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USA Noir: Best of the Akashic Noir Series - Softcover

Buch 29 von 123: Akashic Noir

Abbott, Megan; Temple, Johnny

 
9781617751844: USA Noir: Best of the Akashic Noir Series
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1617751847 ISBN 13: 9781617751844
Verlag: Akashic Books,U.S., 2013

Inhaltsangabe

"All the heavy hitters . . . came out for USA Noir . . . an important anthology of stories shrewdly culled by Johnny Temple." --New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice

"Readers will be hard put to find a better collection of short stories in any genre." --Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.

Featuring stories by: Dennis Lehane, Don Winslow, Michael Connelly, George Pelecanos, Susan Straight, Jonathan Safran Foer, Laura Lippman, Pete Hamill, Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Child, T. Jefferson Parker, Lawrence Block, Terrance Hayes, Jerome Charyn, Jeffery Deaver, Maggie Estep, Bayo Ojikutu, Tim McLoughlin, Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, Reed Farrel Coleman, Megan Abbott, Elyssa East, James W. Hall, J. Malcolm Garcia, Julie Smith, Joseph Bruchac, Pir Rothenberg, Luis Alberto Urrea, Domenic Stansberry, John O'Brien, S.J. Rozan, Asali Solomon, William Kent Krueger, Tim Broderick, Bharti Kirchner, Karen Karbo, and Lisa Sandlin.

From the introduction by Johnny Temple:

"From the start, the heart and soul of Akashic Books has been dark, provocative, well-crafted tales from the disenfranchised. I learned early on that writings from outside the mainstream almost necessarily coincide with a mood and spirit of noir, and are composed by authors whose life circumstances often place them in environs exposed to crime . . . This volume serves up a top-shelf selection of stories from the series set in the United States. USA Noir only scratches the surface, however, and every single volume has gems on offer."

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Megan Abbott is the Edgar Award-winning author of six novels, including Dare Me, The End of Everything, and Bury Me Deep. Her writing has appeared in Detroit Noir, Queens Noir, Phoenix Noir, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times Magazine. She is the author of The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity and Urban Space in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir and editor of A Hell of a Woman, a female crime fiction anthology. She has been nominated for various awards, including the Steel Dagger, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Pushcart Prize.

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USA NOIR

Best of the Akashic Noir Series

By Johnny Temple

Akashic Books

Copyright © 2013 Akashic Books
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-61775-184-4

Contents

Introduction by Johnny Temple..............................................11
PART I: TRUE GRIT..........................................................
Dennis Lehane Animal Rescue Dorchester Boston Noir.......................17
George Pelecanos The Confidential Informant Park View, NW DC Noir........36
Susan Straight The Golden Gopher Downtown Los Angeles Noir...............52
Pete Hamill The Book Signing Park Slope Brooklyn Noir....................73
Joyce Carol Oates Run Kiss Daddy Kittatinny Mountains New Jersey Noir...86
Terrance Hayes Still Air East Liberty Pittsburgh Noir....................100
Jerome Charyn White Trash Claremont/Concourse Bronx Noir.................112
PART II: AMERICAN VALUES...................................................
Maggie Estep Alice Fantastic Aqueduct Racetrack Queens Noir..............119
Bayo Ojikutu The Gospel of Moral Ends 77th & Jeffery Chicago Noir........131
Tim McLoughlin When All This Was Bay Ridge Sunset Park Brooklyn Noir.....145
Barbara DeMarco-Barett Crazy for You Costa Mesa Orange County Noir.......155
Reed Farel Coleman Mastermind Selden Long Island Noir....................170
Karen Karbo The Clown and Bard SE Twenty-Eighth Avenue Portland Noir.....180
PART III: ROAD RAGE........................................................
Michael Conelly Mulholland Dive Mulholland Drive Los Angeles Noir........195
Megan Abbott Our Eyes Couldn't Stop Opening Alter Road Detroit Noir......208
Lee Child Public Transportation Chandler Phoenix Noir....................220
Jonathan Safran Foer Too Near Real Princeton New Jersey Noir.............225
James W. Hall Ride Along Coconut Grove Miami Noir........................236
Elyssa East Second Chance Buzzards Bay Cape Cod Noir.....................248
PART IV: HOMELAND SECURITY.................................................
Don Winslow After Thirty Pacific Beach San Diego Noir....................265
J. Malcolm Garcia Missing Gene Troost Lake Kansas City Noir..............275
Julie Smith Loot Garden District New Orleans Noir........................290
Domenic Stansberry The Prison North Beach San Francisco Noir.............304
Joseph Bruchac Helper Adirondacks, New York Indian Country Noir..........315
Laura Lippman Easy As A-B-C Locust Point Baltimore Noir..................329
Pir Rothenberg The Rose Red Vial Museum District Richmond Noir...........337
PART V: UNDER THE INFLUENCE................................................
Luis Alberto Urrea Amapola Paradise Valley Phoenix Noir..................355
John O'Brien The Tik Scotch 80s Las Vegas Noir...........................371
S.J. Rozan Lighthouse St. George Staten Island Noir......................379
Asali Solomon Secret Pool West Philadelphia Philadelphia Noir............393
William Kent Krueger Bums West Side, St. Paul Twin Cities Noir...........405
PART VI: STREET JUSTICE....................................................
T. Jefferson Parker Vic Primeval Kearny Mesa San Diego Noir..............417
Tim Broderick Feeding Frenzy 40 Wall Street Wall Street Noir.............433
Bharti Kirchner Promised Tulips Wallingford Seattle Noir.................452
Lawrence Block If You Can't Stand the Heat Nottingham Terrace Manhattan 
Noir.......................................................................		469
Lisa Sandlin Phelan's First Case Beaumont Lone Star Noir.................477
Jeffery Deaver A Nice Place to Visit Hell's Kitchen Manhattan Noir.......493
About the Contributors.....................................................520
About the Akashic Noir Series..............................................527
Akashic Noir Series Awards, Prizes & Honors................................539


INTRODUCTION

Writers on the Run


In my early years as a book publisher, I got a call one Saturday from oneof our authors asking me to drop by his place for "a smoke." I politelydeclined as I had a full day planned. "But Johnny," the author persisted,"I have some really good smoke." My curiosity piqued, I swung by, but was a bitperplexed to be greeted with suspicion at the author's door by an unhingedwhore and her near-nude john. The author rumbled over and ushered me in,promptly sitting me down on a smelly couch and assuring the others I wasn't aproblem. Moments later, the john produced a crack pipe to resume the partyI had evidently interrupted. This wasn't quite the smoke I'd envisaged, so Igracefully excused myself after a few (sober) minutes. I scurried home ponderingthe author's notion that it was somehow appropriate to invite his publisherto a crack party.

It may not have been appropriate, but it sure was noir.

From the start, the heart and soul of Akashic Books has been dark, provocative,well-crafted tales from the disenfranchised. I learned early on thatwritings from outside the mainstream almost necessarily coincide with a moodand spirit of noir, and are composed by authors whose life circumstances oftenplace them in environs vulnerable to crime.

My own interest in noir fiction grew from my early exposure to urbancrime, which I absorbed from various perspectives. I was born and raised inWashington, DC, and have lived in Brooklyn since 1990. In the 1970s and'80s, when violent, drug-fueled crime in DC was rampant, my mother hungout with cops she'd befriended through her work as a nearly unbeatable publicdefender. She also grew close to some of her clients, most notably legendaryDC bank robber Lester "LT" Irby (a contributor to DC Noir), who has beenone of my closest friends since I was fifteen, though he was incarcerated fromthe early 1970s until just recently. Complicating my family's relationship withthe criminal justice system, my dad sued the police stridently in his work aslegal director of DC's American Civil Liberties Union.

Both of my parents worked overtime. By the time my sister Kathy wasnine and I was seven, we were latchkey kids prone to roam, explore, andoccasionally break laws. Though an arrest for shoplifting helped curb mydelinquent tendencies, the interest in crime remained. After college I workedwith adolescents and completed a master's degree in social work; my focuswas on teen delinquency.

Throughout the 1990s, my relationship...

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Verlag
Akashic Books,U.S.
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
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ISBN 13 
9781617751844
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