San Francisco Noir (32 page)
But as a sex maniac, I couldn’t have asked for a better death: coming and going in the same moment, at the hands of the Snow Leopard.
Acknowledgments
The editor wishes to thank the following for their encouragement and support: Andy Bellows, Sona Avakian, Jennifer Joseph, Paul Yamazaki, Miriam Hodgman, The Matlock Brothers, Ashish & Janaki Ranpura, Daphne Gottlieb, Alan Goldstein, Tasha Keppler, Daniel Mandel, Jane Ganahl, Cheryll Eddy, Jeffrey Chan, Justin Chin, Mattilda, Johnny Strike, Nichelle Tramble, Michael Disend, Alan Black, Jill Tracy, Charles Gatewood, Marta Koehne, Stacey Lewis, Melissa Wagner, Jon Bradford, John Hurtado, Richard Poccia, Sherry Olsen, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Nancy J. Peters, Elaine Katzenberger, the gang at City Lights, and to Chris &Alex for logistical support; past, present, and future.
R
OBERT
M
AILER
A
NDERSON
was born in San Francisco in 1968. He finished his first novel,
Boonville
, in a hotel room in North Beach while jocking coffee at Caffe Trieste. He now lives with his wife and three children in Pacific Heights above a robot, and is a board member of SFJAZZ and the S.F. Opera Association.
W
ILL
C
HRISTOPHER
B
AER
is the author of the Phineas Poe trilogy:
Kiss Me, Judas
,
Penny Dreadful,
and
Hell’s Half Acre,
to be released in omnibus edition fall 2005 by MacAdam/Cage. He lives in California. For more, see
will-christopherbaer.com
.
K
ATE
B
RAVERMAN
first came to San Francisco as a runaway in 1965. She has written four novels (including
Lithium for Medea
and
Palm Latitudes)
, four books of poetry, and two collections of short stories, mostly set in a California that doesn’t appear on the postcards. She is the recipient of many awards and fellowships for both her fiction and nonfiction. Braverman currently lives in Russian Hill with her husband.
D
AVID
C
ORBETT
was an operative for the San Francisco private investigation firm of Palladino & Sutherland for fifteen years. His first book,
The Devil’s Redhead,
was nominated for the Barry and Anthony Awards for Best First Novel of 2002, and his second,
Done for a Dime,
was nominated for the Macavity Award for Best Novel of 2003 and was named a
New York Times
Notable Book. He lives in dismay.
B
ARRY
G
IFFORD
, a novelist
(Wild at Heart, Wyoming),
poet
(Back in America)
, and screenwriter
(Lost Highway, City of Ghosts)
has resided in or around San Francisco for thirty-five years. “After Hours at La Chinita” is an excerpt from his forthcoming book,
The Stars Above Veracruz.
For more information please visit
www.BarryGifford.com
.
J
ON
L
ONGHI
is the author of five books:
Bricks and Anchors, The Rise and Fall of Third Leg, Everyone at the Funeral Was Slam Dancing, Flashbacks and Premonitions,
and
Wake Up and Smell the Beer.
He has been published in numerous anthologies and has performed his work throughout the United States in cafés, bookstores, libraries, and nightclubs. He lives in San Francisco.
A
LVIN
L
U
was born in San Francisco. He wrote the “City God” column for the
San Francisco Bay Guardian
for several years and is also the author of a novel,
The Hell Screens
, published by Four Walls Eight Windows.
P
ETER
M
ARAVELIS
has been a bookseller for over fifteen years. He is currently the events coordinator for City Lights Bookstore. He was born and raised in San Francisco where he currently lives.
E
DDIE
M
ULLER
is a native San Franciscan and author of three popular studies of noir:
Dark City, Dark City Dames,
and
The Art of Noir.
He is a multiple Edgar and Anthony Award nominee, and the recipient of the Shamus Award for Best First Novel
(The Distance)
. He is founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to the rescue and preservation of “lost” and damaged noir films.
