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Will Sloan @willsloanesq.bsky.social · Apr 9

🛸 I WROTE A BOOK about ED WOOD 🐙

ED WOOD: MADE IN HOLLYWOOD USA is a sympathetic critical study about his whole career.

“Beautifully written, intelligently funny, packed with surprising facts on every page." - Guy Maddin

PRE-ORDER from @orbooks.bsky.social: orbooks.com/catalog/ed-w...

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Thanks for coming out!

Will Sloan @willsloanesq.bsky.social · 23h

Very nice interview I did with the estimable @schlockvalue.bsky.social for Screen Slate on Ed Wood, in advance of my NYC launch.
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Panning for Gold: Will Sloan on Ed Wood

What is there left to say about Edward D. Wood, Jr. that hasn’t already been in the 45 years since he was crowned the “Worst Director of All Time” in Harry and Michael Medved’s 1980 book, The Golden T...

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Will Sloan @willsloanesq.bsky.social · 1d

Bearded man in Jerry Warren's chef-d'œuvre The Incredible Petrified World (1957)

Will Sloan @willsloanesq.bsky.social · 2d

Only a handful of tickets remaining to my screening/NYC book launch at Metrograph tomorrow
metrograph.com/film/?vista_...

Will Sloan presents Plan 9 from Outer Space - Now Playing In Theater at Metrograph

Extended introduction by Will Sloan and a book launch following the screening on Thursday, 10/9

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Will Sloan @willsloanesq.bsky.social · 2d

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Will Sloan @willsloanesq.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, and meanwhile I’m out here peddling my wares like I’m on the campaign trail.

Will Sloan @willsloanesq.bsky.social · 3d

And we got Abel Ferrara's book next week. Simply a bounty of riches.

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Will Sloan @willsloanesq.bsky.social · 3d

It's official book publication day for both Thomas Pynchon and Will Sloan. Who will top the bestseller list? Only time will tell.

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Will Sloan @willsloanesq.bsky.social · 3d

Where did they find this picture of me

Will Sloan @willsloanesq.bsky.social · 4d

By the way, friendly reminder that the New York launch of my book is this Thursday at Metrograph. I would be earnestly delighted if you could attend. Yes, YOU!
metrograph.com/film/?vista_...

Will Sloan presents Plan 9 from Outer Space - Now Playing In Theater at Metrograph

Extended introduction by Will Sloan and a book launch following the screening on Thursday, 10/9

metrograph.com

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Will Sloan @willsloanesq.bsky.social · 4d

I wrote about Ed Wood's finest literary works for the Metrograph Journal
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RidicuLists: The Top Five Literary Works by Ed Wood - Journal - Metrograph

Film history is a house with many rooms. In Ridiculists, Will Sloan explore some of its nooks and crannies. For the latest entry, a look at five of the cult independent filmmaker Ed Wood’s finest book...

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Will Sloan @willsloanesq.bsky.social · 5d

Looks like a good dog

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Contemplating the big questions.

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Will Sloan @willsloanesq.bsky.social · 6d

(*Criterion Guy voice*) "Oh hell yeah! Gentlemen of the Press (1929) has finally joined the Alpha Video Collection!"

Will Sloan @willsloanesq.bsky.social · 6d

When I see Bari Weiss all I see is Refaat Alareer’s murderer, so I really wish I didn’t have to hear about her this often. Repulsive person.

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Will Sloan @willsloanesq.bsky.social · 7d

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The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 7d

On the new Emulsion, @willsloanesq.bsky.social joins Nick Newman to discuss his excellent Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA, Wood's sui generis pleasures, where good and bad become indistinguishable, and (briefly) Woody Allen's What's with Baum?

Emulsion Ep. 16 – Will Sloan on Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA

Ed Wood died the better part of a half-century ago, and to this day his reputation as the world's worst filmmaker persists. Even in this era when seemingly everything can be reclaimed, few have made t...

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 8d

I interviewed internet personality @willsloanesq.bsky.social about his Ed Wood book over at my substack OLD NEW.

Against the Grain: An Interview with Will Sloan about Ed Wood

Will revalues the "worst director of all time"

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Will Sloan @willsloanesq.bsky.social · 9d

A limited quantity of my smash-hit book Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA is available from the @vinsyn.bsky.social store.
Why not add it to your monthly pile of Vinegar Syndrome product?
vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...

Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA - Paperback Book

By Will Sloan For generations, Ed Wood has been known as “the worst director of all time.” This sympathetic critical study repositions the director of Plan 9 from Outer Space as a maverick independent

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Will Sloan @willsloanesq.bsky.social · 9d

A cultural boycott of Israel? I mean heck, it sounds easy enough, but then you realize you’d miss out on all that Israeli culture.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 9d

Hakeem Jeffries’ “Stop the Republican Shutdown” livestream has just 156 viewers

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Will Sloan @willsloanesq.bsky.social · 10d

I have good news

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OR Books @orbooks.bsky.social · 11d

our author @willsloanesq.bsky.social presents Plan 9 from Outer Space at The Metrograph and signs copies of Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA — October 9th, 7PM

Watch the movie. Buy the book. Only then will Criswell’s prophecy make sense.

orbooks.com/catalog/ed-w...

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Will Sloan @willsloanesq.bsky.social · 11d

Big new movie by a famous acclaimed director about to drop (Fred Olen Ray)

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