Freddie deBoer

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  • Burning Chrome Recommends

    He'd already coined "cyberspace" in a 1982 short story, "Burning Chrome," which was later included in his excellent collection of the same name. (I have recommended people read "New Rose Hotel" from that collection more times than any other short story, I'd wager.)

    freddiedeboer.substack.com 2026-07-27

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  • Neuromancer Loved

    Neuromancer is a book I love without reservation and have loved for a long time, and not only has it never been successfully adapted

    freddiedeboer.substack.com 2026-07-27

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  • Dangerous Blues Liked

    Policoff has written three novels, including 2022's Dangerous Blues, a book I really enjoyed and reviewed positively here.

    freddiedeboer.substack.com 2026-03-27

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  • A Ribbon For Your Hair Liked

    There's too much yearning in the book, too much dark humor, and too much of a characteristic attempt to keep finding some thread to follow through all the sadness. This book is mournful but not bleak.

    freddiedeboer.substack.com 2026-03-27

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  • No Country for Old Men Disliked

    The Coens are typically considered to be at their best when they're cruel diagnosticians of American life - see their portentous, overstuffed, painfully self-impressed No Country for Old Men

    freddiedeboer.substack.com 2026-01-29

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  • Ran Loved

    Gun to my head, I might very well choose Akira Kurosawa's Ran for the best film of the 20th.

    freddiedeboer.substack.com 2026-01-29

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  • Amour Loved

    If I was put on the spot to name the greatest movie of the 21st century, I would probably say Michael Hanneke's Amour, an achingly moving, relentlessly unpleasant portrait of an elderly couple sinking into illness and senescence, forced into making the grimmest decisions possible.

    freddiedeboer.substack.com 2026-01-29

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  • Raising Arizona Loved

    the Coen Brothers' Raising Arizona, which is, I will argue without apology, the greatest film they ever made.

    freddiedeboer.substack.com 2026-01-29

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  • Inherent Vice Loved

    Which brings me to the film adaptation of Inherent Vice, that widely-disliked, subtly-championed shaggy stoner LA noir that confused critics and rankled fans and also happens to be the best movie Paul Thomas Anderson has ever made.

    freddiedeboer.substack.com 2026-01-29

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  • We Can’t Help Hurting People by Abandoning Basic Epidemiological Rigor 4 Sept
  • Neuromancer Book Club, Chapters 7-9: The City of Dub 2 Sept
  • Sorry to Bother You 31 Aug
  • I Think LLMs Will Prove to Be Consequential Enterprise Software 29 Aug
  • Neuromancer Book Club, Chapters 4–6 26 Aug
  • The Edu-Optimists, Part II: CREDO, the Pro-Charter Research Shop That Won’t Take No Effect for an Answer 25 Aug

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  • Neuromancer Book Club, Chapters 1, 2, 3 - Welcome to Chiba City 18 Aug
  • Perhaps "Woke 1.0" is an Admission of Past Mistakes and a Commitment to Doing Better 17 Aug
  • My Dog Died During Lockdown 13 Aug
  • Neuromancer Book Club: Before We Jack In 11 Aug
  • Disability is the Current Meta 10 Aug
  • "I'm Not the Kind of Person Who Criticizes That Sort of Thing" 5 Aug
  • How to Produce a Pangram 4 False Positive 3 Aug
  • All In Your Head Excerpt: Psychiatry and The Isolated Demand for Rigor 31 Jul
  • The Project of Software is Complete 29 Jul
  • A Ribbon For Your Hair 27 Mar Liked
  • Dangerous Blues 27 Mar Liked
  • Inherent Vice 29 Jan Loved
  • Raising Arizona 29 Jan Loved
  • Amour 29 Jan Loved
  • Ran 29 Jan Loved
  • No Country for Old Men 29 Jan Disliked