Houston Noir - Gwendolyn Zepeda
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Brooklyn Noir came first in 2004, and now, 15 years later, Houston Noir--14 stories of intrigue, betrayal and death set from Tanglewood to Third Ward penned by current or former Houston authors--goes on sale. --Houston ChronicleAkashic Books\'s long-running Noir Series tasks writers with imagining the dark sides of their communities, spinning gritty, shocking tales atop the local landscape. Recently the publisher tapped writer and former Houston poet laureate Gwendolyn Zepeda to serve as editor on a collection of stories about her native Bayou City. The end result is Houston Noir, out this month, whose 14 entries explore the murder, betrayal, and brujer a lurking everywhere from River Oaks to the Ship Channel to a trailer park off FM 1960. --Houstonia MagazineHouston is a city on the rise when it comes to crime fiction--something about all those lonely highways, gravity-defying overpasses, and drastic urban sprawl (and of course, the crime rate) make Houston a perfect setting for noir. This port city of close to five million residents is ready for a new reputation as a world capital of literature, and we\'re here to support Akashic\'s new collection of noir tales from Texas\'s most complex city. --CrimeReads, included in The Best New Crime Fiction of May 2019With sprawl and serial killers, Houston Noir packs a mean punch...Houston Noir is a welcome addition to the city\'s slowly filling bookcase. --Texas ObserverEditor Gwendolyn Zepeda has cannily divided the collection into four separate areas of the city, which only serves to multiply a reader\'s certainty: Like the sodden sheet covering a much-lacerated corpse, all of Houston is pretty much dripping with crime. Best to experience it, we suggest, only between the covers of this new paperback. --Austin ChronicleAkashic 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: Tom Abrahams, Robert Boswell, Sarah Cortez, Anton DiSclafani, Stephanie Jaye Evans, Wanjiku Wa Ngugi, Adrienne Perry, Pia Pico, Reyes Ramirez, Icess Fernandez Rojas, Sehba Sarwar, Leslie Contreras Schwartz, Larry Watts, and Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton.From the introduction by Gwendolyn Zepeda: In a 2004 essay, Hunter S. Thompson described Houston as a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a cu
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Brooklyn Noir came first in 2004, and now, 15 years later, Houston Noir--14 stories of intrigue, betrayal and death set from Tanglewood to Third Ward penned by current or former Houston authors--goes on sale. --Houston ChronicleAkashic Books\'s long-running Noir Series tasks writers with imagining the dark sides of their communities, spinning gritty, shocking tales atop the local landscape. Recently the publisher tapped writer and former Houston poet laureate Gwendolyn Zepeda to serve as editor on a collection of stories about her native Bayou City. The end result is Houston Noir, out this month, whose 14 entries explore the murder, betrayal, and brujer a lurking everywhere from River Oaks to the Ship Channel to a trailer park off FM 1960. --Houstonia MagazineHouston is a city on the rise when it comes to crime fiction--something about all those lonely highways, gravity-defying overpasses, and drastic urban sprawl (and of course, the crime rate) make Houston a perfect setting for noir. This port city of close to five million residents is ready for a new reputation as a world capital of literature, and we\'re here to support Akashic\'s new collection of noir tales from Texas\'s most complex city. --CrimeReads, included in The Best New Crime Fiction of May 2019With sprawl and serial killers, Houston Noir packs a mean punch...Houston Noir is a welcome addition to the city\'s slowly filling bookcase. --Texas ObserverEditor Gwendolyn Zepeda has cannily divided the collection into four separate areas of the city, which only serves to multiply a reader\'s certainty: Like the sodden sheet covering a much-lacerated corpse, all of Houston is pretty much dripping with crime. Best to experience it, we suggest, only between the covers of this new paperback. --Austin ChronicleAkashic 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: Tom Abrahams, Robert Boswell, Sarah Cortez, Anton DiSclafani, Stephanie Jaye Evans, Wanjiku Wa Ngugi, Adrienne Perry, Pia Pico, Reyes Ramirez, Icess Fernandez Rojas, Sehba Sarwar, Leslie Contreras Schwartz, Larry Watts, and Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton.From the introduction by Gwendolyn Zepeda: In a 2004 essay, Hunter S. Thompson described Houston as a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a cu
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