“Pi AI” by Matthew Sorrento

POETRY: “at first, raw dreams…tragic if / he can no longer see them….”

RFO Editor to Introduce a Screening of The Burglar at The Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville, PA

BLOGS: “Matthew Sorrento to introduce a screening of The Burglar (Paul Wendkos, 1957), adapted by David Goodis from his 1953 novel, at The Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville, PA on Sunday, May 17….”

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.”

New Collection Becoming Nosferatu Features Noir, Horror, and SF/Fantasy

BLOGS: “A new collection featuring stories and poems in the tradition of Nosferatu and other silent expressionist classics….”

RFO Editor to Introduce a Screening of Double Indemnity

BLOGS: “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….”

Somebody’s Done For by David Goodis (Excerpt)

NOVEL EXCERPT: “What it all amounts to, he told himself, is you’re not in shape for a deal like this. You get involved in this sort of thing, you should be properly prepared. I mean mentally, too. It’s a cinch you’re not prepared mentally, because now I’d say you’re just about ready to give up….”

“No Escape: Three Noir Executions” by Matthew Sorrento

PROSE POEM: “They live on to die, forever….”

“Hard Case Crime, April 2022: It’s Westlake!” by Matthew Sorrento

NONFICTION: “As the renown imprint presents the last unpublished novel by the author, it delivers one of his most unique and rewarding….”

“Writing from an Illusion: Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)” by Matthew Sorrento

NONFICTION: “The Hammett detective seeks any clues he can but is unable to recreate narratives through induction/deduction, hence his need to shake things up and unlock loose parts in the disorder he has confronted….”