movie-guru
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NOBODY. THAT'S WHO. 😤
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Abel Ferrara’s Back Pages
By William Boyle
https://southwestreview.com/abel-ferraras-back-pages/
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#Wednesday
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