Howard A. Rodman Book Tour: 5/19-7/19

BLOGS: “The screenwriter and author of Destiny Express and The Great Eastern to visit several cities….”

“The Endearing and the Enduring: On The Companion Guide to The Godfather Trilogy” by William Blick

BOOK REVIEW: “An incisive look at the films through the lens of a scholar, critic, and fan….”

“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….”

RFO 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.”

“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….”

Percival 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.

“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….”

“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….”

Preview: “Home Invasion Horrors” by William Blick

ARTICLE PREVIEW: “The last word on this niche genre, with a dense amount of information….”

Preview: “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…..”