Keith Roysdon

Knoxville

Freelance Writer at Freelance

Writer. IN to TN. 2021 Hugh Holton Award winner for unpublished novel Seven Angels. Fiction, true crime. @CrimeReads https://t.co/s5wnA30b3u

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Articles

Q&A: Author Michael Amos Cody's New Book Takes Us to the Streets of Nashville and Beyond | The Daily Yonder

1 week ago | dailyyonder.com | Keith Roysdon

Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A
A Brief History of 1970s Disaster Movies

1 month ago | crimereads.com | Keith Roysdon

I’m so old that I think of the art and science of modern-era movies according to whether they came before or after “Jaws” (1975) and “Star Wars” (1977).
S.A. Cosby is a Rising Star in the Rural Literary Scene

1 month ago | dailyyonder.com | Keith Roysdon

Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in The Good, the Bad, and the Elegy, a newsletter from the Daily Yonder focused on the best, and worst, in rural media, entertainment, and culture. Every other Thursday, it features reviews, retrospectives, recommendations, and more.
The Documentary That Investigates Jerry Lewis’ Never Released Nazi Camp Clown Movie

1 month ago | crimereads.com | Keith Roysdon

To this day, the idea of it is flabbergasting: Jerry Lewis directing and starring in a film about a former circus clown entertaining children in Nazi death camps – and even leading them into the gas chamber.
'American Primeval' Doesn't Flinch from the Frontier's Brutality

2 months ago | dailyyonder.com | Keith Roysdon

Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in The Good, the Bad, and the Elegy, a newsletter from the Daily Yonder focused on the best, and worst, in rural media, entertainment, and culture. Every other Thursday, it features reviews, retrospectives, recommendations, and more. You can join the mailing list at the bottom of this article to receive future editions in your inbox. I dare you to watch “American Primeval” on Netflix and not feel cold.
Journalism’s Secret Order of the Occult Hand

Jan 22, 2025 | crimereads.com | Keith Roysdon

Who doesn’t love a secret society? We’ve had the Illuminati, Skull and Bones, the Stonecutters from “The Simpsons” and the Merry Marvel Marching Society – OK, the latter admittedly not a truly secretive society. Article continues after advertisementWho doesn’t love a ridiculous journalism practice, one with fewer consequences than the political journalism of recent years?
Q&A: Revitalizing Rural Economies by Filming On-Location, with Tina Pehme and Kim Roberts

Dec 6, 2024 | dailyyonder.com | Keith Roysdon

Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you see here? You can join the mailing list at the bottom of this article and receive more conversations like this in your inbox each week. The television show “Murder in a Small Town” completed its first eight-episode season on November 27 on Fox.
Taking Stock of the Shows Aiming to Become the 'Next Yellowstone'

Nov 28, 2024 | dailyyonder.com | Keith Roysdon

Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in The Good, the Bad, and the Elegy, a newsletter from the Daily Yonder focused on the best, and worst, in rural media, entertainment, and culture. Every other Thursday, it features reviews, retrospectives, recommendations, and more. You can join the mailing list at the bottom of this article to receive future editions in your inbox. “Yellowstone” returned for the back half of its final season – final as far as we know – on November 10.
True Crime Can Be a Dread Inspiration, Authors Agree

Nov 26, 2024 | crimereads.com | Keith Roysdon

True crime turns us all into gawkers, slow rolling past a broken body on a sidewalk or peering at bloodstains on a bedroom carpet. Article continues after advertisementI say that as someone who feels ambivalent about true crime books, articles, podcasts and TV shows and as someone who’s co-authored four true crime books and was a panelist at a true crime session at the Bouchercon 2024 mystery writers convention in Nashville in August.
How ‘Outer Banks’ Became the New Generation’s Hardy Boys

Nov 22, 2024 | crimereads.com | Keith Roysdon

A sunken ship. A mysterious lighthouse. A hunt for treasure. A missing father. Teenagers with their own secret hideouts living in a world of haves and have nots. Article continues after advertisementA lot of books and TV series have influenced “Outer Banks,” from the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew to the 1960s Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators juvenile mysteries to recent teen mystery TV like “Veronica Mars.” The Netflix series even has more than a little “Dawson’s Creek” DNA in the mix.