Vancouver Noir
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Sam Wiebe. (2018). Vancouver Noir. Akashic Books.

Sam Wiebe. 2018. Vancouver Noir. Akashic Books.

Sam Wiebe, Vancouver Noir. Akashic Books, 2018.

Sam Wiebe. Vancouver Noir. Akashic Books, 2018.

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This “excellent anthology” of noir fiction set in Canada’s City of Glass features all-new stories by Linda L. Richards, Sam Wiebe, Yasuko Thanh and more (Quill & Quire, starred review).
 
For many people, Vancouver is a city of affluence, athleisure, and craft beer. But if look a little closer at this gentrified paradise, you’ll find the old saying holds true: behind every fortune there’s a crime. Hidden beneath Vancouver’s gleaming glass skyscrapers are shadowy streets where poverty, drugs, and violence rule the day. These fourteen stories of crime and mayhem in the Pacific Northwest offer an entertaining “mix of wily pros, moody misfits, bewildered bystanders, and a touch of the supernatural” (Kirkus).
 
Vancouver Noir features the Arthur Ellis Award-winning story “Terminal City” by Linda L. Richards, and the Arthur Ellis Award-finalist “Wonderful Life” by Sam Wiebe. It also includes entries by Timothy Taylor, Sheena Kamal, Robin Spano, Carleigh Baker, Dietrich Kalteis, Nathan Ripley, Yasuko Thanh, Kristi Charish, Don English, Nick Mamatas, S.G. Wong, and R.M. Greenaway.

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1. • premium: False
   • source: Toronto Star
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     "Vancouver is the noirest city in the country, and probably one of the noirest in the world. It's a port city, with its stubbornly ungentrified neighbourhoods kicking against one of the world's craziest real estate scenes, with strong Indigenous and Asian presence as a foundational urban principle, not to mention a history of gruesome crime and political intrigue...[Vancouver Noir] will do the work to wrench Vancouver's identity away from the banality of real estate into something chewy, like literary murder."

2. • premium: False
   • source: CrimeReads
   • content: The rain-soaked Pacific Northwest may not be a tradition setting for 'noir' but with a city in flux, like Vancouver, there's no shortage of incisive, mysterious, violent stories, touching on the city's housing crisis, its thriving movie industry, and many more mysteries. Contributors include Nathan Ripley, Sheena Kamal, and the collection's editor, Sam Wiebe. This is the perfect balance of captivating page-turners and hard-hitting social noirs."
3. • premium: False
   • source: New York Journal of Books
   • content: The beauty of the Akashic series of noir short story anthologies is that they offer local writers a chance to say 'here's our town.' This crop of writers, assembled and edited by Sam Wiebe, succeeds in a gritty, moody way."
4. • premium: False
   • source: Kirkus Reviews
   • content: Despite its rainy weather, Vancouver has a sunny disposition: diverse, optimistic, welcoming. But editor Wiebe maintains that it has its share of urban troubles: poverty, drugs, violence. Gentrification may make Vancouver's crime look a little less gritty, but it's just as corrosive...Given the book's mix of wily pros, moody misfits, bewildered bystanders, and a touch of the supernatural, Wiebe makes a strong case that as far as crime is concerned, Vancouver is 'a city like any other.'"
5. • premium: False
   • source: Library Journal
   • content: The latest Akashic 'Noir' collection features stories by Canadian writers, both crime writers and not, residents and expats, with stories all about characters who live in gritty everyday Vancouver, BC, settings...For fans of the city, noir fiction, and the series."
6. • premium: False
   • source: Shelf Awareness for Readers
   • content: Vancouver Noir...keeps its quality as high as its characters' moral standards are low...Akashic Books, publisher of an excellent regional noir anthology series, gives Vancouver a pat-down."
7. • premium: False
   • source: BrokenPencil
   • content: Indeed, the 21st century has already given us an abundance of noir-themed Vancouver texts. These include a bevy of true crime books, several photo histories, and more than one noir anthology. A nadir comes this fall with the arrival of a new Vancouver noir anthology from Brooklyn-based small press Akashic Books. Akashic, with a long-running series of city-specific noir fiction anthologies including Toronto, Montreal, Buenos Aires, Singapore, and even Cape Cod, offers up what might very well be the crown jewel of Vancouver noir texts."
8. • premium: False
   • source: Publishers Weekly
   • content: Weibe and the 13 other mostly Canadian contributors to this solid anthology expose the seedy underbelly that belies the Vancouver known to tourists and fans of the many films shot in Hollywood North...Noir aficionados will find plenty to like."
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     September 1, 2018
     Fourteen brand-new reasons why life isn't all shiny and bright in the City of Glass.Despite its rainy weather, Vancouver has a sunny disposition: diverse, optimistic, welcoming. But editor Wiebe maintains that it has its share of urban troubles: poverty, drugs, violence. Gentrification may make Vancouver's crime look a little less gritty, but it's just as corrosive, as Timothy Taylor's "Saturna Island" and Robin Spano's "The Perfect Playgroup" prove. And the process of repurposing old neighborhoods has sharp downsides disclosed by Carleigh Baker's "The Midden." Nathan Ripley's "The Landecker Party" shows that criminal intent hasn't skipped the millennials, although Nick Mamatas presents some crooks who still like the old-school ways in "The One Who Walks with a Limp." Vancouver's crime is also equal-opportunity. Women get their share of the action in Linda L. Richards' "Terminal City" and R.M. Greenaway's "The Threshold," although the line between male domination and female empowerment can blur, as Don English reveals in "Stitches." People with disabilities get caught up in mayhem in Kristi Charish's "The Demon of Steveston." And old age is no proof against crime, as S.G. Wong's "Survivors' Pension" and Wiebe's "Wonderful Life" demonstrate.Given the book's mix of wily pros, moody misfits, bewildered bystanders, and a touch of the supernatural, Wiebe makes a strong case that as far as crime is concerned, Vancouver is "a city like any other."

     COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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      September 10, 2018
      Weibe and the 13 other mostly Canadian contributors to this solid anthology expose the seedy underbelly that belies the Vancouver known to tourists and fans of the many films shot in Hollywood North. One highlight is Linda L. Richard’s “Terminal City,” a surprisingly tense-yet-moving cat and mouse story about a female assassin who falls for her target. Another notable entry is Sheena Kamal’s “Eight Game-Changing Tips on Public Speaking.” This second-person narrative, constructed as an informational article designed for a slimeball of a boss, deceptively mystifies before dropping the hammer down in karmic fashion. In Yasuko Thanh’s shattering “Burned,” three prostitutes gather at a diner in the city’s red-light district. Their conversation gradually reveals the narrator’s dismay as she learns of the criminal heartlessness of her two companions. In Nick Mamatas’s unsettling “The One Who Walks with a Limp,” set in what used to be the city’s Greektown, a young man learns some unpleasant truths about his grandparents and WWII. Not every selection is a winner, but noir aficionados will find plenty to like.

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      November 15, 2018
      

      The latest Akashic "Noir" collection features stories by Canadian writers, both crime writers and not, residents and expats, with stories all about characters who live in gritty everyday Vancouver, BC, settings. Here readers can explore the financial district through a disgruntled employee in Sheena Kamal's "Eight Game-Changing Tips on Public Speaking." The tips are worthwhile if a little unusual but the story is unforgettable. Sam Wiebe's characters clean up gang activity along Commercial Drive in "Wonderful Life." R.M. Greenway's standout "The Threshold" questions a photographer's morals when he waits to call 911 as a dying man's life drains away, providing the perfect image. Robin Spano's "The Perfect Playgroup" stars a superficial, label-driven woman who is the catalyst for revenge. Crime abounds, affecting regular people who struggle to make rent and care for their families. As Carleigh Baker writes in "The Midden," there are rats in these stories, both four-legged and two-, scurrying through the pages, in basements, on the streets, even in the homes of the well-to-do. VERDICT For fans of the city, noir fiction, and the series.--Frances Thorsen, Victoria, BC

      Copyright 2018 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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For many people, Vancouver is a city of affluence, athleisure, and craft beer. But if look a little closer at this gentrified paradise, you’ll find the old saying holds true: behind every fortune there’s a crime. Hidden beneath Vancouver’s gleaming glass skyscrapers are shadowy streets where poverty, drugs, and violence rule the day. These fourteen stories of crime and mayhem in the Pacific Northwest offer an entertaining “mix of wily pros, moody misfits, bewildered bystanders, and a touch of the supernatural” (Kirkus).
 
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