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Brooklyn Noir is on fire! It is an Edgar Award finalist for "The Book Signing" by Pete Hamill; winner of the MWA's Robert L. Fish Memorial Award for "Can't Catch Me" by Thomas Morrissey; a Shamus Award finalist for "Hasidic Noir" by Pearl Abraham; a Pushcart Prize finalist for "Practicing" by Ellen Miller; an Anthony Award finalist for "Hunter/Trapper" by Arthur Nersesian; an Anthony Award finalist for Best Cover Art.Brooklyn Noir stories "When All This Was Bay Ridge" by Tim McLoughlin and "Case Closed" by Lou Manfredo have both been selected for Best American Mystery Stories 2005 edited by Joyce Carol Oates and Otto Penzler."A collection of crime stories set in different Brooklyn neighborhoods, edited by Mr. McLoughlin...The stories are set far and wide in the borough, from Red Hook to Bushwick to Canarsie...Brooklyn has always occupied a special place in the imagination of America writers, who have been captivated by its raffishness."--New York Times"[An] anthology of 19 brand new hard-boiled and twisted tales, each set in a different Brooklyn neighborhood...the best stories concern people in the present coming to terms with the past."--Publisher’s Weekly"New York's punchiest borough asserts its criminal legacy with brand-new stories from a magnificent set of today's best writers. Brooklyn Noir moves from Coney Island to Bedford-Stuyvesant to Bay Ridge to Red Hook to Bushwick to Sheepshead Bay to Park Slope and far deeper, into the heart of Brooklyn's historical and criminal largesse, with all of its dark splendor."--Brooklyn Daily Eagle"Brooklyn Noir’s contributors are aware of their surroundings, literal and literary...Be cool: This pulp's got enough juice to keep the margaritas flowing."--Village Voice"It's all Brooklyn—Bensonhurst and Brighton Beach, Red Hook and Crown Heights—in this atmospheric collection of noir tales."--Booklist“This Brooklyn is cagey and unpredictable. This is about the shadowy corners, the musty old bars and the sidewalks littered with broken glass. In Brooklyn Noir, you can’t take anything for granted.”--Brooklyn Paper"A recent publication from Akashic Books is the laudable Brooklyn Noir, a collection of dark tales set in New York's self-proclaimed punchiest borough...the story by Peter Hamill is more than worth the price of the whole book."--New York Sun"718 represent!...Brooklyn Noir will make "you'se" leave the light on at night."--Metro"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, Shamus and Agatha awards"An excellent collection of Brooklyn stories that I urge everyone to read."--Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn Borough PresidentContributors include Pete Hamill, Nelson George, Sidney Offit, Arthur Nersesian, Pearl Abraham, Ellen Miller, Maggie Estep, Adam Mansbach, CJ Sullivan, Chris Niles, Norman Kelley, and many others.Akashic Books announces Brooklyn novelist Tim McLoughlin as the editor of the anthology (in addition to his contributing a story). McLoughlin's respect on any Brooklyn street predates the publication of his debut novel Heart of the Old Country (Akashic, 2001), a selection of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program that was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as "an inspired cross between Richard Price and Ross McDonald." For years, McLoughlin has worked in the Kings County Supreme Court in downtown Brooklyn.

Picking up where Black Heat, the first installment of the Nina Halligan trilogy, left off, The Big Mango takes the reader to the tropical island-nation of Misericordia. A recent popular uprising, led by local folk hero, Father Pierre-Pierre Bernard, provided the island's poor mulatto masses with a rare moment of freedom. Less skilled in making decisions than in weighing the merits of each position, "the Hamlet of the Caribbean" cowered in the face of the harsh realities of political life on the island and was soon deposed to exile in the U.S. by a right-wing military coup.

Enter Nina Halligan, the headstrong, street-savvy protagonist of Norman Kelley's triology. An activist in the African-American community in New York, the private investigator has a nose for scandal and corruption. With the brutal murder and public defamation of her close friend, Michael Debord, an insider in the administration of U.S. President Jeffrey Benton, Nina is persuaded to head south to find the killer and return Bernard to power.

The real fireworks begin the moment Nina arrives in Misericordia, where she soon learns that the real threat to the island's security is her old nemesis, Oscar Peltrano (a.k.a. Nate Ford), and a vicious team of corporate mercenaries. As the novel progresses and the body count increases, Nina manages to enlist the assistance of a motley crew of political subversives, including a voluptuous local nightclub diva named La Bomba, and Esperanza, a gregarious innkeeper with "a little something extra." As the novel spins toward its explosive conclusion, Nina and her new friends wage a bloody and costly war against Peltrano and his henchmen to avenge their loss and return the island to its people.

Norman Kelley is a freelance journalist, author, and producer at WBAI 99.5 FM (Pacifica Radio). He has written for the Black Star News, New Politics, Black Renaissance/Noir, The Bedford Stuyvesant Current, and Word.com, and has also written op-ed pieces for Newsday.

South Brooklyn. Not the Brooklyn of Spike Lee or Matty Rich, but a those left behind in the white flight. Mike is 19 and at loose driving for Big Lou's Car Service and trying to decide if he should stay in college or drift into the omnipresent arena of local organized crime. Mike's life is changed forever as he's forced to confront the grim realities of wiseguy justice and his own culpability in its execution. Echoing such urban low-life classics as Price's The Wanderers and Selby's Last Exit , this novel offers an honest, unromantic look at Brooklyn's underclass. Tim McLoughlin was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, where he still resides. He is employed in the King's County Supreme Court. Critical praise for Heart of the Old "Set in the depths of working-class Brooklyn, this zippy first novel reads like an inspired cross between Richard Price's Bloodbrothers and Ross Macdonald's The Chill -part coming-of-age story, part thriller. Streetwise 19-year-old protagonist Mike spends his days driving for a car service and his nights attending college part-time. While trying to figure out which endeavor is more futile, he winds up on the periphery of a murder that will forever alter his destiny. Add to the mix Mike's marriage-minded neighborhood girlfriend, his borderline-wiseguy bookie dad, and a sexy and sophisticated coed temptress, and you've got all the ingredients for what may be a whole new Call it mook noir. A-"-Tom Sinclair, Entertainment Weekly "Tim McLoughlin writes about South Brooklyn with a fidelity to people and place reminiscent of James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan and George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London . Among the achievements of his swiftly paced narrative is a cast of authentic and frequently complex characters whose voices reflect dreams and love as well as desperation to survive. No voice in this symphony of a novel is more impressive than that of Mr. McLoughlin, a young writer with a rare gift for realism and empathy."-Sidney Offit, author of Memoir of the Bookie's Son New Yorks punchiest borough asserts its criminal legacy with all new stories from a magnificent set of todays best writers. Brooklyn Noir moves from Coney Island to Bedford-Stuyvesant to Bay Ridge to Red Hook to Bushwick to Sheepshead Bay to Park Slope and far deeper, into the heart of Brooklyns historical and criminal largesse, with all of its dark splendor. Each contributor presents a brand new story set in a distinct neighborhood. Brooklyn Noir mixes masters of the mystery genre with the best of New Yorks literary fiction communityand, of course, leaves room for new blood. These brilliant and chilling stories see crime striking in communities of Russians, Jamaicans, Hasidic Jews, Puerto Ricans, Italians, Irish and many other ethnicitiesin the most diverse urban location on the planet. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction PART I: OLD SCHOOL BROOKLYN "The Book Signing" PETE HAMILL (Park Slope) "Hasidic Noir" PEARL ABRAHAM (Williamsburg) "No Time for Senior's" SIDNEY OFFIT (Downtown) "When All This Was Bay Ridge" TIM MCLOUGHLIN (Sunset Park) "Practicing" ELLEN MILLER (Canarsie) PART II: NEW SCHOOL BROOKLYN "Crown Heist" ADAM MANSBACH (Crown Heist) "Hunter/Trapper" ARTHUR NERESIAN (Brooklyn Heights) "New Lots Avenue" NELSON GEORGE (Brownsville) "Scavenger Hunt" NEAL POLLACK (Coney Island) "The Code" NORMAN KELLEY (Prospect Heights) PART III: COPS & ROBBERS "Can't Catch Me" THOMAS MORRISSEY (Bay Ridge) "Case Closed" LOU MANFREDO (Bensonhurst) "Eating Italian" LUCIANO GUERRIERO (Red Hook) "Thursday" KENJI JASPER (Bed-Stuyvesant) "One More for the Road" ROBERT KNIGHTLY (Greenpoint) PART IV: BACKWATER BROOKLYN "Triple Harrison" MAGGIE ESTEP (East New York) "Fade to . . . Brooklyn" KEN BRUEN (Galway, Ireland) "Dumped" NICOLE BLACKMAN (Fort Greene) "Slipping into Darkness" C.J. SULLIVAN (Bushwick) "Ladies' Man" CHRIS NILES (Brighton Beach) Version : 5.0 New York's punchiest borough asserts its criminal legacy with all new stories from a magnificent set of today's best writers. Brooklyn Noir moves from Coney Island to Bedford-Stuyvesant to Bay Ridge to Red Hook to Bushwick to Sheepshead Bay to Park Slope and far deeper, into the heart of Brooklyn's historical and criminal largesse, with all of its dark splendor. Each contributor presents a brand new story set in a distinct neighborhood. Brooklyn Noir mixes masters of the mystery genre with the best of New York's literary fiction community-and, of course, leaves room for new blood. These brilliant and chilling stories see crime striking in communities of Russians, Jamaicans, Hasidic Jews, Puerto Ricans, Italians, Irish and many other ethnicities-in the most diverse urban location on the planet. Contributors include Pete Hamill, Nelson George, Sidney Offit, Arthur Nersesian, Pearl Abraham, Ellen Miller, Maggie Estep, Adam Mansbach, CJ Sullivan, Chris Niles, Norman Kelley, and many others. Akashic Books announces Brooklyn novelist Tim McLoughlin as the editor of the anthology (in addition to his contributing a story). McLoughlin's respect on any Brooklyn street predates the publication of his debut novel Heart of the Old Country (Akashic, 2001), a selection of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program that was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as "an inspired cross between Richard Price and Ross McDonald." For years, McLoughlin has worked in the Kings County Supreme Court in downtown Brooklyn. A novel of a young man's adventures in New York City by an author who is “part Lewis Carroll, part Franz Kafka” (Library Journal). This tale introduces us to Joey, a New York City graduate student. Brought up by emotionally—and physically—distant adoptive parents, he has no idea what his heritage really is, though he did decide to try being Jewish after being dragged into a mitzvah tank by a Hasid. Now he has worked his way through most of a graduate history program at Columbia University—but when his academic fellowship from a mysterious benefactor is suddenly rescinded, he will be led into a furious and bizarre quest—in a novel from an acclaimed author praised for his ability to blend dark, fantastic satire with genuine human feeling. “Paranoid fantasy and fantastic comedy in the service of social realism... At its best, [Manhattan Loverboy] assays the grittiest, funkiest urban-magic-realism yet, creating a satirical fiction avidly in search of the truth it's all too aware is even stranger than itself.” —Downtown “Nersesian renders Gotham's unique cocktail of wealth, poverty, crime, glamour, and brutality spectacularly... But in the end, it is Joey's search for his own identity that makes this book a winner.” —Rain Taxi Review of Books on East Village Tetralogy This Award-winning Anthology Of Original Crime Fiction Exploring Brooklyn’s Many Enclaves Features New Stories By Pete Hamill, Maggie Estep And Others. New York’s Punchiest Borough Asserts Its Criminal Legacy With This Collection Of Stories From Some Of Today’s Best Writers. Brooklyn Noir Moves From Coney Island To Bedford-stuyvesant To Bay Ridge To Red Hook To Bushwick To Sheepshead Bay To Park Slope And Far Deeper, Into The Heart Of Brooklyn’s Historical And Criminal Largesse. Each Contributor Offers A New Story Set In A Distinct Neighborhood. Many Of The Stories That First Appeared In This Volume Have Garnered Critical Acclaim, Including Pete Hamill’s Edgar Award Finalist “the Book Signing”; Ellen Miller’s Pushcart Prize Finalist “practicing”; Pearl Abraham’s Shamus Award Finalist “hasidic Noir”; Arthur Nersesian’s Anthony Award Finalist “hunter/trapper”; And Thomas Morrissey’s Robert L. Fish Memorial Award-winner “can’t Catch Me”. Brooklyn Noir Also Features Brand-new Stories By Nelson George, Sidney Offit, Neal Pollack, Ken Bruen, Maggie Estep, Kenji Jasper, Adam Mansbach, C.j. Sullivan, Chris Niles, Norman Kelley, Nicole Blackman, Tim Mcloughlin, Lou Manfredo, Luciano Guerriero, And Robert Knightley.

Overly suspicious second novel from Arthur Nersesian, author of The Fuck-Up.

Library Journal

It's bad enough that when Mr. and Mrs. Ngm adopt Joey they tell him that he has no heritage and is only a substitute for the child they couldn't have, but losing an unsolicited graduate fellowship at Columbia a semester before graduation sends him over the edge. Joey's confrontation with Whitlock, the man responsible for yanking his fellowship, leads to a series of events, from a new job to infatuation with Amy, who mysteriously asks to share his apartment, to his finally learning something about his real relationship with Whitlock. Part Lewis Carroll, part Franz Kafka, Nersesian (The Fuck-Up) leads us down a maze of false leads and dead ends, while Joey pursues Amy, battles Whitlock, and investigates his heritage. Joey's dilemmas are told with wit and compassion, drawing the reader into a world of paranoia and coincidence while illuminating questions of free will and destiny. Highly recommended.--Joshua Cohen, Mid-Hudson Lib. Syst., Poughkeepsie, NY Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

"The Big Mango jumps from New York City to the tropical island-nation of Misericordia, a volcano of pent-up human suffering and rage. A popular uprising led by Father Pierre-Pierre Bernard, a parish priest, provides the island's indigent multitude with a rare moment of freedom and self-rule. But Bernard proves singularly ill-equipped to lead the country as president and is deposed to exile in the U.S. by a right-wing military coup.". "Enter Nina Halligan, the headstrong, street-savy-but-sophisticated private investigator. A former prosecutor, Nina has a sixth sense for scandal and corruption, as well as a troubled history of dragging the people she loves into danger. Goaded into travelling to Washington to help Father Bernard regain his government, Nina's attention turns to the murder of her friend's husband, Michael Debord, an insider in the administration of U.S. President Jeff Benton. Nina's investigation becomes personal as she and her friend Anna head to Misericordia to find Michael's killer, arriving in "the land of mercy" as it is about to explode."--BOOK JACKET. Brand new crime fiction stories from: Pete Hamill, Sidney Offit, Arthur Nersesian, Pearl Abraham, Ellen Miller, Maggie Estep, Adam Mansbach, CJ Sullivan, Chris Niles, Norman Kelley, Nicole Blackman, and others. New York's punchiest borough asserts its criminal legacy with all new stories from a magnificent set of today's best writers. Brooklyn Noir moves from Coney Island to Bedford-Stuyvesant to Bay Ridge to Red Hook to Bushwick to Sheepshead Bay to Park Slope and far deeper, into the heart of Brooklyn's historical and criminal largesse, with all of its dark splendor. Each contributor presents a brand new story set in a distinct neighborhood. Brooklyn Noir mixes masters of genre with the best of New York's literary fiction community?and, of course, leaving room for new blood. These brilliant and chilling stories see crime striking in communities of Russians, Jamaicans, Puerto Ricans, Italians, Irish, and many other ethnicities?in the most diverse urban location on the planet Masters Of The Mystery Genre And The Best Of New York's Literary Fiction Community Come Together In An Anthology Of Stories, Each Set In A Distinct Neighborhood Of Brooklyn. The Book Signing / Pete Hamill -- Hasidic Noir / Pearl Abraham -- No Time For Senior's / Sidney Offit -- When All This Was Bay Ridge / Tim Mcloughin -- Practicing / Ellen Miller -- Crown Heist / Adam Mansbach -- Hunter/trapper / Arthur Nersesian -- New Lots Avenue / Nelson George -- Scavenger Hunt / Neal Pollack -- The Code / Norman Kelley -- Can't Catch Me / Thomas Morrissey -- Case Closed / Lou Manfredo -- Eating Italian / Luciano Guerriero -- Thursday / Kenji Jasper -- One More For The Road / Robert Knightly -- Triple Harrison / Maggie Estep -- Fade To-- Brooklyn / Ken Bruen -- Dumped / Nicole Blackman -- Slipping Into Darkness / C.j. Sullivan -- Ladies' Man / Chris Niles. Edited By Tim Mcloughlin. Brand-new stories by: Pete Hamill, Sidney Offit, Arthur Nersesian, Pearl Abraham, Ellen Miller, Maggie Estep, Adam Mansbach, Chris Niles, Norman Kelley, Nicole Blackman, and others.Brooklyn Noir moves from Coney Island to Bedford-Stuyvesant to Bay Ridge to Red Hook to Bushwick to Sheepshead Bay to Park Slope and far deeper, into the heart of Brooklyn's historical and criminal largesse, with all of its dark splendor. Each contributor presents a brand-new story set in a distinct neighborhood.This award-winning anthology mixes masters of genre with the best of New York's literary fiction community—and, of course, leaving room for new blood. These brilliant and chilling stories see crime striking in communities of Russians, Jamaicans, Puerto Ricans, Italians, Irish, and many other ethnicities—in one of the most diverse urban locations on the planet.

"Want a scathing social and political satire? Look no further than Norman Kelley’s second effort featuring ‘bad girl’ African-American PI and part-time intellectual Nina Halligan—it’s a romp of a read . . ."—Publishers Weekly (starred review of The Big Mango, the previous Nina Halligan Mystery)

A hit on a notorious hip-hop star plunges Nina into the vortex of a violent power struggle to control a valuable commodity in the recording industry, namely black music.

Norman Kelley is the author of the Nina Halligan mystery series—Black Heat (Amistad/HarperCollins) and The Big Mango (Akashic)—and the -editor of R&B (Rhythm and Business): The Political Economy of Black Music (Akashic).

"Cool, snarly, and hilarious, Hells Kitchen turns Manhattan over like a rock and lets its phonies, wannabies, conmen, and killers come crawling out. Vicious, funny stuff." Andrew Klavan, author of Hunting Down Amanda Cyrus is a millionaire recluse. Oh, and a serial killer who preys upon apartment hunters in New York City. Armstead Maupin meets Carl Hiaasen in a brilliant black comedy that traces the paths of disparate characters floating through New York, about to collide in a treacherous story that will make you think twice about ever answering a classified ad. Chris Niles was born in New Zealand, and currently resides in New York. She is the author of a series of mysteries featuring radio reporter Sam Spike It, Run Time and Crossing Live . Blood Sugar is a disturbing and evocative collection of new work and selected poems previously featured in Blackman’s enormously popular chapbooks Pretty, Sweet, and Nice. Her work has appeared in five major anthologies including Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Verses That Hurt, and Poetry Nation. Blackman has performed on over twenty recordings, including collaborations with Golden Palominos, Recoil, KMFDM, and Scanner. She has also performed internationally and on NPR, MTV Radio, Spin Radio, and been featured on Salon.com. It is futile to resist her brutal accounts of obsession and beauty. So give in. Fiction. African American Studies. Picking up where BLACK HEAT, the first installment of the Nina Halligan trilogy -- also available from SPD -- left off, THE BIG MANGO takes the reader to the tropical island-nation of Misericordia. This action mystery novel follows Nina Halligan, Private Investigator, as she deals with popular uprisings, corporate mercenaries, political subversives and a bloody and costly effort to return the island to its people. Norman Kelley is a freelance journalist, author and producer at WBAI (Pacifica Radio) in New York.

cyrus Is A Millionaire Recluse. Oh, And A Serial Killer Who Preys Upon Apartment Hunters In New York City. Armstead Maupin Meets Carl Hiaasen In A Brilliant Black Comedy That Traces The Paths Of Disparate Characters Floating Through New York, About To Collide In A Treacherous Story That Will Make You Think Twice About Ever Answering A Classified Ad.

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"Heart of the Old Country is an exciting and darkly humorous novel that takes a guided tour of the ethnic enclaves of South Brooklyn. Not the Brooklyn of Spike Lee or Matty Rich, but a counterpoint, where the hangers-on, those left behind in the white flight to the suburbs, continue to "do business" while defending their shrinking borders."--BOOK JACKET. Uncertain whether he should go to college, marry his high school girlfriend, or join the mob in his South Brooklyn home, Mike works for a local car service, until the murder of an old friend forces him to make a decision Joining forces with her husband, a musician and music journalist, to find out who is behind the current rise in hip-hop artist murders, Nina Halligan delves into the music world where nothing is what it seems