Andrew Blossom, Brian Castleberry & Tom De Haven
5 Feb
Richmond Noir
Original airdate: February 5, 2010
An anthology of all-new noir stories set in Richmond neighborhoods, edited by Blossom, Castleberry and De Haven. With a forward by Tom Robbins.
Features stories by: Dean King, Laura Browder, Howard Owen, Yazmina Beverly, Tom De Haven, X.C. Atkins, Meagan J. Saunders, Anne Thomas Soffee, Clint McCown, Conrad Ashley Persons, Clay McLeod Chapman, Pir Rothenberg, David L. Robbins, Hermine Pinson, and Dennis Danvers.
From the introduction…
“In The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, Henry Miller tosses off a hard-bitten assessment of the City on the James: ‘I would rather die in Richmond somehow,’ he writes, ‘though God knows Richmond has little enough to offer.’ As editors, we like the dying part, and might point out that in its long history, Richmond, Virginia has offered up many of the disparate elements crucial to meaty noir. The city was born amid deception, conspiracy, and violence…”
Tom De Haven is the author of seventeen books, including Freaks’ Amour, Sunburn Lake, It’s Superman! and the Derby Dugan trilogy of novels. Andrew Blossom is the founding editor of Makeout Creek. Brian Castleberry is a playwright, novelist, and music critic. –from www.akashicbooks.com
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