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Cheating Hearts: On James M. Cain and Infidelity crimereads.com/cheating-heart… via @CrimeReads #filmnoir @EddieMuller
Until Hunter Biden, I didn't realize that people were still smoking crack. I thought it had gone out of style like quaaludes. --1984: Enter the Crack Era crimereads.com/harlem-crack-e… via @CrimeReads
One of the best science fiction novels you've never read. --Dying Cities: On the Lone Book of 'Lost' Novelist Elaine Perry crimereads.com/elaine-perry/ via @CrimeReads
Clarence Williams III was dope in The Mod Squad, but I loved him as Blood in The Cool World --Rumble in the Urban Jungle: On the Street Gangs of Old NYC crimereads.com/street-gangs-n… via @CrimeReads #TheModSquad #Harlem #Nyc
Freak On: Black Strip Clubs in the 1990s crimereads.com/freak-on-black… via @CrimeReads
how do you guys find anthologies to submit to? 👀
Orson Welles in The Third Man
Who gave the best performance in a film where they weren’t the lead character?
The secret legacy of both Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin is how many of color graffiti kids in 1970s NYC used their music as their bombing soundtrack.
As a Bogdanovich fan since I was a kid watching "Paper Moon" in a NYC theater, I look forward to your book. I once saw him in the early 2000s in the audience of a "Cabaret" revival being staged at the former Studio 54, but I didn't bug him.
Peter Bogdanovich got fired from directing ANOTHER YOU with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, but before he was fired, he got to direct a scene...starring Donald Trump. Um. Book coming!
After Isaac Hayes signed-off on "Walk On By" being in Dead Presidents, the Hughes Brothers contacted him about directing a music video for “Walk On By” featuring him, Larenz Tate, Chris Tucker & N’Bushe Wright. Says Allen Hughes, "There was no ego at all." crimereads.com/isaac-hayes-me…
The painter and printmaker Mavis Pusey made pathbreaking art. Then she vanished. Ten years of sleuthing — and a survey at the ICA in Philadelphia — reveal her greatness. nyti.ms/4m0TJS1
Michael Gonzales (@gonzomike) at CrimeReads: The Silver Golden Goose Score: On Richard Stark and a Harlem Heist crimereads.com/richard-stark-…
How Billy Joel changed my young life. --A New York State of Mind: The Unexpected Bonding Powers of Billy Joel's Melancholy Noir crimereads.com/a-new-york-sta… via @CrimeReads
They're just trying to kill us.
Trump has promised more tariffs on Mexico because he said its officials haven't done enough to stop drug cartels. He did acknowledge they have helped on immigration. We examine the issues behind the 30 percent tariffs set to begin on Aug. 1. nytimes.com/2025/07/16/wor…
For @XXL's 2025 Summer Issue (aka Freshman Issue), I highlighted 10 of hip-hop's historic rap feuds. *Reader's Note*: This is not an exhaustive rap feud list. Due to space and word count constraints, I could only feature 10 rap battles. #hiphop #rap #music #journalism #List
At this point does anyone even remember what happened on Stranger Things?