Berkeley Noir (Akashic Noir)

Berkeley Noir (Akashic Noir)

Jerry Thompson (Editor), Owen Hill (Editor)
$15.95
Publication Date: May 5th, 2020
Publisher:
Akashic Books, Ltd.
ISBN:
9781617757976
Pages:
256
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Description

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.

“A fine work from a talented pool of writers.” —San Francisco Book Review

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 neighborhood 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 León, and Owen Hill.

About the Author

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 and Berkeley 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. He is the coeditor of Berkeley Noir.

Praise for Berkeley Noir (Akashic Noir)

A fun and fully immersive read from cover to cover, Berkeley Noir is a mystery lover’s delight.


— Midwest Book Review

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

This volume proves yet again that noir is discoverable anywhere there are human beings—in this case, a quirky university town on the east side of San Francisco Bay . . . Another fine entry in a series for the ages.
— New York Journal of Books

At first consideration one might wonder if Berkeley has enough of a seedy underbelly to produce credible settings and stories for such an anthology? The writing proves it does.
— The Berkeley Daily Planet

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