Long Island Noir

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Long Island Noir Pub. Date: 4/30/2012 Publisher: Akashic Books

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"There is plenty of mayhem for fans of dark fiction in the pages of Long Island Noir: shootings, killings, all manner of brutality...Suburbia may be even meaner than the big city."
--The New York Times

"Akashic’s Long Island volume in its regional noir series offers an eclectic and effective mix of seasoned pros (Reed Farrel Coleman, Tim McLoughlin, Sarah Weinman) and new voices (Qanta Ahmed, JZ Holden, Amani Scipio). The 17 contributors portray a wonderful diversity of people driven to extremes . . ."
--Publishers Weekly

Original stories by: Jules Feiffer, Matthew McGevna, Nick Mamatas, Kaylie Jones, Qanta Ahmed, Charles Salzberg, Reed Farrel Coleman, Tim McLoughlin, Sarah Weinman, JZ Holden, Richie Narvaez, Sheila Kohler, Jane Ciabattari, Steven Wishnia, Kenneth Wishnia, Amani Scipio, and Tim Tomlinson.

Kaylie Jones moved to Sagaponack, New York, in 1975, where her family continued to live for more than thirty years. She is the author of five novels, including A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries and the memoir Lies My Mother Never Told Me. She teaches in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton and in the Wilkes University low-residency MFA program in professional writing.

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Publishers Weekly

Akashic’s Long Island volume in its regional noir series offers an eclectic and effective mix of seasoned pros (Reed Farrel Coleman, Tim McLoughlin, Sarah Weinman) and new voices (Qanta Ahmed, JZ Holden, Amani Scipio). The 17 contributors portray a wonderful diversity of people driven to extremes, from Pakistani immigrant Anjali Osmaan, sent to “Amreekah” as a bride for an uncaring husband in Ahmed’s moving “Anjali’s America,” to the children of Southern migrants in Scipio’s despairing “Jabo’s.” Coleman’s “Mastermind,” in which a “wannabe” plans a perfect robbery, elicits sympathy for the poor fool. In Jane Ciabattari’s “Contents of House,” the victim of a mean-spirited divorce seeks a very tasty revenge. Steven Wishnia’s “Semiconscious” exposes the destructiveness of ultra–right-wing patriots’ response to immigrants, while in Kenneth Wishnia’s “Blood Drive” a laid-off construction worker finds new use for his work-hardened muscles. Jones’s succinct introduction aptly points to The Great Gatsby “as the first noir novel of Long Island.” (May)

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Longtime Long Islander Jones has collected a volume of 17 new stories as diverse as the massive island itself. Characters traveling to Long Island abound here. In Charles Salzberg's "A Starr Burns Bright," a man named Swann takes the LIRR out to Long Beach for a day to drop off a package for his old friend Goldblatt. Meanwhile, the local cops stop Nick, who's bound for Westhampton Beach in Matthew McGevna's "Gateway to the Stars," before he can get to the Dune Road mansion where his underage brother Jeffrey is headed for a weekend of "true Dionysian worship." Other characters come to Long Island to spend their so-called golden years. Sheila Kohler's "Terror" settles its heroine in Amagansett, where she and her husband bought a second home when land was cheap. Kaylie Jones (the book's editor) sends a writer and his second wife from Manhattan to Wainscott in "Home Invasion," only to reveal a questionable environment for his teenage daughter. And in "Past President," Sarah Weinman shows a retired cop that there's always room for crime in privileged Great Neck. A few characters come from very far away. In Amani Scipio's "Jabo's," May and Shangy hop a watermelon truck in Georgia and discover that even the Hamptons have a wrong side of town. And Qanta Ahmed turns the American dream into a nightmare for a bride from Pakistan in "Anjali's America." The best of these tales are perceptive glimpses into how people live out the choices they make. The worst are pointless recitations of one disaster after the other. No one escapes unscathed, but some wounds are redemptive; others just bleed.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781617750625
Publisher: Akashic Books
Publication date: 4/30/2012
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 321,153
Series: Akashic Noir Series
Product dimensions: 5.20 (w) x 8.20 (h) x 0.90 (d)

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Kaylie Jones

Kaylie Jones: Kaylie Jones moved to Sagaponack in 1975, where her family continued to live for more than thirty years. She is the author of five novels, including A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries, and the memoir Lies My Mother Never Told Me. She teaches in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton, and in the Wilkes University low-residency MFA program in professional writing.

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