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William Boyle

William Boyle
William Boyle is the author of eight books set in and around the southern Brooklyn neighborhood of Gravesend, where he was born and raised. His most recent novel is Saint of the Narrows Street, available from Soho Crime. His books have been nominated for the Hammett Prize, the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award in the UK, and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in France, and they have been included on best-of lists in Washington Post, CrimeReads, and more.
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William Boyle on Jim Thompson’s 'The Getaway'

"It...feels like desperation itself. Bleeds it from around the edges. There’s something about the prose that is panicked, unrelenting. 

May 30, 2025  By William Boyle
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Writing a Modern Novel Steeped in Kitchen-Sink Realism

William Boyle reflects on the condensed power of "working-class tales set in cramped kitchens and living rooms and grimy bars"

February 4, 2025  By William Boyle
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Anything You Don’t See: Some Ghosts of Southern Brooklyn

William Boyle on Brooklyn in the final days before 9-11

November 2, 2021  By William Boyle
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Discover the Weird, Mythical, Mystical World of Fire Bones

William Boyle on a new transmedia work steeped in noir and Deep South carnivalesque

March 15, 2021  By William Boyle
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Discovery and Decay: Lost in the ’90s 

The formative obsessions that led to a new Brooklyn Noir.

March 5, 2020  By William Boyle
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Screwball Noir: A Hypothetical Film Festival

The Many Road Trips, Romances, and Violent Visions That Make Up a Highly Specialized Genre

March 5, 2019  By William Boyle
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Writing New York City Noir To The Sound of Lou Reed

Five Albums That Evoke The Gritty Realism of Crime Fiction

September 20, 2018  By William Boyle
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Only the Dead Know Brooklyn

Crime, Books, and Growing Up in the Old Brooklyn

May 1, 2018  By William Boyle
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