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USA Noir
ByPublisher Description
Launched with the summer 2004 award-winning bestseller
, the groundbreaking Akashic Noir series now includes over sixty volumes and counting. The stories in
"represent the best of the U.S.-based anthologies, and the list of contributors include virtually anyone who's made the best-seller list with a work of crime fiction in the last decade . . . a must-have anthology" (
, starred review).
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.
"Perhaps the single most impressive feature of the collection is its range of voices, from Joyce Carol Oates' faux innocent young family to Megan Abbott's impressionable high school kids to the chorus of peremptory voices S.J. Rozan plants in a haunted thief's head. Eat your heart out, Walt Whitman: These are the folks who hear America singing, and moaning and screaming."—
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Tina
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“This was a lot of stories. Looking through hours of the audiobook - 22 hours, or 535 pages. Some stories were excellent, some of them I didn't really understand with all the plot-twists, some had a great potential and then the author ruined it for me in the end, etc.
If I consider all the stories, and mentally count the average grade, it would be three stars.
I found out there's a book called https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25330375.Zagreb_Noir and I'm really interested to read it because I want to see how the foreigners see my country.”
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Alison Sumprer
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“Anthologies are always a toss up. This was a best of so I had higher hopes for it and was not let down. I enjoyed the majority of the short stories and felt there were only a couple misses. if you like noir, I would definitely recommend you read this.”
About Dennis Lehane
Johnny Temple is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Akashic Books, an award-winning Brooklyn-based independent company dedicated to publishing urban literary fiction and political nonfiction. He won the 2013 Ellery Queen Award, the American Association of Publishers' 2005 Miriam Bass Award for Creativity in Independent Publishing; and the 2010 Jay and Dean Kogan Award for Excellence in Noir Literature. Temple teaches courses on the publishing business at Wilkes University and Wesleyan University; and is the Chair of the Brooklyn Literary Council, which works with Brooklyn's borough president to plan the annual Brooklyn Book Festival. He also plays bass guitar in the band Girls Against Boys, which has toured extensively across the globe and released numerous albums on independent and major record companies. He has contributed articles and political essays to various publications, including The Nation, Publishers Weekly, AlterNet, Poets & Writers, and BookForum.
Other books by Dennis Lehane
Susan Straight
Susan Straight has published eight novels. Her most recent,
, is the final book in the Rio Seco trilogy.
was named one of the best books of 2010 by the
,
, and
, and
was a finalist for the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her novel
was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award. “The Golden Gopher” won the 2008 Edgar Award for Best Mystery Story. Her stories and essays have appeared in the
,
,
,
,
, the
,
,
, and elsewhere. Straight has been awarded the Lannan Prize for Fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Gold Medal for Fiction from the Commonwealth Club of California. She is distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside. She was born in Riverside, California, where she lives with her family, whose history is featured on susanstraight.com.
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