Berkeley Noir -

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Résumé :
Berkeley brings its own unique blend of Bay Area noir, complementing the grit and grime that preceded it in San Francisco Noir and Oakland Noir .

Biographie:

JERRY THOMPSON is a bookseller, poet, playwright, and musician. His work has appeared in ZYZZYVA and the James White Review. He is the coauthor of Images of America: Black Artists in Oakland. His fiction and prose have appeared in various anthologies including Voices Rising, edited by G. Winston James, and Freedom in this Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing, edited by E. Lynn Harris. He is the coeditor of Oakland Noir.

OWEN HILL is the author of two crime novels, The Chandler Apartments and The Incredible Double, and he coedited The Annotated Big Sleep with Pamela Jackson and Anthony Dean Rizzuto. Until recently he lived in the Chandler Building on the corner of Telegraph and Dwight in Berkeley.

Sommaire:

Introduction

Part I: From the People's Republic
Hill House by Lexi Pandell (Berkeley Hills)
The Tangy Brine of Dark Night by Lucy Jane Bledsoe (Berkeley Marina)
Twin Flames by Mara Faye Lethem (Southside)
'Lucky Day' by Thomas Burchfield (Berkeley Public Library)
Barroom Butterfly by Barry Gifford (Central Berkeley)

Part II: Directly Across from the Golden Gate
Eat Your Pheasant, Drink Your Wine by Shanthi Sekaran (Kensington)
Every Man and Every Woman Is a Star by Nick Mamatas (Ho Chi Minh Park)
Still Life, Reviving by Kimn Neilson (Ocean View)
Shallow and Deep by Jason S. Ridler (Downtown Berkeley)
Boy Toy by Jim Nisbet (Yacht Harbor)

Part III: Company Town
The Law of Local Karma by Susan Dunlap (Gourmet Ghetto)
Wifebeater Tank Top by J.M. Curet (West Berkeley)
Identity Theft by Summer Brenner (North Berkeley)
Dear Fellow Graduates by Michael David Lukas (Indian Rock)
Frederick Douglass Elementary by Aya de Le?n (West Berkeley Flats)
Righteous Kill by Owen Hill (Gilman District)