New Jersey Noir (36 page)
Authors: Joyce Carol Oates
S.A. S
OLOMON
has published short fiction and poems in the
Dos Passos Review, Exquisite Corpse,
the
New York Quarterly, Lungfull!,
and other journals. Her lyrics for Leonid Andreyev’s
The One that Gets Slapped,
a circus-cabaret-drama, were featured in a 2008 production at Colby College. Her brush with New Jersey
noir
comes from her years living and working in Jersey City and Newark. She now lives in New York City, and is a freelance writer and editor.
G
ERALD
S
TERN
, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1925, is the author of fifteen books of poetry including
This Time: New and Selected Poems,
which won the 1998 National Book Award, and a book of personal essays titled
What I Can’t Bear Losing
. He has won the Ruth Lilly Prize and the Wallace Stevens Award, and his
Early Collected: Poems from 1965-1992
was published by W.W. Norton in the spring of 2010.
E
DMUND
W
HITE
has written some twenty-five books—memoirs, biographies, novels, travel books, short stories, and essays. Among his best-known novels are
A Boy’s Own Story
and
The Married Man.
He lives in New York but teaches in Princeton, New Jersey.
C.K. W
ILLIAMS’S
books have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, among others. His most recent book of poems,
Wait
, was published in 2010, as was a prose study,
On Whitman
, and a children’s book,
A Not Scary Story About Big Scary Things.
He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and teaches in the creative writing program at Princeton University.
Also available from the Akashic Noir Series
BOSTON NOIR
edited by Dennis Lehane
240 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
Brand-new stories by:
Dennis Lehane, Stewart O’Nan, Patricia Powell, John Dufresne, Lynne Heitman, Don Lee, Russ Aborn, J. Itabari Njeri, Jim Fusilli, Brendan DuBois, and Dana Cameron.
“In the best of the eleven stories in this outstanding entry in Akashic’s noir series, characters, plot, and setting feed off each other like flames and an arsonist’s accelerant … [T]his anthology shows that noir can thrive where Raymond Chandler has never set foot.”
—Publishers Weekly
(starred review)
BROOKLYN NOIR
edited by Tim McLoughlin
350 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
*Winner of Shamus Award, Anthony Award, Robert L. Fish Memorial Award; finalist for Edgar Award, Pushcart Prize.
Brand-new stories by:
Pete Hamill, Arthur Nersesian, Ellen Miller, Nelson George, Nicole Blackman, Sidney Offit, Ken Bruen, and others.
“Brooklyn Noir
is such a stunningly perfect combination that you can’t believe you haven’t read an anthology like this before. But trust me—you haven’t … The writing is flat-out superb, filled with lines that will sing in your head for a long time to come.”
—Laura Lippman, winner of the Edgar, Agatha, and Shamus awards
MANHATTAN NOIR
edited by Lawrence Block
264 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
Brand-new stories by:
Jeffery Deaver, Lawrence Block, Charles Ardai, Carol Lea Benjamin, Thomas H. Cook, Jim Fusilli, John Lutz, Justin Scott, Maan Meyers, Martin Meyers, S.J. Rozan, Xu Xi, and others.
“A pleasing variety of Manhattan neighborhoods come to life in Block’s solid anthology, the latest entry in Akashic’s city-themed noir series … [T]he writing is of a high order and a nice mix of styles.”
—Publishers Weekly
D.C. NOIR
edited by George Pelecanos
312 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
Brand-new stories by:
George Pelecanos, Laura Lippman, James Grady, Kenji Jasper, Jim Beane, Ruben Castaneda, Robert Wisdom, Jim Patton, Norman Kelley, Jennifer Howard, Jim Fusilli, and others.
“[T]he tome offers a startling glimpse into the cityscape’s darkest corners … fans of the genre will find solid writing, palpable tension, and surprise endings.”
—Washington Post
LOS ANGELES NOIR
edited by Denise Hamilton
360 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
*A
Los Angeles Times
best seller and winner of an Edgar Award.
Brand-new stories by:
Michael Connelly, Janet Fitch, Susan Straight, Héctor Tobar, Patt Morrison, Robert Ferrigno, Neal Pollack, Gary Phillips, Christopher Rice, Naomi Hirahara, Jim Pascoe, and others.
“Akashic is making an argument about the universality of noir; it’s sort of flattering, really, and
Los Angeles Noir,
arriving at last, is a kaleidoscopic collection filled with the ethos of noir pioneers Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain.”
—Los Angeles Times Book Review
BALTIMORE NOIR
edited by Laura Lippman
294 pages, trade paperback original, $14.95
Brand-new stories by:
David Simon, Laura Lippman, Tim Cockey, Rob Hiaasen, Robert Ward, Sujata Massey, Dan Fesperman, Marcia Talley, Ben Neihart, Jim Fusilli, Rafael Alvarez, and others.
“Baltimore is a diverse city, and the stories reflect everything from its old row houses and suburban mansions to its beloved Orioles and harbor areas. Mystery fans should relish this taste of its seamier side.”
—Publishers Weekly
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