Let’s go Knicks. youtu.be/HwH6hLMuUF8

Orange and blue skies! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...

Ok here’s the plan: —win the lottery for Phoebe Bridgers tickets —find a ceiling panel or crawlspace in which I can live undetected for four days —$1 Knicks Finals ticket

Scout Tafoya on Lynn Shelton and her underrated 2014 movie LAGGIES. Meeting Lynn briefly on the set of SWORD OF TRUST in Birmingham (thanks to my pal Jack) was one of the highlights of my life. Always thankful for her work and always beyond sad she’s gone. www.rogerebert.com/the-unloved/...

@willsaintg.bsky.social of the Narrows Street is a familiar story, but the deftness in depicting character and unflinching in how he shows the consequences corrode our main cast over decades makes the tragic story hit with real force. Up there with Lehane as a gutting tragedy masking as crime.

I’m not on Threads, so can someone please tell Stephen King that I read Salem’s Lot in fifth grade and therefore this is all his fault?

GREAT album. charlottecornfield.bandcamp.com/album/hurts-...

THE NEW YORK KNICKS ARE HEADED TO THEIR FIRST NBA FINALS SINCE 1999 🔥 The Knicks win their 11th straight game, secure their 2nd consecutive 4-0 series win, and advance to the NBA Finals for the 1st time in 27 years! They will take on the winner of Thunder/Spurs.

Zachary Weg interviewed me and wrote about SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET for the Brooklyn Star. Thanks so much, Zach! brooklyndowntownstar.com/news_ql/prof...

Two of the best albums of the year came out yesterday. In heavy rotation around here.

I talked Joan Crawford with my pal @filmintuition.bsky.social. The three films I chose to discuss were HUMORESQUE, SUDDEN FEAR, and JOHNNY GUITAR, but we also spoke more broadly about Crawford’s life and career. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks for having me, Jen!

Criterion putting out LITTLE ODESSA is the best damn news. Between this and the reception PAPER TIGER has gotten at Cannes, it’s great to see James Gray getting the recognition he’s long deserved. One of my biggest artistic heroes.

Habt ihr auch Autor*innen, die bei euch auf der Extraspur direkt am Rest des SUB vorbeiziehen? William Boyle @wmboyle4.bsky.social ist bei mir einer davon. Sein neuer Brooklyn-Roman wird also sofort gelesen #sub #booksky #lesen #krimi #brooklyn #bookstagramgermany #polarverlag #crime #noir

Look, you can make your little jokes but Pantoliano Syndrome is no laughing matter.

Just picked up my preorders of these two reissues at Square Books. The Eugene Manlove Rhodes book is from University of New Mexico Press (PASÓ POR AQUÍ is the novella John Sayles has adapted for his forthcoming film I PASSED THIS WAY). Joan Silber’s IN THE CITY is from Hagfish.

Patrick Wang’s A. RIMBAUD is my most anticipated movie of the year. www.screenslate.com/articles/fun...

Have long loved the movie, which is a masterpiece, so I finally read the book (picked up this copy last year at Lucky Dog in Dallas), also a masterpiece. Need to get more by Edna Sherry.

Oh man, best damn news. John Sayles is finally making another movie! It’s a Western called I PASSED THIS WAY, based on Eugene Manlove Rhodes’s PASÓ POR AQUÍ, starring Amy Madigan and Chris Cooper. variety.com/2026/film/gl...

SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET is out today in Germany!

New James Gray! www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

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LETTY LYNTON and LAST SUMMER coming to Blu-ray on the same day (6/30) from Warner Archive!

5/8/92: Carl Franklin's stunning masterpiece One False Move w/Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Cynda Williams From us, via Cineaste: midcenturycinema.org/wp-content/u... More: @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social: www.vulture.com/article/one-... @wmboyle4.bsky.social: www.criterion.com/current/post...

I wrote about Leonard Cohen’s “Everybody Knows” in PUMP UP THE VOLUME for @southwestreview.bsky.social’s Needle Drops column. Read it here: southwestreview.com/volume-111-n...

Whether @alisongaylin.bsky.social is writing Sunny Randall books or her own sui generis crime novels, you can't go wrong reading Alison Gaylin.

I wrote about Leonard Cohen’s “Everybody Knows” in PUMP UP THE VOLUME for @southwestreview.bsky.social’s Needle Drops column. Read it here: southwestreview.com/volume-111-n...

“Society is rotten to its core. You’re being lied to. The routines and the rituals are bullshit. It’s a broken world, getting more broken every day.” In the latest NEEDLE DROPS, @wmboyle4.bsky.social digs into Leonard Cohen's EVERYBODY KNOWS from PUTV 🎞️ southwestreview.com/volume-111-n...

truly my honor to write a mini review of @jordanharper.bsky.social's incredible A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE for our @nymag.com book gossip newsletter. buy the book! and subscribe to book gossip here: nymag.com/promo/book-g...

Tony Stella has died. He was a brilliant artist & kind friend. When I began writing for @brightwalldarkroom.com, he was my 1st artistic collaborator, & his art--vivid, dreamy, evocative--made my scribblings seem professional. Intense, passionate, & dedicated to his craft like few I've ever known.

RIP Tony Stella. Incredible artist. So thankful for his work.

Guys, ANGEL DOWN won the Pulitzer Prize. Let’s get nuts.

One of the few truly good things about life in the 21st century is simply turning around and there's a new Barry Gifford book

Got the new one from hero and pal Barry Gifford in the mail, THE EXCEPTION: UNCLE BUCK’S BOOK OF IRREPRESSIBLE NAVIGATION. Out 5/12 from @sevenstories.bsky.social. Uncle Buck is such a killer character. And that Jim Harrison blurb is an all-timer.

Now reading. Joan as noir auteur. Damn good.

Been on a pretty incredible run of first-time watches lately.

Frank and Eleanor Perry’s magnificent film LAST SUMMER has finally been restored, and will be playing the @paristheaternyc.bsky.social this Sunday. You have to see it. www.vulture.com/article/last...

NEW EPISODE! On the eve of the publication of his acclaimed new novel A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE, we are joined by Edgar award-winning novelist @jordanharper.bsky.social to talk about one of his favorite movies: the 1981 sword-and-sorcery smash CONAN THE BARBARIAN. pod.link/1274489817/e...

The New York Times profile of @jordanharper.bsky.social is the only NYT profile I’ve ever seen that begins like this: “COKE! SEX! LIES!” Read it, then read his new book, A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE, out April 28th. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/b...

Unveiling of Bill Beckwith’s Larry Brown sculpture at Morgan Park in Oxford this afternoon. Moving as hell. Beyond thankful for his work, which drew me to this town.

Oxford folks: pal and hero Willy Vlautin reads on Thacker tomorrow! Hope to see you there!

What’s up www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/b...

Good morning. Let's make some *good* news! Coming this spring to #WatchWithJen pod.

Jordan has written the great Los Angeles crime novel of the 21st Century. Truth in advertising:

Look: A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE by Jordan Harper book trailer directed by Ijaaz Noohu youtu.be/T-vgZmWN5-w?...

Willy Vlautin: “If you want to read working class fiction, you have to read crime novels…” www.npr.org/2026/04/18/n...

My short story “Arlene” from the Hitchcock anthology is longlisted for a Dagger! Great company. Thanks to Maxim Jakubowski!

O avalanche, will you take me with you when you fall? - Baudelaire, “The longing for nothingness” I stepped into an avalanche and it covered up my soul - Leonard Cohen