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Note: Not complete, but pretty darned close...
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Pulp Serenade, established in 2008, is a personal glimpse into my obsession with pulp, noir, and western fiction and films, with reviews, interviews, and pictures from my ever-expanding book collection
Books
As Author
High Flyers, Middleweights, and Low Lifes: A Critical Companion to David Goodis's Pulp Fiction (2024, Pulp Serenade Press, forthcoming)
King Vidor in Focus: On the Filmmaker's Artistry and Vision (August 2024, McFarland Books, co-authored with Kevin L. Stoehr)
Looking for Lost Streets: A Bibliographic Investigation of David Goodis's Pulp Fiction (2024, Pulp Serenade Press)
As Contributor
"The Swing and the Follow Through: Ed Lacy’s Breathe No More My Lady and The Big Shakedown" in Breathe No More My Lady /The Big Shakedown (Stark House Press, July 2024)
“Tickets to Hell: The Infernal Journeys of Harry Whittington’s A Woman Possessed and Prime Sucker” in A Woman Possessed / Prime Sucker (Stark House Press, August 2023)
"Murder Party: The Violent World of Lionel White" in Invitation to Violence / A Party to Murder (Stark House Press, June 2022)
"All Roads Lead to Crime: W.R. Burnett’s High Sierra and The Asphalt Jungle" in High Sierra / The Asphalt Jungle (Stark House Press, May 2022)
"Peter Rabe's Bookends: Stop This Man! and Tobruk" in Stop This Man! / Tobruk by Peter Rabe (Stark House Press, October 2021)
Review of The Dirty War of Sergeant Slade (Lou Cameron), Doomsday Mission (Harry Whittington), Gresham's War (William Crawford), Hell to Eternity (Edward S. Aarons), and Skylark Mission (Ian MacAlister) in Paperbacks at War: 20th Century Conflict from the Front Lines of Vintage Paperbacks, Pulps and Comics edited by Justin Marriott (June 2021)
"A Matter of Time: Looking Back at Lionel White" in Steal Big / The Big Caper by Lionel White (Stark House Press, May 2021)
"Run For Your Life: Day Keene's Wrong Men" in Dead Man's Tide / The Dangling Carrot / The Big Kiss-Off by Day Keene (Stark House Press, January 2021)
“Wolf Moon” in 52 Weeks 52 Western Novels: Old Favorites and New Discoveries, edited by Scott Harris and Paul Bishop (2017)
“Samuel Fuller and The Big Red One: An Interview with Thys Ockersen” in Screen Slate: New York City Cinema 2011-2015, edited by Jon Dieringer (Screen Slate, 2017)
“Coffy” in Cult Cinema, edited by Anthony Nield (Arrow, 2016)
“Timepieces: The New Old Worlds of Rick Ollerman” in Turnabout / Shallow Secrets by Rick Ollerman (Stark House Press, 2014)
“The Desert, The Prairie, and The Gutter: The Noir Novels of Clifton Adams” in Death’s Sweet Song / Whom Gods Destroy by Clifton Adams (Stark House Press, 2014)
“Sailor’s Lady,” “Surrender,” and “Hold Back the Dawn” in Allan Dwan: A Dossier, edited by David Pheps and Gina Telaroli (Lumière 2013)
“Pulp Art: An Appreciation” in Beat to a Pulp: Round 2 (Beat to a Pulp Press, 2012)
“A History of Pulp” in Beat to a Pulp: Round 1 (Beat to a Pulp Press, 2010)
As Editor
NoirCon 2016 Program
Retreat to Goodisville 2015 Program — I also contributed the program’s “Introduction” and an essay, “Lost and Found: Goodis in the Pulps”
Noir Riot (co-editor) (Gutter Books, 2014) — An anthology of 23 noir short stories by writers including Ken Bruen and Bill Crider. I also contributed the collection’s “Introduction”
NoirCon 2014 Program
NoirCon 2012 Program
As Proofreader
Another Woman’s House by Mignon Eberhart (Mysterious Press)
The Bohemian Connection by Susan Dunlap (Open Road)
Death of a Courier by Marc Olden (Open Road)
Diane Arbus: A Biography by Patricia Bosworth (Open Road)
Protocol for a Kidnapping by Ross Thomas (Open Road)
Essays/Criticism
“Becoming Day Keene: The Pre-Pulp Career of Gunard Hjertstedt,” Los Angeles Review of Books, March 6, 2021
“Bradbury Noir: The Crimes of a Science Fiction Master,” Los Angeles Review of Books, November 24, 2020
"Born to Lose" (Review of Little Men, Big World / Vanity Row by W.R. Burnett), The Life Sentence October 12, 2015
"All the Colors of the Dark" (Review of Ruthless by John Rector), The Life Sentence, July 6, 2015
“Lost and Found Goodis in the Pulps,” NoirCon's Retreat to Goodisville, March 2015
“The Criminal Kind: Noir Women,” Los Angeles Review of Books, May 30, 2014
“The Criminal Kind: Dennis Palumbo’s Night Terrors,” Los Angeles Review of Books, May 27, 2014
“The Criminal Kind: Attica Locke’s Cutting Season,” Los Angeles Review of Books, May 21, 2014
“Dr. Mabuse the Gambler,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, March 12, 2014
“The Wandering Shadow,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, March 7, 2014
“Silent Lang,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, March 3, 2014
“Rambo,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, July 21, 2013
“Sun Don’t Shine: Flight to Darkness,” Hammer to Nail, April 29, 2013
“The Shooting,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, April 3, 2013
“Ride in the Whirlwind,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, April 2, 2013
“The Sun Worshippers / Yellowleg by A. S. Fleischman,” Spinetingler Magazine, March 6, 2013
“Seduction of the Innocent by Max Allan Collins,” Spinetingler Magazine, March 5, 2013
“Dark, Darker, Darkest: New and Republished Crime” (Reviews of One is a Lonely Number by Bruce Elliott, Black Wings Has My Angel by Elliott Chaze, Gunshots in Another Room by Charles Kelly, The Bughouse Affair by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini, Kinsmen by Bill Pronzini, and Femme by Bill Pronzini), Los Angeles Review of Books, February 10, 2013
“Noir Mann,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, February 5, 2013
“Railroaded,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, February 4, 2013
“He Walked By Night,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, January 24, 2013
“Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet: Survival of the Shreddest,” Hammer to Nail, December 13, 2012
“The Madonna and the Dragon,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, December 4, 2012
“The Day of Reckoning,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, December 3, 2012
“Park Row,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, November 28, 2012
“The Criminal Kind: Bardsley, Piccirilli, Woods” (Reviews of Cash Out by Greg Bardsley, The Last Kind Words by Tom Piccirilli, and A Death in Mexico by Jonathan Woods), Los Angeles Review of Books, November 26, 2012
“Samuel Fuller: Deep Cuts,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, November 22, 2012
“Habit,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, October 29, 2012
“Christmas Holiday,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, August 21, 2012
“Once a Thief,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, July 26, 2012
“Rogue’s Gallery: Posters – the good and the bad” (co-written with Jake Hinkson and Eric Beetner), Spinetingler Magazine, June 27, 2012
“From page to screen, for better or worse” (co-written with Jake Hinkson and Eric Beetner), Spinetingler Magazine, April 26, 2012
“Voyeuristic Pleasures” (Reviews of Kings of Midnight by Wallace Stroby, And She Was by Alison Gaylin, Edge of Dark Water by Joe R. Lansdale, The Next One to Fall by Hilary Davidson, Dead Harvest by Chris F. Holm, and Blood on the Mink by Robert Silverberg), Los Angeles Review of Books, March 31, 2012
“Rogue’s Gallery: The Last Noir” (co-written with Jake Hinkson and Eric Beetner), Spinetingler Magazine, March 23, 2012
“The Criminal Kind: Ed Gorman,” Los Angeles Review of Books, March 22, 2012
“The Criminal Kind: Christa Faust,” Los Angeles Review of Books, March 22, 2012
“Rogue’s Gallery: Noir’s Unlikely Tough Guys” (co-written with Jake Hinkson and Eric Beetner), Spinetingler Magazine, March 10, 2012
“The Sidewalk Vs. The Penthouse: which is more Noir?” (co-written with Jake Hinkson and Eric Beetner), Spinetingler Magazine, February 8, 2012
“Rogue’s Gallery: The definitive Noir Director?” (co-written with Jake Hinkson and Eric Beetner), Spinetingler Magazine, January 26, 2012
“Noir Enough?” (Review of Hell on Church Street by Jake Hinkson), Los Angeles Review of Books, January 23, 2012
“Occasional PI” (Review of Hurt Machine by Reed Farrel Coleman), Los Angeles Review of Books, January 23, 2012
“Mysterious Thugs” (Review of Already Gone by John Rector), Los Angeles Review of Books, January 23, 2012
“Warlords and Tycoons” (Review of Bloodland by Alan Glynn), Los Angeles Review of Books, January 23, 2012
“King of the Paperbacks” (Review of Rapture Alley / Winter Girl / Strictly for the Boys by Harry Whittington), Los Angeles Review of Books, January 23, 2012
“Saddle Up” (Review of Crazy Horse by Frederick Wiseman), Our Town Downtown, January 18, 2012
“Top Films Seen Below 14th St.,” Our Town Downtown, December 28, 2011
“The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future,” Los Angeles Review of Books, December 23, 2011
“Silent Film Series at Film Forum,” Our Town Downtown, November 23rd, 2011
“Without: In Search of Lost Time,” Hammer to Nail, November 18, 2011
“Director Werner Herzog Visits Death Row,” Our Town Downtown, November 9, 2011
“Farewell, Friend,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, November 8, 2011
“Mr. Majestyk,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, November 3, 2011
“Bronson,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, November 2, 2011
“Westworld,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, October 1, 2011
“Hard Stuff” (Reviews of Fun & Games by Duane Swierczynski, The Pack by Jason Starr, The End of Everything by Megan Abbott, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran, and Kiss Her Goodbye by Mickey Spillane), Los Angeles Review of Books, September 17, 2011
“Adventures of Cash Laramie and Gideon Miles by Edward Grainger,” Spinetingler Magazine, July 28, 2011
“Hidden Gems: The New York Ripper,” Hammer to Nail, July 20, 2011
“More Dead Than Alive,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, July 8, 2011
“NY Asian Film Festival” (BKO: Bangkok Knockout, Bedeviled, Machete Maidens Unleashed, and The Man From Nowhere), Alt Screen, July 1, 2011
“Terri: The Wine of Youth,” Hammer to Nail, June 30, 2011
“Fresh Pulp and Geezer Noir” (Reviews of Damn Near Dead 2: Live Noir or Die Trying edited by Bill Crider, By Hook or By Crook, and 30 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, The Best American Noir of the Century co-edited by Otto Penzler and James Ellroy, and The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories edited by Otto Penzler), Los Angeles Review of Books, June 23, 2011
“Premiere Brazil! at MoMA and P.S.1,″ Alt Screen, July 14, 2011
“Note to Self: Try Not to Kill Boyfriend Today” (review of Reversion), The L Magazine, June 8, 2011
“The Gift of Gab: Speaking Fields,” Alt Screen, April 30, 2011
“W. C. Fields in The Fatal Glass of Beer,” Alt Screen, April 25, 2011
“The Con-Man Philosopher and the Everyday Sucker: W.C. Fields’ Cheat-or-Be-Cheated Comic Persona,” Alt Screen, April 22, 2011
“Girlfriends,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, March 14, 2011
“Art On Tape: Selections from MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight 2011” (co-written with Leo Goldsmith and Rachael Rakes), The Brooklyn Rail, March 4, 2011
“What a Life,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, February 28, 2011
“Five Graves to Cairo,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, February 24, 2011
“That Certain Age,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, February 22, 2011
“Putty Hill: Serendipitous Encounters,” Hammer to Nail, February 17, 2011
“On the Harrowing Domesticity of Fritz Lang’s Clash By Night, Playing Tonight,” The L Magazine, February 7, 2011
“The True (or False) Grit of the First Woman-Made Western,” Keyframe (Fandor), January 31, 2011
“The Other Fritz Lang: Cowboys, swashbucklers, and guerrillas in the noir master’s non-noir films,” Moving Image Source, January 27, 2011
“Hickey & Boggs,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, January 19, 2011
“Takemitsu: Like John Cage, if John Cage Scored Samurai Movies,” The L Magazine, December 3, 2010
“Pastorale by James M. Cain from Best American Noir of the Century,” Spinetingler Magazine, November 18, 2010
“Helena from the Wedding: Married Life,” Hammer to Nail, November 11, 2010
“Ne Change Rien: Musicians Working,” Hammer to Nail, November 3, 2010
“Netflix Hidden Gems: 80 Minutes or Less: The Wild Blue Yonder,” Hammer to Nail, October 29, 2010
“Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and The Magnetic Fields: Pop Grandeur,” Hammer to Nail, October 27, 2010
“Open Five: Nights and Weekends,” Hammer to Nail, October 26, 2010
“The Canal Street Madam: Sex, Family, Politics,” Hammer to Nail, October 19, 2010
“Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, August 18, 2010
“The Blue Angel,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, August 17, 2010
“The Top Film Criticism Sites: An Annotated Blog Roll: Strictly Film School,” Film Comment, July/August, 2010
“Minnie and Moskowitz,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, May 17, 2010
“Confidentially Yours!,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, April 24, 2010
“The Moonlighter,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, April 15, 2010
“Kuhle Wampe: Brecht on a Motorcycle,” The L Magazine, April 13, 2010
“The Bride Wore Black,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, April 8, 2010
“Meet the First-Ever Best Actress Oscar-Winner This Week and Next,” The L Magazine, April 1, 2010
“Fear and Desire,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, March 2, 2010
“Stanley Kubrick’s Early Documentaries,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, March 1, 2010
“Luc Besson, Larger Than Life, ”The L Magazine, February 22, 2010
“Netflix Hidden Gems: Issue #6: Trigger Man,” Hammer to Nail, February 18, 2010
“No Blade of Grass,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, February 8, 2010
“Taken,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, February 1, 2010
“Netflix Hidden Gems: Issue #5: Phantasm, ”Hammer to Nail, January 13, 2010
“The Top 25 Films of the Decade (2000-2009): The Great World of Sound,” Hammer to Nail, December 23, 2009
“Invisible Man” (on James Whale), The L Magazine, December 2, 2009
“Permanent Vacation” (on M. Hulot’s Holiday), The L Magazine, November 18, 2009
“Sam Fuller’s Art of Gracelessness” (not my headline), The L Magazine, November 11, 2009
“So a drifter, a prostitute, a priest, a miner, and his deaf-mute daughter walk into a South American jungle…” (review of Death in the Garden), The L Magazine, November 5, 2009
“Netflix Hidden Gems: Issue#4: Habit,” Hammer to Nail, November 4, 2009
“Black Rain, Black Rain,“ The L Magazine, October 22, 2009
“Daniel and Abraham: Rage,” Hammer to Nail, October 19, 2009
“What Was Marlene Dietrich Hiding?” (review of Marlene), The L Magazine, October 14, 2009
“Mother,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, October 9, 2009
“Crossroads of Youth,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, October 7, 2009
“The Fall of the House of Usher,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, October 7, 2009
“How Could a Westerner Make a Movie That Understands the Rwandan Genocide?” (review of Munyurangabo), The L Magazine, October 7, 2009
“Wild Grass,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, October 3, 2009
“Police, Adjective,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, October 1, 2009
“Daughter of Darkness, Spreading Sexual Terror Across the English Countryside, As You Do” (reviews of Daughter of Darkness and Burke and Hare), The L Magazine, September 30, 2009
“Tonight, Silent Films by Pioneering Lady Filmmaker Alice Guy,” The L Magazine, September 29, 2009
“Sweetgrass,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, September 28, 2009
“A Home-Movie History of the Twentieth Century” (review of Private Century), The L Magazine, September 24, 2009
“Paradise: Privileged Moments,” Hammer to Nail, September 24, 2009
“The Saragossa Manuscript Wants Your Skulls; The Saragossa Manuscript Needs Your Skulls,” The L Magazine, September 16, 2009
“New DVD Releases 9/15/09: Winter Soldier,” Hammer to Nail, September 15, 2009
“Presenting the Best Silent Filmmaker Film History Has Never Heard Of” (review of Gaumont Treasures: 1897-1913), The L Magazine, September 9, 2009
“Netflix Hidden Gems: Issue #2: Blast of Silence,” Hammer to Nail, September 3, 2009
“Jeanne Dielman, Fuck Yeah,” The L Magazine, September 1, 2009
“The Wedding March,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, August 31, 2009
“Foolish Wives,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, August 27, 2009
“Oh, the Depravity! The Cinema of Erich von Stroheim,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, August 23, 2009
“Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-Itchyfooted Mutha: The Art and Joy of Storytelling,” Hammer to Nail, August 21, 2009
“What’s Yr Take On Cassavetes?” (reviews of John Cassavetes: Film Films and Icons of Screwball Comedy Vols. 1 and 2), The L Magazine, August 18, 2009
“The Ballad of Little Jo,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, August 17, 2009
“Hey, Depresso, Wanna Dance?” (reviews of The GoodTimesKid and Mantrap), The L Magazine, August 11, 2009
“The Outfit Is a Vastly Underappreciated 70s Crime Thriller,” The L Magazine, August 6, 2009
“Netflix Hidden Gems: Issue #1: Little Fugitive,” Hammer to Nail, August 5, 2009
“The Housemaid, a Hothouse Psycho-sexual Melodrama,” The L Magazine, August 4, 2009
“Westward the Women,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, August 3, 2009
“Arizona,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, July 30, 2009
“The Gun Woman,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, July 28, 2009
“So James Bond, La Dolce Vita and The Most Dangerous Game Walk into a Dystopia…” (review of The 10th Victim), The L Magazine, July 28, 2009
“49-17,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, July 27, 2009
“Get Your Reps: Bigger Than Life,“ The L Magazine, July 24, 2009
“John Gilbert Used to Be the Biggest Movie Star in the World,” The L Magazine, July 24, 2009
“Rambo III,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, July 14, 2009
“Priced to Own: More Barrymore,” The L Magazine, July 7, 2009
“Rambo: First Blood Part II,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, July 6, 2009
“Priced to Own: It’s Love I’m After,“ The L Magazine, June 30, 2009
“Dead End” (review of 10 Rillington Place), The L Magazine, June 24, 2009
“Priced to Own: Diary of a Suicide at Marienbad” (review of Diary of a Suicide and Last Year at Marienbad), The L Magazine, June 23, 2009
“First Blood,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, June 23, 2009
“No One Is Innocent” (review of Brighton Rock), The L Magazine, June 17, 2009
“Priced to Own: The Important Thing Is to Love,“ The L Magazine, June 16, 2009
“Priced to Own: Rediscovering Julien Duvivier,” The L Magazine, June 9, 2009
“Priced to Own: Ninja Siege, Ninja Siege” (review of Shinobi no Mono 4: Siege), The L Magazine, June 2, 2009
“Everybody Loves a Good Rotting Corpse Joke,” The L Magazine, May 27, 2009
“Priced to Own: Angry White Men” (review of Falling Down), The L Magazine, May 26, 2009
“DVD Releases 2009/5/19: Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind,” Hammer to Nail, May 19, 2009
“Priced to Own: We’ve Got to Kill Hitler” (review of Man Hunt), The L Magazine, May 19, 2009
“DVD Releases 2009/5/12: Wise Blood”Hammer to Nail, May 12, 2009
“Priced to Own: Time’s Up for the Video Store?,” The L Magazine, May 12, 2009
“The Outside Man” (on Tod Browning), The L Magazine, May 11, 2009
“The grammar of the film is a political act,” The L Magazine, May 5, 2009
“Priced to Own: Grin Without a Cat,” The L Magazine, May 5, 2009
“Tale of Cinema: FILM IST. a girl & a gun,” The L Magazine, May 1, 2009
“The Human Voice: Dazzle,“ The L Magazine, April 30, 2009
“Priced to Own: Alain Resnais Is Not Dead, or Even Resting,” The L Magazine, April 28, 2009
“The Films of Shirley Clarke: Rebel With a Cause,” Hammer to Nail, April 22, 2009
“Like a Prayer” (review of Leon Morin, Priest), The L Magazine, April 15, 2009
“Priced to Own: Under Full Sail,“ The L Magazine, April 14, 2009
“Billy the Kid: Rebel, Poet, Loner, Lover,” Hammer to Nail, March 20, 2009
“Travels with Hiroshi Shimizu,” The L Magazine, March 17, 2009
“Iron Mask,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, February 27, 2009
“Must Read After My Death: This American Life,” Hammer to Nail, February 19, 2009
“Lonesome,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, February 17, 2009
“Street Angel,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, February 13, 2009
“The Silence After Sound: Hollywood’s Last Silent Movies,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, February 13, 2009
“Lithuania and the Collapse of the U.S.S.R.,“ The L Magazine, February 6, 2009
“The Honeymoon Killers: Noir Verite,” Hammer to Nail, January 28, 2009
“Imitations of Life,” The L Magazine, January 21, 2009
“Rossellini’s History Films: The Change and Growth of an Independent Master,” Hammer to Nail, January 13, 2009
“Donald Westlake: Made in U.S.A.,“ The L Magazine, January 9, 2009
“Bigger Than Life,“ The L Magazine, January 2, 2009
“Murnau, Borzage and Fox,” The L Magazine, December 26, 2008
“Hoppity Goes to Town,“ The L Magazine, December 23, 2008
“Just Tony,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, December 15, 2008
“Now-or-Never Movies of the Month: Quinto and Jean-Gabriel Albicocco,” The L Magazine, December 2, 2008
“Mockery,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, November 26, 2008
“Your Weekend (And Next Couple Weeks): Carole Lombard,” The L Magazine, November 21, 2008
“Election Day 2008: The Great McGinty,” Hammer to Nail, November 3, 2008
“Night and Day,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, October 27, 2008
“Troubled Water: Moral Dilemmas Played On a Church Organ,” Hammer to Nail, October 21, 2008
“The Curse of Bigfoot,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, October 14, 2008
“The Devil Inside: Filming Jim Thompson’s first-person pulp psychosis” (co-written with Mark Asch), Moving Image Source, August 11, 2008
“I’m Gonna Explode,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, October 8, 2008
“The Last Command,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, October 1, 2008
“The Dead Don’t Die,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, October 1, 2008
“Haxan,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, September 23, 2008
“Taking Father Home: Low Budget, High Art,” Hammer to Nail, September 19, 2008
“Films from Flaherty,” The L Magazine, September 12, 2008
“Lean with It,” The L Magazine, September 11, 2008
“We Can’t Go Home Again,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, September 8, 2008
“The Janitor,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, September 7, 2008
“High Green Wall,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, August 27, 2008
“La France,” Reverse Shot, August 25, 2008
“Knock on Any Door,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, August 19, 2008
“A Woman’s Secret,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, August 18, 2008
“Elegy,” The L Magazine, July 30, 2008
“Max Linder and the Death of Bourgeois Respectability,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, July 28, 2008
“Back to Normandy,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, July 25, 2008
“Shall We Satantango?,” The L Magazine, July 25, 2008
“I, Pierre Rivière, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother…,“ The L Magazine, July 24, 2008
“The Films of Mary Ellen Bute,” The L Magazine, July 18, 2008
“La France,” The L Magazine, July 2, 2008
“Manoeuvre,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, June 12, 2008
“Monsieur Verdoux,” The L Magazine, June 11, 2008
“Basic Training,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, June 6, 2008
“The Films of Morris Engel,” The L Magazine, May 14, 2008
“Roman de gare,” The L Magazine, April 23, 2008
“Captain Fracasse,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, April 16, 2008
“Silent Ozu,” The L Magazine, April 16, 2008
“Boarding Gate,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, March 26, 2008
“Street Kings,” The L Magazine, March 26, 2008
“New Directors, New Films,” The L Magazine, March 19, 2008
“Water Lilies,” The L Magazine, March 19, 2008
“Le Grand Franju,” The L Magazine, March 12, 2008
“Inventing the Underground,” The L Magazine, February 27, 2008
“Baby Face Harrington,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, February 25, 2008
“Don’t Look Back,” The L Magazine, January 30, 2008
“The Signal,” The L Magazine, January 30, 2008
“The Silence Before Bach,” The L Magazine, January 30, 2008
“The Silence Before Bach,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, January 24, 2008
“Midwinter Night’s Dream,” Not Coming to a Theater Near You, January 17, 2008
“Looking for Otto Preminger,” The L Magazine, January 2, 2008
“Fantasy Projections” (Audience of One; Shotgun Stories; The Killer Within), The L Magazine, November 7, 2007
“War/Dance,” The L Magazine, November 7, 2007
“Terror’s Advocate,” The L Magazine, October 10, 2007
“Finishing the Game,” The L Magazine, October 3, 2007
“The Last Winter, ”The L Magazine, September 12, 2007
“UnAmerican Activities: The Films of Abraham Polonsky,” The L Magazine, September 12, 2007
“In The Shadow of the Moon,” The L Magazine, September 5, 2007
“DVD Culture: Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol. 4,″ The Brooklyn Rail, September 4, 2007
“The Early Films of Samuel Fuller,” The L Magazine, August 15, 2007
“Manda Bala,” The L Magazine, August 15, 2007
“DVD Review: Turning Gate,“ The L Magazine, August 1, 2007
“Summer 04,” The L Magazine, August 1, 2007
“The Camden 28,” The L Magazine, July 12, 2007
“Drama/Mex,” The L Magazine, July 12, 2007
“I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, ”The L Magazine, July 12, 2007
“Introducing the Dwights, ”The L Magazine, July 4, 2007
“Live Free or Die Hard,” The L Magazine, June 20, 2007
“Black Sheep,” The L Magazine, June 6, 2007
“Fido,” The L Magazine, June 6, 2007
“Crazy Love,” The L Magazine, May 23, 2007
“Four Lane Highway,” The L Magazine, May 23, 2007
“In The Land of Women,” The L Magazine, April 11, 2007
“Reign Over Me,” The L Magazine, March 28, 2007
“The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair,” The L Magazine, March 14, 2007
“The New York Guitar Festival Comes to Flushing” (PDF coming soon), Guitar Review, Issue 132, Summer 2006
“Tale of Cinema,” Being There, Issue 15, November/December 2005
“On DVD: Aaron Shearer: A Life with the Guitar” (PDF coming soon), Guitar Review, Issue 129, Summer 2004
“The Guitar on Disc: Julian Bream: My Life in Music” (PDF coming soon), Guitar Review, Issue 128, Winter 2003/2004
DVD/Blu-ray Liner Notes
Blood Bath (Arrow): “Sid Haig: The Guy You’d Know If You Saw His Face”
The Car (Arrow): “From Car Crash to Cult Classic”
Coffy (Arrow) "Coffy"
Dead End Drive-In (Arrow): “Post-Punk Apocalypse”
The Swinging Cheerleaders (Arrow): “Pom Poms and Politics”
Vamp (Arrow)
Willie Dynamite (Arrow): “Pimps and Politics: The Radical Satire of Willie Dynamite”
Fiction
"Death Drives By Night," Beat to a Pulp, May 3, 2021
"Red Deuces," in Bourbon & A Good Cigar (2018), edited by Scott Harris
"Mail Order Widow," in Time to Myself (2018), edited by Scott Harris
"Pursuit," Crime Factory (volume 2, issue 3.5, June 2010)
Interviews
"Wallace Stroby on Life, Death, and Noir on the Jersey Shore," CrimeReads, April 22, 2021
“Women in Crime: An Interview with Sarah Weinman,” The Paris Review, October 19, 2015
“A Second Act for the Critic who Championed Dylan and Springsteen” (interview with Kevin Avery, author of Everything Is an Afterthought: The Life and Writings of Paul Nelson), Our Town Downtown, November 2, 2011
“Elemental Ghosts and Human Mysteries: An Interview with Walter Ungerer,” Hammer to Nail, June 9, 2011
“Interview with Jason Starr on The Pack,“ Spinetingler Magazine, June 7, 2011
“Talking to Cinema Zinester Mike White About Impossibly Funky Film Criticism,” The L Magazine, June 6, 2011
“A Conversation with Thys Ockersen,” UnionDocs, December 7, 2010
“A Conversation with Robbins Barstow, ” UnionDocs, November 15, 2010
“Contraband Cinema: What Makes a Political Film?,” (Interview with Kazembe Balgun), The L Magazine, June 30, 2010
“Get To Know the Seventh Orphan Film Symposium,” The L Magazine, April 27, 2010
“In Conversation: Megan Abbott with Cullen Gallagher,” The Brooklyn Rail, October 5, 2009
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