San Francisco Noir (33 page)

A
LEJANDRO
M
URGUÍA
is the author of
Southern Front
, a short story collection about the Chicano internationalists in Nicaragua, which received an American Book Award in 1991.
This War Called Love, Nine Stories
was also honored with an American Book Award in 2002. He is working on a new collection of short stories,
Tropic Noir.

J
IM
N
ISBET
has published eight novels and five volumes of poetry. His novels include
The Gourmet (aka The Damned Don’t Die), Lethal Injection, Death Puppet, Prelude to a Scream, The Price of the Ticket
, and his latest,
The Syracuse Codex
. He lives in San Francisco where he operates the design firm Electronics Furniture.

P
ETER
P
LATE
is a self-taught fiction writer and former squatter in the Mission district of San Francisco. His books address the history and geography of inner-city life. His latest novel is
Fogtown
.

S
IN
S
ORACCO
was born at St. Luke’s Hospital in the Mission district of San Francisco. She makes up her life from whatever’s around—if there’s nothing handy, she goes somewhere else. The center remains steady: the intense visceral pleasure of stories. She says, “One day our stories will bring the bastards down.”

D
OMENIC
S
TANSBERRY
is known for his dark, innovative crime novels, including his award-winning North Beach mysteries,
The Last Days of Il Duce
and
Chasing the Dragon
. Stansberry is also the author of
The Confession
, a “modern noir shocker” that has been hailed as the vanguard of the neo-pulp renaissance. He has been nominated three times for the Edgar Allan Poe Award.

D
AVID
H
ENRY
S
TERRY
is both writer of and performer in a one-man show based on his memoir
Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent.
His next book will be
Putting Your Passion into Print.
He has worked as a chicken, chicken fryer, a Hollywood screenwriter, a cherry picker, a sitcom actor, a poet, a stand-up comic (at Holy City Zoo, Cobb’s, and Sutro Bathhouse), a barker (at the Garden of Eden on Broadway in San Francisco), and a marriage counselor.

M
ICHELLE
T
EA
is cofounder of the legendary all-girl spoken word road show known as Sister Spit. She has contributed to many fiction anthologies and written several acclaimed novels, the most recent of which was a collaboration with illustrator Laurenn McCubbin, titled
Rent Girl.
Her first collection of poetry,
The Beautiful,
was released in 2004 by Manic D Press and she curates a reading series called SF Radar at the San Francisco Main Library.

Also available from Akashic Books

BROOKLYN NOIR
edited by Tim McLoughlin

350 pages, a trade paperback original, $15.95, ISBN: 1-888451-58-0 *Finalist stories for
EDGAR AWARD, PUSHCART PRIZE,
and
SHAMUS
AWARD

Twenty brand new crime stories from New York’s punchiest borough. Contributors include: Pete Hamill, Arthur Nersesian, Maggie Estep, Nelson George, Neal Pollack, Sidney Offit, Ken Bruen, and others.

“
Brooklyn Noir
is such a stunningly perfect combination that you can’t believe you haven’t read an anthology like this before. But trust me—you haven’t. Story after story is a revelation, filled with the requisite sense of place, but also the perfect twists that crime stories demand. The writing is flat-out superb, filled with lines that will sing in your head for a long time to come.”

—Laura Lippman, winner of the Edgar, Agatha, and Shamus awards

BROOKLYN NOIR
2
: THE CLASSICS
edited by Tim McLoughlin

309 pages, trade paperback, $15.95, ISBN: 1-888451-76-9

Brooklyn Noir
is back with a vengeance, this time with masters of yore mixing with the young blood: H.P. Lovecraft, Lawrence Block, Donald Westlake, Pete Hamill, Jonathan Lethem, Colson Whitehead, Irwin Shaw, Carolyn Wheat, Thomas Wolfe, Hubert Selby, Stanley Ellin, Gilbert Sorrentino, Maggie Estep, and Salvatore La Puma.

CHICAGO NOIR
edited by Neal Pollack

252 pages, a trade paperback original, $14.95, ISBN: 1-888451-89-0

Chicago Noir
is populated by hired killers and jazzmen, drunks and dreamers, corrupt cops and ticket scalpers and junkies. It’s the Chicago that the Department of Tourism doesn’t want you to see, a place where hard cases face their sad fates, and pay for their sins in blood. This isn’t someone’s dream of Chicago. It’s not even a nightmare. It’s just the real city, unfiltered.
Chicago Noir.

Brand new stories by:
Neal Pollack, Achy Obejas, Alexai Galaviz-Budziszewski, Adam Langer, Joe Meno, Peter Orner, Kevin Guilfoile, Bayo Ojikutu, Jeff Allen, Luciano Guerriero, Claire Zulkey, Andrew Ervin, M.K. Meyers, Todd Dills, C.J. Sullivan, Daniel Buckman, Amy Sayre-Roberts, and Jim Arndorfer.