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Hey, folks, welcome to a special episode of The Projection Booth.

I'm your host, Mike White.

On this episode, I'm talking to Matthew Asprey Gear, the author of Mosby Confidential,

Arthur Penn's Night Moves and the Rise of Neo-Noir.

Of course, I'm a huge fan of night moves. We did an episode

on that a few years ago. I would recommend you check that out, check out the movie, check out

Mr. Geer's book, and enjoy this interview. So Matthew Asprey Gehart, tell me a little bit about

you. I'm very curious how you decided to become a writer. I've been writing since my early 20s.

I've written a lot of fiction, and I mean, I actually consider myself sort of first and

foremost a fiction writer.

I'm mostly short stories I've published.

I have an academic background in my area is film studies, so I've just published two

books about cinema. There's a book about

Awesome Wells and now a new book about the author of Pan film Nightmaves. So I guess I'm very

interested in crime fiction. I've written some crime fiction myself. So I'm interested in the

genre. It all kind of feeds into, like the fiction I write, I guess in some ways, feeds into

the nonfiction I write. I mean, thematically anyway. So I've read a ton of books about Wells,

and I'm curious what angle do you come at him at the end of the street in the shadow?

It's a study of his body of work, kind of far beyond what you would consider

this sort of established filmography because it looks at a lot of unpublished or unmade screenplays

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