Preview: “Home Invasion Horrors” by William Blick

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

“Vivid Evocations and Deadly Revelations: Manhattan Death Ballad” by WIlliam Blick

BOOK REVIEW: “Jakubowski in the end absolutely triumphs with his rhapsodic prose….”

“Keeping the Flame Alive: Dan Bronson’s Shout at the Devil” by WIlliam Blick

BOOK REVIEW: “A return to these origins is refreshing as compared to many of the contributions to the current state of the crime novel….”

“Murder, Mayhem, and Music: 120 Murders” by William Blick

BOOK REVIEW: “Chock full of beautiful, at times frightening and enchanting, and always iconoclastic tales, featuring heavy-hitting genre authors at the top of their games….”

“An Auteur’s High Points –The Greatest Gangster Movie You’ve Never Seen: Abel Ferrara’s The Funeral” by William Blick

BOOK REVIEW: “A candid and insightful look into Ferrara’s creative process….”

“Preview: It Lives! Andrew Repasky McElhinney on A Chronicle of Corpses” by William Blick

PREVIEW: “Aren’t all genre films structuralist in nature? Isn’t everyone either obeying or disobeying genre conventions?”

“Destined to Remember: Anthony Giacchino on The True Crimes of Black Hand New York Podcast” by William Blick

INTERVIEW: “I think that there is an untold story about immigration in the country. When you hear about immigration, it is used politically…. It is more that there has always been a history of tension when groups of new people come to this country….”

“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….”

“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….”

“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.”