At 08:33 PM 17/04/2007, you wrote:
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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com,
>"Kerry J. Schooley"
><gsp.schoo@...> wrote:
>
> > Peter Sellers and I managed to put out three
anthologies of Canuck
>Noir a few short years back
>
>How did that series do?
Not particularly well. But I think, longer term, it has
helped establish some recognition of the genre in
Canada.
> I picked up two of them. Did it sell
>internationally?
Not so's you'd notice. A number of books took brief vacations
in England and the US and have returned home to take early
retirement.
>Anymore to come?
No plans that I'm aware of. Of course, if the problem was
with one-half of the editing, as seems likely, then I'd be
last to know.
I've learned to find contentment with the odd bits of
critical acclaim gathered here and there, and to use them to
spout off about Canuck Noir when someone says Canada's much
too nice a place to host such genre trash.
>I notice Akashic has a Toronto Noir at the very
bottom of its
>forthcoming books schedule, long after Istanbul Noir
and Lagos Noir,
>although I won't get depressed about the placement
because the list
>appears to be in alphabetical order.
>
>Aside from the Canuck stuff, I'm looking forward to
the international
>flavour of several upcoming titles in the Akashic
series (Istanbul,
>Lagos, Delhi, Havana, Paris, Rome). I'm currently
thoroughly
>enjoying Robert Wilson's The Big Killing and a big
part of it is the
>West African setting. It adds a different perspective
simply because
>everyday norms are so different from the usual North
American or
>English settings, yet it contains familiar noir
themes. I'm hoping
>these upcoming Akashic books will give me more of
that since I can't
>really think of too many noir titles set outside the
US or Great
>Britain.
I think that is a relatively new trend in noir - or possibly
an old one still growing - using noir to explore the crime
and social scene in other societies. I'd very much like to
read what's now considered noir in Toronto, and hope it's not
failing to thank the automatic checkout machines at
Loblaws.
What could be more evil? Kerry
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