Somehow initially missed this Doc Pomus box set from Omnivore when it came out last year. It’s beyond wonderful. omnivorerecordings.com/shop/you-can...
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Somehow initially missed this Doc Pomus box set from Omnivore when it came out last year. It’s beyond wonderful. omnivorerecordings.com/shop/you-can...
“PLACES IN THE HEART is one of the great films of the 1980s, and the greatest Texas movie of all time.”
Read @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social on director Robert Benton's forgotten masterpiece 💥
southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...
"He was mesmerizing: six feet, six inches of pale, balding, spindly-limbed magnificence, hands moving as if he were plucking words from the air like his Heat character did with data. Sometimes he’d have a big beard that sat on his chest like a new species of pet." www.rogerebert.com/mzs/a-beauti...
Here’s a short essay I wrote about THE GETAWAY last year. crimereads.com/william-boyl...
More great mail. I first saw RAFFERTY AND THE GOLD DUST TWINS when it aired on TCM Underground back in May 2021–it instantly became an all-time favorite. Finally picked up the recently-released Warner Archive Blu-ray. Also remembered that I grabbed the novelization a while ago—such a beautiful book.
Incredible mail day. Thanks to LOA for sending along a copy of their new Jim Thompson volume, which collects five of his best novels. It’s gorgeous. Beyond glad to see him getting the treatment he deserves. Out officially tomorrow. Go get it. www.loa.org/books/five-n...
The making of Fargo at 30: ‘Man, you don’t give me this role, I’m gonna shoot your dog’
One of the Unloved, an incredible film. youtu.be/IpPsSqR00ho?...
David Chase’s NOT FADE AWAY was already an all-time favorite and one of the truest movies I know, but the black-and-white version (now on @criterionchannl.bsky.social) still managed to be a total revelation. Makes it all work even better. Difficult for me to articulate how much it moves me.
Now reading (after completing another full rewatch)
I don’t think I’m officially supposed to announce anything yet, so let’s just say you’re on the right track.
What a goddamn lineup—honored to be part of it. Hope to see you in Dallas in April.
Here’s an interview I did with French music writer Ben Langlois about the music that’s shaped me and the music in my books. He’s included a French translation of the interview, as well as the original in English. This was a lot of fun.
m.indierockmag.com/article38816...
WE ARE WATCHING -- now out in paperback -- is on this splendid list! (along with @josephfinderbooks.bsky.social, @wmboyle4.bsky.social and many more!)
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James McWilliams, Frank Stanford’s biographer, on my other favorite poet, Everette Maddox. This is a terrific intro to his life and work (and features many of his poems, including “Hypothetical Self-Epitaph,” which is one I think about every damn day). www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/177...
Glamour headshot of Sheridan with large text at bottom of image.
Ann Sheridan, “Will ‘Oomph’ Title Help or Harm Her?” — Motion Picture, July 1939
#BOTD 1915
Four albums that have been getting me through this week.
Thank you so much! Truly appreciate the great words.
@wmboyle4.bsky.social I'm a little late to the party, but god damn! A banger from start to finish. Beautifully done, sir.
New issue of @southwestreview.bsky.social is a stunner. It features a Needle Drops column where @meganabbott.bsky.social writes about Enya’s “Marble Halls” in THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social on PLACES IN THE HEART, & much more. 6 bucks a copy. southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...
“He still believes his people can be romantic heroes…”
Beautiful Unloved video essay by Scout Tafoya on Alan Rudolph’s beautiful late masterpiece RAY MEETS HELEN (for my money, one of the best and most underrated movies of the last decade). www.rogerebert.com/the-unloved/...
“Seventy-six pretty perfect minutes. A fairytale from the gutter.” 🕳️
Read @wmboyle4.bsky.social on his top movie recs for this month in the latest I WAKE UP STREAMING 🍿
southwestreview.com/i-wake-up-st...
Thanks, man!
Thank you so much! Truly appreciate it! Next one’s coming in early 2027.
Great to see SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET in the Washington Post’s paperback roundup. Thanks to Krista Farrell for the heads up (and the pictures of the print edition). And thanks again to E.A. Aymar for the great words in his original review. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2026/0...
Hope to see you in Dallas in April! This is gonna be special!
David Lynch left us one year ago exactly. A few days after his death, we recorded a tribute episode with @harleypeyton.bsky.social, @ramseycampbell.bsky.social, Brian Yuzna, @wmboyle4.bsky.social, and Knut Larsson, who shared their thoughts and memories about Lynch's lasting legacy. 🔥
I can already tell that this is gonna be one of those movies that I evangelize about for the rest of my life.
