Writer. New novel, SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET, out now from Soho Crime. https://linktr.ee/wmboyle4
I haven’t seen THE ODYSSEY yet, but both Matt Damon and Christopher Nolan picked Carl Franklin’s ONE FALSE MOVE (which features a liner note essay by me!) in the Criterion Closet, which is pretty damn swell. m.youtube.com/shorts/ing6l...
Christopher Nolan & Matt Damon Pick ONE FALSE MOVE | On 4K+Blu-ray from CriterionYouTube video by CRITERIONm.youtube.comOne of my favorite photographers. hyperallergic.com/helen-levitt...
Helen Levitt Captured the Poetry of New York CityA new survey publication serves as a testament to the photographer’s belief that the city’s working-class communities of color possessed a beauty and drama all their own.hyperallergic.comThis album is so damn great. Takes weird chances. Raw and strange and lovely. Hard to find something to compare it to—maybe The Fall meets Frightened Rabbit with a little bit of Daniel Johnston mixed in there. menzies.bandcamp.com/album/holdin...
Holding My Cold Hand, Even Though Yours Is Warm, by Menzies15 track albummenzies.bandcamp.comNovelist Joseph O’Connor (Sinéad’s brother) on THE CATCHER IN THE RYE. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
‘I felt Holden was talking to me alone’: The Catcher in the Rye at 75JD Salinger’s wry, subversive classic inspired novelist Joseph O’Connor to be a writer. He reflects on why this story of a disaffected teenager remains as fresh and transgressive as everwww.theguardian.com
My friend, Brooklyn Bard & fellow Calabrian countryman @wmboyle4.bsky.social is 1 of literary character driven crime fiction’s best kept secrets. His work reads like a collaboration of John Fante & Sidney Lumet. Neighborhood pasta dinners with secret sauce & a side of mischief. Out January 2027.
Great mail day! Recieved an ARC of @wmboyle4.bsky.social 's forthcoming novel, HEAVY SUGAR from soho press. I believe it comes out in February of 2027. Bill is a good friend, glad to have his latest. I'm looking forward to digging in right after I finish a Tom McGuane novel.
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‘We were kids dressed as gangsters, running riot’ – Alan Parker’s Bugsy Malone at 50, by its cast and crewJodie Foster hated her 6am starts, Parker couldn’t stop swearing, Dexter Fletcher was traumatised by his haircut … There was as much drama off-screen as on during the making of this classic moviewww.theguardian.com
