“Nearing Woods Hole: From Silver Moon Rising” by A. M. Potter
NOVEL EXCERPT: “His heart skipped a beat. He plunged headfirst into Vineyard Sound like a diving bird….”
Read More “Nearing Woods Hole: From Silver Moon Rising” by A. M. PotterRFO Editor Matthew Sorrento in Conversation with Novelist Jacinda Townsend, 4/3/26, Inkwood Books, Haddonfield
BLOGS: “She’d gotten no trigger warning. And her entire life, she wanted to scream now, had deserved a trigger warning. Searing, surprisingly witty, and deeply human, Trigger Warning is a novel about the durational aftermath of anti-Black police violence.”
Read More RFO Editor Matthew Sorrento in Conversation with Novelist Jacinda Townsend, 4/3/26, Inkwood Books, Haddonfield“On the Mean Streets of Tulsa: FX’s The Lowdown” by Anees Aref
REVIEW: “Lee Raybon calls himself a “truth storian” [p]layed by Ethan Hawke as a cross between Hunter S. Thompson and Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe….”
Read More “On the Mean Streets of Tulsa: FX’s The Lowdown” by Anees ArefPercival Everett, Author of Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel James and the Thriller The Trees, to Appear at Rutgers University-Camden
Percival Everett will appear at Rutgers University-Camden on Thursday, March 26, 2026 | 6:00 p.m.
Read More Percival Everett, Author of Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel James and the Thriller The Trees, to Appear at Rutgers University-Camden“Guts, Grit, and Glorious Pulp: Edward S. Aarons’ Death in a Lighthouse and Murder Money” by William Blick
BOOK REVIEW: “Aarons’ work is full of many skillful riffs as seen in this pair of rollicking page-burners….”
Read More “Guts, Grit, and Glorious Pulp: Edward S. Aarons’ Death in a Lighthouse and Murder Money” by William Blick“American Psychos” by Vince A. Liaguno
POETRY: “Cinema and psycho, a fine-tuned formula / of violence and charisma—time-honored and as popular / as warm apple pie on Thanksgiving….”
Read More “American Psychos” by Vince A. LiagunoPreview: “Home Invasion Horrors” by William Blick
ARTICLE PREVIEW: “The last word on this niche genre, with a dense amount of information….”
Read More Preview: “Home Invasion Horrors” by William BlickPreview: “from Build My Gallows High to Out of the Past” by Jeremy Carr
ARTICLE PREVIEW: “If there is a lesson to be learned from noir stories, be they in print or filmed, it is that the past never stays in the past for long, and the inevitably ill-fated future closes in faster than expected…..”
Read More Preview: “from Build My Gallows High to Out of the Past” by Jeremy Carr“The Brass Ring” by Lance Mason
FICTION: “As Tito stepped forward with the pistol in hand, it seemed Corlett’s friend, the quiet, suspicious winemaker, had been right….”
Read More “The Brass Ring” by Lance Mason“Something as Big as the Moon: from The Moon Has Fallen into a Well” by Vincent Czyz
SHORT STORY EXCERPT: “He’s so concerned for the way he thinks things should be, he forgets a man can’t move something as big as the Moon….”
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Retreats from Oblivion: The Journal of NoirCon 