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“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….”

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