South Central Noir
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The Akashic Noir Series' forensic study of Southern California sharpens its focus on one of Los Angeles's most recognized neighborhoods.
"If you're of a certain age, your perception of South Los Angeles might have been formed by riots and rappers. Or maybe you know it through television . . . But Gary Phillips, who grew up there, has a more historically complex point of view . . . For Phillips and the 13 other writers who contributed to his just-published anthology, those narrower, pop-infused renditions are just the tip of the iceberg . . . with the result that their work—and their city—is much richer for the exercise." —Los Angeles Times
"Let's make some space for crime fiction in miniature. Akashic Books offers its latest city-centric noir anthology with South Central Noir, which includes 14 top-notch stories about one of Los Angeles's most chronicled neighborhoods. The editor, Gary Phillips—whose most recent novel is One-Shot Harry—has assembled a formidable group of writers that includes Jervey Tervalon, Tananarive Due, Naomi Hirahara, Steph Cha and Penny Mickelbury." —New York Times Book Review
From the Introduction by Gary Phillips
"Within these pages you'll find stories of those walking the straight and narrow—until something untoward happens. Maybe it's someone taking a step out of line, getting caught up in circumstances spiraling out of their control. Maybe they're planning the grift, the grab . . . whatever it is to finally put them over. Other times the steps they take are to get themselves or people they care about out from under. You'll find the offerings in these pages are a rich mix of tone—tales told of hope, survival, revenge, and triumph. Excursions beyond the headlines and the hype.
The settings herein reflect South Central today or chronicle its colorful past, such as the days of the jazz joints along Central Avenue . . . From South Park to East Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, from the borderlands of Watts to the one-time Southern Pacific railroad tracks paralleling Slauson Avenue, take a tour of a section of Los Angeles that may be unfamiliar to you but you will get to know, at least a little, by the time you finish reading this entertaining and engaging anthology."
Featuring brand-new stories by: Steph Cha, Nikolas Charles, Tananarive Due, Larry Fondation, Gar Anthony Haywood, Naomi Hirahara, Emory Holmes II, Roberto Lovato, Penny Mickelbury, Gary Phillips, Eric Stone, Jervey Tervalon, Jeri Westerson, and Désirée Zamorano.
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Gary Phillips. (2022). South Central Noir. Akashic Books, Ltd.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Gary Phillips. 2022. South Central Noir. Akashic Books, Ltd.
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The Akashic Noir Series' forensic study of Southern California sharpens its focus on one of Los Angeles's most recognized neighborhoods.
"If you're of a certain age, your perception of South Los Angeles might have been formed by riots and rappers. Or maybe you know it through television . . . But Gary Phillips, who grew up there, has a more historically complex point of view . . . For Phillips and the 13 other writers who contributed to his just-published anthology, those narrower, pop-infused renditions are just the tip of the iceberg . . . with the result that their work—and their city—is much richer for the exercise." —Los Angeles Times
"Let's make some space for crime fiction in miniature. Akashic Books offers its latest city-centric noir anthology with South Central Noir, which includes 14 top-notch stories about one of Los Angeles's most chronicled neighborhoods. The editor, Gary Phillips—whose most recent novel is One-Shot Harry—has assembled a formidable group of writers that includes Jervey Tervalon, Tananarive Due, Naomi Hirahara, Steph Cha and Penny Mickelbury." —New York Times Book Review
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"Within these pages you'll find stories of those walking the straight and narrow—until something untoward happens. Maybe it's someone taking a step out of line, getting caught up in circumstances spiraling out of their control. Maybe they're planning the grift, the grab . . . whatever it is to finally put them over. Other times the steps they take are to get themselves or people they care about out from under. You'll find the offerings in these pages are a rich mix of tone—tales told of hope, survival, revenge, and triumph. Excursions beyond the headlines and the hype.
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June 27, 2022
The 14 tales in this strong entry in Akashic’s noir series focus on the robust past and present of one of the most notorious areas not just in Southern California but the country. One highlight is Steph Cha’s gripping “All Luck,” in which a beleaguered Korean liquor store owner faces mounting financial pressure from gambling debts and sees the 1992 riots as his salvation so long as an insurance payout comes through. Landmarks figure prominently in numerous stories: in Emory Holmes II’s heartbreaking 1930s coming-of-age period piece “The Golden Coffin,” his hapless young narrator’s employment prospects at the prestigious Dunbar hotel intertwine with a serial killer running rampant; in Gar Anthony Haywood’s “All That Glitters,” a Watts Towers security guard learns about an urban legend associated with the unusual structures; and in Naomi Hirahara’s “I Am Yojimbo,” a clueless 14-year-old employee of the Kokusai Theatre discovers a racy VHS tape left behind and soon has yakuza after him. Phillips and his contributors dig deep, presenting a rich tapestry of stories varied in tone and perspective.
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Editor Phillips packs 33 square miles of one of Los Angeles' most iconic neighborhoods into 14 compact stories. Many of the contributors choose historic venues as their settings. In Emory Holmes II's "The Golden Coffin," a Mississippi country boy discovers the grandeur of the Dunbar Hotel, "built by Black folks to cater to people of color in a segregated city." In "All That Glitters," Gar Anthony Haywood sets a family drama inside quirky Watts Towers. Naomi Hirahara chronicles the last day of the Kokusai Theatre in "I Am Yojimbo." Other tales focus more on historic events. Penny Mickelbury reflects on the changing demographics of the Great Migration in "Mae's Family Dining." D�sir�e Zamorano offers a chilling look at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in "If Found Please Return to Abigail Serna 158 3/4 E MLK Blvd." Still others offer tales of misery that know no time or place. A teenager tries to save her baby brother from their neglectful mother in Jervey Tervalon's "How Hope Found Chauncey." In "The Last Time I Died," Jeri Westerson's feisty schoolgirl meets her match at St. Vincent's Academy, a Catholic girls' school. A former ward of the state makes his uneasy way forward in Nikolas Charles' "Where the Smoke Meets the Sky." And two ex-GI's make an uneasy adjustment to civilian life in editor Phillips' "Death of a Sideman." These stories offer a strong sense of their community, covering a remarkable lot of ground on their beat.COPYRIGHT(2022) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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