The Akashic Noir Series\' forensic study of Southern California sharpens its focus on one of Los Angeles\'s most recognized neighborhoods.
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 fin.
From South Park to East Martin Luther King Jr. . .
The settings herein reflect South Central today or chronicle its colorful past, such as the days of the jazz joints along Central Avenue .
Excursions beyond the headlines and the hype.
You\'ll find the offerings in these pages are a rich mix of tone--tales told of hope, survival, revenge, and triumph.
Other times the steps they take are to get themselves or people they care about out from under. whatever it is to finally put them over. . .
Maybe they\'re planning the grift, the grab .
Maybe it\'s someone taking a step out of line, getting caught up in circumstances spiraling out of their control.
From the Introduction by Gary Phillips Within these pages you\'ll find stories of those walking the straight and narrow--until something untoward happens. --New York Times Book Review 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.
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.
Akashic Books offers its latest city-centric Noir anthology with South Central Noir (Akashic, 275 pp., paperback, $16.95), which includes 14 top-notch stories about one of Los Angeles\'s most chronicled neighborhoods. --Los Angeles Times Let\'s make some space for crime fiction in miniature. with the result that their work--and their city--is much richer for the exercise. . .
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 . . .
But Gary Phillips, who grew up there, has a more historically complex point of view . . .
Or maybe you know it through television .
If you\'re of a certain age, your perception of South Los Angeles might have been formed by riots and rappers.
The Akashic Noir Series\' forensic study of Southern California sharpens its focus on one of Los Angeles\'s most recognized neighborhoods
