“You think I could’ve been good?”: On Homeboy
I Wake Up Streaming, Southwest Review: #1: July 2020, #2: August 2020, #3: September 2020, #4: October 2020 (I Wake Up Screaming)
“I Don’t Feel Anything… Except Lost”: Steve Buscemi’s Trees Lounge as Melancholy Hangout Movie, Medium
Small Acts of Life: A Conversation with Courtney Marie Andrews, Southwest Review
On Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster’s Take Heart, Take Care
“Screwball Noir: A Personal History,” Criminal Element
A Friend Is a Gift You Give Yourself Film Festival, CrimeReads
“A Bible of Bad Men,” The Strand Magazine
A Darkened Room #2: Love Streams, with Jimmy Cajoleas, Southwest Review
“It’s Later Than You Think,” Oxford American
A Darkened Room #1: First Reformed, with Jimmy Cajoleas, Southwest Review
“Wandering/Wondering,” Oxford American
“Writing New York City Noir to the Sound of Lou Reed,” CrimeReads
“This Small Corner,” Oxford American
Review of Stephen Mack Jones’s August Snow, The Clarion-Ledger
“You Can Find Your Voice By Loving Things,” Oxford American
“Chewing on Toothpicks,” Oxford American
“Only the Dead Know Brooklyn,” CrimeReads
Review of Michael Kardos’s Bluff, The Clarion-Ledger
“Chart of Obsessions,” Oxford American
“If the Blues Are Your Hunter,” Oxford American
On the Genius of Daniel Woodrell, the “Battle-Hardened Bard of Meth Country,” Literary Hub
Talking about Rectify and Horace and Pete, The Killing Times
CriMemoir, Hardboiled Wonderland
“Fulani Journey: Guelel Kumba’s Afrissippi Food Truck,” Gravy (Winter 2016)
“Lost in a Haunted Wood: Remembering the Holiday Cocktail Lounge,” Medium
“Mystery Train: Making and Unmaking in the Rough South,” Gravy
“‘The Cock that Crowed’: Love and Failure in the Rough South of Charles Willeford,” Crime Factory 10
Julien Baker’s Sprained Ankle, The End of All Music blog
Craig Finn’s Faith in the Future and Okkervil River’s Black Sheep Boy, The End of All Music blog
Beach Slang’s The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us, The End of All Music blog
“Build Shit Right”: A Lost Interview with Water Liars, No Depression
“The Dave Van Ronk of SEC Country”: On Jake Xerxes Fussell, No Depression
“Magic Against Death”: Mississippi’s Water Liars, No Depression (originally Lent)
“Albums of Our Lives: Songs Ohia’s Magnolia Electric Co.” for The Rumpus
Review of Lori Jakiela’s Belief is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe, New Orleans Review
Review of Michael Kardos’s Before He Finds Her, The Clarion-Ledger
Review of Willy Vlautin’s The Free, L.A. Review of Books
Review of Mary Miller’s The Last Days of California, L.A. Review of Books
Review of Sara Gran’s Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway, L.A. Review of Books
Review of Scott Phillips’s Rake, L.A. Review of Books
Review of Dave Newman’s The Slaughterhouse Poems, Cleaver Magazine
Review of Shawn Vestal’s Godforsaken Idaho, L.A. Review of Books
Review of Richard Lange’s Angel Baby, L.A. Review of Books
Review of Owen King’s Double Feature, Salon
Review of Owen King’s Double Feature, L.A. Review of Books
Review of Karen Russell’s Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Salon
Review of Karen Russell’s Vampires in the Lemon Grove, L.A. Review of Books
Review of Michael Kimball’s Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (On a Postcard), Sundog Lit
Review of Stephen Romano’s Resurrection Express, Grift
Review of Dave Newman’s Raymond Carver Will Not Raise Our Children, Vol. 1 Brooklyn
Review of Dylan Nice’s Other Kinds, Vol. 1 Brooklyn
Review of Mischa Hiller’s Shake Off, Mulholland Books (originally appeared in Grift)
Review of John Oliver Hodges’s War of the Crazies, The Writing Disorder
Sisters (1973), Goodbye Like a Bullet
Raw Deal (1948), Out of the Gutter
We Own the Night (2007), Out of the Gutter
The Yakuza (1974/75), Goodbye Like a Bullet
Underrated Brooklyn Crime Movies, Out of the Gutter
The Seven-Ups (1973), Goodbye Like a Bullet
Animal Kingdom (2010), Out of the Gutter
The Getaway (1972), Goodbye Like a Bullet
Narc (2002), Out of the Gutter
Act of Violence (1948), Out of the Gutter
Prime Cut (1972), Goodbye Like a Bullet
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