William Boyle

Thank you so much! Truly appreciate the good words.

I talked to Larry Morrisey on the Mississippi Arts Hour about Larry Brown’s influence on my life & work, music in SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET, writing about southern Brooklyn from northern MS, & more. Tune in Sunday, 11/16 at 5:00 PM CST on MPB Radio or listen via the Mississippi Arts Hour podcast.

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Thanks for reading, and sorry for the slow reply!

Trespasses: ​Gillian Anderson steals every scene in this miraculous TV heartbreaker Lola Petticrew and Tom Cullen’s chemistry in this tale of secret passion during the Troubles will floor you. But it is Anderson as a sour, ragey alcoholic who truly mesmerises

Had no idea about this TV adaptation of one of my favorite novels of the decade, Louise Kennedy’s TRESPASSES. Can’t wait to watch it. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Thanks so much!

Great read, check it out.

The NYRB reissue of Jan Kerouac’s BABY DRIVER is out today. Been wanting to read this for a long time. Just grabbed my copy at Square Books.

The new one from my favorite in the game, hero and pal Willy Vlautin, showed up a few days ago. Made my day, month, year.

McNally Editions recently reissued Todd Grimson’s 1996 Gothic slacker vampire noir STAINLESS. Goddamn, it’s so great. Highly recommend picking it up. Blurbs from James Ellroy & Katherine Dunn (who said it’s like if Raymond Chandler or Flannery O’Connor wrote a vampire novel).

My best score ever off the library quarter sale rack. A first edition of one of my top ten favorite books, THE STORIES OF BREECE D’J PANCAKE! Still reeling from this find, which was buried—for some reason—in the woebegone nonfiction section.

Been exiled from BlueSky (M$) so about to blast out a bunch of catch-up posts while it’s working. First off: Publishers Weekly named SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET one of the Best Books of 2025! best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-book...

Old ‘Mets’ cap & No Exit Press UK paperback edition of ‘Saint of The Narrows Street’ by William Boyle.

Minding an elderly parent and staying over in my childhood room like somebody out of a @wmboyle4.bsky.social novel yesterday, so figured it was appropriate to finally pull his latest, ‘Saint of The Narrows Street’ off the shelf.

New Life of the Record episode on one of my favorite albums of the century so far, Sharon Van Etten’s TRAMP. Can’t wait to listen.

Had a lot of fun talking Stephen King with @filmintuition.bsky.social and @blacktopkid.bsky.social. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

One of my favorites!

Christ this is beautiful

In honor of ELECTRIC NEBRASKA entering the world, I decided to go long on "lost" albums and why they're so appealing and romantic to me, focusing on 25 "lost" albums in particular (in list form).

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Blackout Noir Among the most agonizingly intense films in the history of film noir are those that adopt the point of view of characters tormented by amnesia, memory holes, and drunken blackouts, leaving them to grasp in the dark in search of an often terrifying truth. These films combine tantalizing whodunit mysteries with creeping doubt, paranoia, and a guilt that shreds the soul. ALSO FEATURING: Framed (1947), Guilty Bystander (1950), The Blue Gardenia (1953), Blackout (1954)

BLACKOUT NOIR • Coming to criterion channel in November!

I’ll be at the Brattleboro Literary Festival in Brattleboro, Vermont this weekend. Really excited. My panel is on Saturday the 18th, 11:15 am-12:30 pm, 118 Elliot Street, downtown Brattleboro. Hope to see folks there!

Thank you, Jen! So much fun. Here’s that Mist tape I mentioned.

Such a great chat w/ authors William Boyle & S.A. Cosby on Stephen King, sleeping w/ popsicle crucifixes, stripped down storytelling, cocaine filmmaking, his favorite character the writer, & the time my ex sis-in-law watched THE MIST & cursed me out, lol. You'll hear it all soon on #WatchWithJen!

I Wake Up Streaming | October 2025 By William Boyle

We got your weekend covered w/ the sweetest streaming recs @wmboyle4.bsky.social could muster for the latest installment of I WAKE UP STREAMING 🍿

Turn on, tune in, & binge......

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10/12/91: Carl Franklin's astonishing One False Move
@ VIFF, w/Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Cynda Williams
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Excited to be in Little Rock today and tomorrow for Six Bridges Book Festival. I’m on a panel tomorrow at 11:30 with Lucas Schaefer, author of THE SLIP (one of my favorite books of the year), moderated by my pal Eli Cranor.

Oh man, crazy. I had no idea he had a son named William.

Out now! I have a new story in this anthology called “Arlene.” Think a mix of VERTIGO, PSYCHO, and REAR WINDOW in late ’80s southern Brooklyn. I hope you’ll pick it up! titanbooks.com/72625-birds-...

Nope. No relation. But I love his books, especially Only the Dead Know Brooklyn. Sorry for slow reply—BlueSky no longer works where I live so I haven’t had access until leaving the state.

Can't wait to start reading this book, which includes a short-story by @wmboyle4.bsky.social among other brilliant writers! 🪓🩸

Thanks so much for picking it up!