Dancing on the Edge of the Abyss: Goodisville 2025
BLOGS: 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 2025“The Kitchen-Sink Crime Drama: William Boyle on Saint of the Narrows Street” by WIlliam Blick
INTERVIEW: “I call it ‘kitchen sink crime drama.’ I was influenced by the realism of the 1950s and 1960s…novels, plays, and movies like Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, This Sporting Life, and Look Back in Anger. They are all a big influence on this work….”
Read More “The Kitchen-Sink Crime Drama: William Boyle on Saint of the Narrows Street” by WIlliam Blick“Too Much of a Noir Ending?: on Late Noir” by Anees Aref
REVIEW 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 Aref“From Sun to Sun and ‘Biblical Noir’: An Interview with Kenneth Wishnia” by William Blick
INTERVIEW: “One of my favorite types of ‘noir’ is the more “hopeful” one…’one more job and I am getting out’….The other type which is more relevant today is that there are ‘noble projects’ that are doomed from the beginning because of how things have been set up….”
Read More “From Sun to Sun and ‘Biblical Noir’: An Interview with Kenneth Wishnia” by William Blick“Honor” by J. D. Horn
FICTION: “There was a run of three years straight when Rose’s family came out on top, and Myrna’s six feet under. But then Myrna’s family had double wins, three times over a decade. The law of averages had held true….”
Read More “Honor” by J. D. Horn“Nobody’s Favorite: from Detroit Massacre” by Barry N. Malzberg (1939-2024, Writing as Mike Barry)
NOVEL EXCERPT: “I don’t want to be anyone’s favorite law enforcement officer. When you’re dealing with shit, the only enforcement is death….”
Read More “Nobody’s Favorite: from Detroit Massacre” by Barry N. Malzberg (1939-2024, Writing as Mike Barry)“A New Sensation: Elizabeth Fenwick’s Disturbance on Berry Hill/A Night Run” by William Blick
BOOK REVIEW: “Fenwick’s work is unlikely to shock audiences like sensation fiction had done to the Victorians, but the domestic realism and colorful characters are likely to engage the avid mystery aficionado.”
Read More “A New Sensation: Elizabeth Fenwick’s Disturbance on Berry Hill/A Night Run” by William Blick“The City as a Character: Andrew J. Rausch’s The Taking of New York City” by Brian Greene
BOOK REVIEW: “A comprehensive catalogue of NYC-centric crime movies from the 1970s….”
Read More “The City as a Character: Andrew J. Rausch’s The Taking of New York City” by Brian Greene“Hollywood Confidential: An Interview with Dan Bronson on Shout at the Devil” by Stephen Galloway
INTERVIEW: “Hollywood embodies the title of one of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s worst novels: it’s beautiful and it’s damned.”
Read More “Hollywood Confidential: An Interview with Dan Bronson on Shout at the Devil” by Stephen Galloway“Round Like a Circle in a Spiral: The Poster Art of Film Noir” by Marlisa Santos
REVIEW ESSAY: “As the movie-viewing public was becoming more comfortable with these kinds of filmic depictions, poster art, never to shy away from marketing hooks, aimed to tantalize prospective audiences with images that promised entrance into a suspenseful world of increasingly commonplace criminality and subversion of systemic stability….”
Read More “Round Like a Circle in a Spiral: The Poster Art of Film Noir” by Marlisa Santos
Retreats from Oblivion: The Journal of NoirCon 