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Megan Abbott

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NYT-bestselling author of BEWARE THE WOMAN, THE TURNOUT, etc. EL DORADO DRIVE coming June 2025. Co-creator/showrunner: DARE ME on @netflix.
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Body Heat: The Trap You Set for Yourself

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By Megan Abbott
| criterion.com
Essays— May 19, 2026 “My history’s burning up out here,” Ned Racine (William Hurt) tells his lover in the opening minutes of Lawrence Kasdan’s directorial debut, Body Heat (1981). Ned, a small-time attorney and local roué in his South Florida beach town, recognizes the building ablaze in the distance as the Seawater Inn, where his family used to eat dinner twenty-five years ago. “Now somebody’s torched it to clear the lot,” he says with a bitter laugh.
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Needle Drops | Enya’s “Marble Halls”

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By Megan Abbott
| Southwest Review
Needle Drops is a column that asks writers about—you guessed it—their all-time favorite needle drop in a film. In this edition, Megan Abbott offers a view of Enya’s version of “Marble Halls,” featured in Martin Scorcese’s Age of Innocence. Martin Scorsese is one of the greatest needle droppers in cinematic history.
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A Year’s Worth of Essential Reading

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By Leo Goldsmith, Will Noah, Megan Abbott
| criterion.com
As we come to the end of 2025, we’re looking back at our past year in publishing and the articles we’ve shared with you—including essays on outstanding supporting performances, the history of the Vietnam War on-screen, the legacy of Nigerien-cinema pioneer Moustapha Alassane, and underappreciated films by Robert Altman, as well as interviews with a few of our Criterion Channel guest curators.
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