Berkeley Noir

Hardback

Main Details

Title Berkeley Noir
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Jerry Thompson
Edited by Owen Hill
Contributions by Barry Gifford
Contributions by Jim Nisbet
Contributions by Lexi Pandell
SeriesAkashic Noir
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:214
Dimensions(mm): Height 139,Width 215
Category/GenreAnthologies
Crime and mystery
Short stories
ISBN/Barcode 9781617759239
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.
Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.
Publication Date 5 May 2020
Publication Country United States

Description

Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighbourhood or location within the respective city. Brand-new stories by: Barry Gifford, Jim Nisbet, Lexi Pandell, Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Mara Faye Lethem, Thomas Burchfield, Shanthi Sekaran, Nick Mamatas, Kimn Neilson, Jason S. Ridler, Susan Dunlap, J.M. Curet, Summer Brenner, Michael David Lukas, Aya de Leon, and Owen Hill.

Author Biography

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.

Reviews

A fun and fully immersive read from cover to cover, Berkeley Noir is a mystery lover's delight. --Midwest Book Review A fine work from a talented pool of writers. --San Francisco Book Review Berkeley, California: home of a world-class university with a parking lot for Nobel laureates, politically active and correct, volatile, and, yes, a bit seedy, too, if you know where to look. The stories in Akashic's latest noir anthology expose the underbelly of this lovely city...All get their just rewards eventually, and readers will be entertained as they find out how it happens. --Booklist Readers will be glad that many of these tales are fun in a way that traditional noir isn't. --Publishers Weekly Sixteen new stories reveal the darker side of friendly, funky Berkeley. --Kirkus Reviews [A] quietly compelling short story collection. --Exclusive Magazine