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….”
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Retreats from Oblivion: The Journal of NoirCon
Noir, crime, and mystery short stories, scholarship, and so much more
BLOGS: “The screenwriter and author of Destiny Express and The Great Eastern to visit several cities….”
Read More Howard A. Rodman Book Tour: 5/19-7/19BLOGS: “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, HaddonfieldPercival 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-CamdenBLOGS: “A new collection featuring stories and poems in the tradition of Nosferatu and other silent expressionist classics….”
Read More New Collection Becoming Nosferatu Features Noir, Horror, and SF/FantasyBLOGS: “Seeking your honest, powerful reactions to what you see as crime, couched in poetic technique…”
Read More Five-Two: Poems on Crime to Relaunch in AprilBLOGS: Join the Goodis bus tour on March 2 when we’ll visit Philadelphia locations tied to the noir master….
Read More Dancing on the Edge of the Abyss: Goodisville 2025REVIEW ESSAY: “With their bold technical style and themes, Touch of Evil, Elevator to the Gallows, and other late-noirs discussed below opened the door for many later masters….”
Read More “Too Much of a Noir Ending?: on Late Noir” by Anees ArefBLOGS: “Its first anthology features unpublished stories by featured authors, including Peter Rabe and a novella by Jada M. Davis, along with reprints by Lionel White, Fredric Brown, Barry N. Malzberg, Day Keene, and others….”
Read More Stark House Press Celebrates its 25th Year with an AnthologyBLOGS: “Matthew Sorrento to introduce a screening of Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944) at The Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville, PA on Sunday, April 28, as part of The Road to Noir City Philadelphia 2024….”
Read More RFO Editor to Introduce a Screening of Double IndemnityFILM REVIEW: “A brutal tale of a hitman that is very effectively presented without excessive resort to shock violence….”
Read More “Complex Nuances in the Underworld: Dusk for a Hitman” by Ken Hall