Chicago Noir: The Classics (Akashic Noir)
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Joe Meno. (2015). Chicago Noir: The Classics (Akashic Noir). Akashic Books, Ltd.

Joe Meno. 2015. Chicago Noir: The Classics (Akashic Noir). Akashic Books, Ltd.

Joe Meno, Chicago Noir: The Classics (Akashic Noir). Akashic Books, Ltd, 2015.

Joe Meno. Chicago Noir: The Classics (Akashic Noir). Akashic Books, Ltd, 2015.

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   • bioText: JOE MENO is a fiction writer and journalist who lives in Chicago. Winner of the Nelson Algren Literary Award, a Pushcart Prize, and a finalist for the Story Prize, Meno is the best-selling author of several novels and short story collections including Marvel and a Wonder, The Great Perhaps, The Boy Detective Fails, and Hairstyles of the Damned; he also edited Chicago Noir: The Classics. He is a professor in the English and Creative Writing Department at Columbia College Chicago. Book of Extraordinary Tragedies is his latest work.
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Nelson Algren, Richard Wright, and Patricia Highsmith are just three of the iconic authors included in this outstanding volume.

"In this superior entry in Akashic's noir series, Meno offers nearly a century of Chicago crime fiction. . . . Familiar bylines abound: Max Allan Collins, Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, Sherwood Anderson, Fredric Brown, Patricia Highsmith (with an excerpt from her novel The Price of Salt), Stewart M. Kaminsky, Sara Paretsky. Others may be less familiar to mystery specialists, but all turn in impressive performances." —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

"Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, and Sandra Cisneros are not crime-fiction writers, and yet their Chicago certainly embodies the individual-crushing ethos endemic to noir. Meno also includes stories from writers who could easily have been overlooked (Percy Spurlark Parker, Hugh Holton) to ensure that diverse voices, and neighborhoods, are represented. Add in smart and essential choices from Fredric Brown, Sara Paretsky, and Stuart Kaminsky, and you have not an anthology not for crime-fiction purists, perhaps, but a thought-provoking document all the same." —Booklist

Although Los Angeles may be considered the most quintessentially "noir" American city, this volume reveals that pound-for-pound, Chicago has historically been able to stand up to any other metropolis in the noir arena.

Classic reprints from: Harry Stephen Keeler, Sherwood Anderson, Max Allan Collins, Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, Fredric Brown, Patricia Highsmith, Barry Gifford, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Libby Fischer Hellmann, Sara Paretsky, Percy Spurlark Parker, Sandra Cisneros, Hugh Holton, and Stuart Dybek.

From the introduction by Joe Meno:

More corrupt than New York, less glamorous than LA, Chicago has more murders per capita than any other city its size. With its sleek skyscrapers bisecting the fading sky like an unspoken threat, Chicago is the closest metropolis to the mythical city of shadows as first described in the work of Chandler, Hammett, and Cain. Only in Chicago do instituted color lines offer generation after generation of poverty and violence, only in Chicago do the majority of governors do prison time, only in Chicago do the dead actually vote twice.

Chicago—more than the metropolis that gave the world Al Capone, the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, the death of John Dillinger, the crimes of Leopold and Loeb, the horrors of John Wayne Gacy, the unprecedented institutional corruption of so many recent public officials, more than the birthplace of Raymond Chandler—is a city of darkness. This darkness is not an act of over-imagination. It's the unadulterated truth. It's a pointed though necessary reminder of the grave tragedies of the past and the failed possibilities of the present. Fifty years in the future, I hope these stories are read only as fiction, as somewhat distant fantasy. Here's hoping for some light.

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     Starred review from July 13, 2015
     In this superior entry in Akashic’s noir series, Meno (Office Girl) offers nearly a century of Chicago crime fiction, starting with Harry Stephen Keeler’s sprightly “30 Seconds of Darkness,” originally published in 1916. Hugh Holton’s “The Thirteenth Amendment,” one of the newer stories out of the 15 included, is a work of satirical science fiction set in the future America of President Newt Gingrich. Familiar bylines abound: Max Allan Collins, Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, Sherwood Anderson, Fredric Brown, Patricia Highsmith (with an excerpt from her novel The Price of Salt), Stewart M. Kaminsky, Sara Paretsky. Others may be less familiar to mystery specialists, but all turn in impressive performances. If one selection rises above the anthology’s consistently high level, it would be Kaminsky’s “Blue Note,” a high-tension tale that merges a love for the blues with the psychology of high-stakes poker, a character study, and a surprising ending.

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     Editor Meno (Office Girl, 2012) believes the tension between the literary elite and the man on the street is one of noir's most enduring qualities. Arguing that Chicago is perhaps the genre's truest embodiment, he has selected stories that range from classic detective tales to others that would not be considered noir, or even crime fiction, by most mystery fans. Aside from several odd choices ( 30 Seconds of Darkness, by cult punchline Harry Stephen Keeler, and an excerpt from Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt in which Chicago serves as a road-trip stopover), it's a mostly effective combination. Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, and Sandra Cisneros are not crime-fiction writers, and yet their Chicago certainly embodies the individual-crushing ethos endemic to noir. Meno also includes stories from writers who could easily have been overlooked (Percy Spurlark Parker, Hugh Holton) to ensure that diverse voices, and neighborhoods, are represented. Add in smart and essential choices from Fredric Brown, Sara Paretsky, and Stuart Kaminsky, and you have an anthology not for crime-fiction purists, perhaps, but a thought-provoking document all the same.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)

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Introduction
Part I: The Jazz Age
Harry S. Keeler, "Thirty Seconds of Darkness" Rogers Park
Sherwood Anderson, "Brothers" Douglas
Max Allan Collins, "Kaddish for the Kid" West Town
Richard Wright, "The Man Who Went to Chicago" (EXCERPT) Illinois Medical District
Part II: Noir and Neo-Noir
Nelson Algren, "He Swung and He Missed" Lakeview
Fredric Brown, "I'll Cut Your Throat Again, Kathleen" Magnificent Mile
Patricia Highsmith, "The Price of Salt" (EXCERPT) Gold Coast
Barry Gifford, "Starving Dogs of Little Croatia" Wicker Park
Stuart Kaminsky, "Blue Note" Woodlawn
Libby Fischer Hellman, "The Whole World is Watching" Grant Park
Part III: Modern Crime
Sarah Paretsky, "Skin Deep" Michigan Avenue
Percy Spurlark Parker, "Death and the Point Spread" Lawndale
Sandra Cisneros, "One Holy Night" Pilsen
Hugh Holton, "The thirtieth amendment" Bridgeport
Stuart Dybek, "We Didn't" Oak Street Beach

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