William Boyle is from Brooklyn, New York, and lives in Oxford, Mississippi. He is the author of Gravesend (Broken River Books). His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Mississippi Noir (Akashic), The Rumpus, Hobart, Lazy Fascist Review, and other magazines and journals.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Patron Saint of the Underdog
For Vlautin and his characters, part of the awfulness of freedom is that there are things humans can never be free from....
“Get Down to Zero”
Rarely, if ever, have we seen young American womanhood painted in such a raw and honest and heartbreaking way....
“All Will Be Explained”: Sara Gran’s “Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway”
Gran’s building something here, something bigger and better than a mere series....
Celebrity and Consequence: Scott Phillips’s “Rake”
If Scott Phillips's "Rake" slipped by you somehow this past summer, correct that now....
“Inside the Gray Bubble of Those Days”: Shawn Vestal's "Godforsaken Idaho"
Godforsaken Idaho is weirdly and wildly funny, a blistering set from a writer with a far-reaching range — like Washington Phillips by way of Denis Johnson....
“Tangled in Death”: Richard Lange’s “Angel Baby”
GIVE ME A BOOK that features epigraphs from The Book of Job and Smog’s “River Guard.” Give me a book ...
The Ruthless Furnace of the World: Owen King’s "Double Feature"
I DON'T KNOW WHAT I was expecting from Owen King’s debut novel, Double Feature, but I wasn’t ...
What True Flight Will Feel Like: On Karen Russell’s "Vampires in the Lemon Grove"
HERE'S THE LAMEST review equation in the world: Musician X + Filmmaker Y = Writer Z. So, forgive me this transgression (I just ...
