Anyone know anything about this title? It's listed on Amazon
as having been due September 1, but it also notes that it has
not yet been published. So I looked up the publisher's
website, but they do not list it at all. They do, however,
list other City Noir books: Brooklyn Noir 1 & 2, Chicago
Noir and San Francisco Noir, each with an interesting line-up
of writers, some established crime writers, others less so.
There's also an anthology of cocaine stories edted by Gary
Phillips. The only two books I've read that were put out by
Akashic are Jose Latour's Outcast and Arthur Nersesian's The
Fuck-Up.
Anyway, their self-description from their website
(www.akashicbooks.com) is:
"Akashic Books is a New York City-based independent company
dedicated to publishing urban literary fiction and political
nonfiction by authors who are either ignored by the
mainstream, or who have no interest in working within the
ever-consolidating ranks of the major corporate
publishers."
I wonder if DC ex-pats might be involved, since all of the
little bit of music they distribute is from bands whose roots
are in DC. Plus they put out Dance of Days, the history of
DC's HarDCore punk scene. Makes me wonder why they haven't
put out a volume of DC Noir. Then again, wasn't George
Pelecanos working on such an anthology? Maybe it's for
them.
Mark
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