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New Orleans Noir Akashic Noir Julie Smith Ace Atkins Laura Lippman Patty Friedmann Barbara Hambly Tim McLoughlin Olympia Vernon David Fulmer Jervey Tervalon James Nolan Kalamu ya Salaam Maureen Tan Thomas Adcock Jeri Cain Rossi Christine Wiltz Greg Herren Eric Overmyer Ted O'Brien 9781933354248 Books

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New Orleans Noir Akashic Noir Julie Smith Ace Atkins Laura Lippman Patty Friedmann Barbara Hambly Tim McLoughlin Olympia Vernon David Fulmer Jervey Tervalon James Nolan Kalamu ya Salaam Maureen Tan Thomas Adcock Jeri Cain Rossi Christine Wiltz Greg Herren Eric Overmyer Ted O'Brien 9781933354248 Books

I love noir storytelling. Yet I don't agree with Otto Penzler, who says this of noir characters:

"[They] may not die, but they probably should, as the life that awaits them is certain to be so ugly, so lost and lonely, that they'd be better off just curling up and getting it over with. And, let's face it, they deserve it."

That from his incendiary HuffPo article "Noir Fiction is About Losers, Not Private Eyes"

My disagreement with Penzler seems shared by a number of the authors whose stories stand tall amidst the ruins of New Orleans, whether Pre- or Post-K. Don't take that to mean there are stories with happy endings in this book, though. In fact, don't read this book if you want happy endings. Barring one story (Loot, by editor, Julie Smith) I don't recall a single ending that left me daring to smile. But if you want to see a people hit rock bottom in any number of ways, and in some cases still stand up and look the sky in the face and dare it to rain on them again, then this is the book for you.

Stories in New Orleans Noir run the gamut from the personal to the political and back again, showing the city's starkest divisions across race, religion, income, and the wherewithal to simply get up and keep fighting or fall down on your tail and give up the ghost. Stand out favorites are Smith's "Loot;" Greg Herren's "Annunciation Shotgun" (haunting in how it leads the reader down a primrose path to hell); and Patty Friedmann's "Two-Story Brick Houses" (which should be read with caution, preferably with a shoulder to cry on afterwards, or perhaps a bottle of scotch, or maybe a pillow to punch. A lot. Until the feathers come flying out.)

The stories are all good ones, though. Not a single missed mark anywhere in the book, and this is just my second [City Name] Noir title that I've read from Akashic Books. Their collection is sizable, and I know I'll be reading more from them. Word around the Bywater is they've got New Orleans Noir Volume 2 in the works.


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New Orleans Noir Akashic Noir Julie Smith Ace Atkins Laura Lippman Patty Friedmann Barbara Hambly Tim McLoughlin Olympia Vernon David Fulmer Jervey Tervalon James Nolan Kalamu ya Salaam Maureen Tan Thomas Adcock Jeri Cain Rossi Christine Wiltz Greg Herren Eric Overmyer Ted O'Brien 9781933354248 Books Reviews

What makes this book great is that it is not the same old, same old Katrina stories. It is a wonderful mix of different authors and stories that truly shows the flavor of New Orleans, which is often bittersweet.
GREAT
But, I found the stories to be rather uneven. That is,of course, the fear when one reads a book that features short stories from eighteen different authors. The book is divided into two sections. Prior and after Katrina. I very much enjoyed David Fullmer's Algiers, based in 1905, about a gambling cheater,guitar player and hustler who met his fate at the hands of Creole detective and strongman Valentin St. Cyr. All I Could Do Was Cry by Kalamu Ya Salaam was a superb story concerning the very sympathetic characters of Rita, who had survived a very hard childhood, and her hard working trusting husband Tyronne. Her son was shot and she achieved revenge. Muddy Pond by Maureen Tan told the post Katrina survival and heroism of Vietnamese immigrant Sonny Vien as he dispatched several looters. Loot by Julie Smith was another excellent post Katrina story. Telling of trust
betweeen Mathilde's long relationship with her maid Cherice. And how Cherice and her husband Charles managed to survive. Scared Rabbit by Tim McLoughlin was fine. Based upon a joke where a deer was frightened into saying he was a rabbit after being beaten by police. To me, those were the highlights.
This was the first (but certainly won't be the last) of my reads in the Noir series. I picked this up as a Louisiana native and lover of New Orleans and have to admit I was extremely pleased. Really enjoy the way the book was split "Before the Levees Broke" and "Living in Atlantis".

Great read for anyone who has never been to New Orleans and especially for those of us who "know what it means to miss New Orleans"...
the writing was excellent. i was so happy to have chosen this book. it made me want to look for other offerings from those same authors. i am an aficionada of short stories and read almost strictly mysteries, so this was exactly what i wanted.
Even if you are not familiar with New Orleans, you will get the feeling of the oddities of the city that make it such a unique place. If you have ever lived there or visited there often the stories will be even more meaningful. The contrast between pre-Katrina and post-Katrina stories makes this collection even more interesting.
It is fitting the great Julie Smith was chosen as editor and post-Katrina story contributor for this terrific (terrifying?) anthology. She also should have been asked to add to "San Francisco Noir" because as in New Orleans, she spent many years there as an ace newspaper reporter and set one of her mystery serieses there. Her story "Loot" is this book is really good, about the long-time friendship between a civil rights lawyer and her maid who is stranded Uptown after the storm, and the vicious little plot dig at the end. Ditto to Outside Magazine writer Ace Atkins, who was boots-on-the ground on assignment here in the sweltering days after Katrina's eye passed, in his gritty "Angola South" about the inhuman jail set up at the Greyhound bus station. Maureen Tan's "Muddy Pond" indelibly depicts the plight of Vietnamese-Americans stuck in flooded N.O. East right after the storm. There is not a less than great story in this 18-story anthology (well maybe one of the pre-K's). This is one of the better books of the half dozen I have read in creator Tim McLoughlin's very fine (Akashic) Noir series -- the other one is D.C. Noir edited and with a story by the great George Pelecanos. Neither should be missed!
I love noir storytelling. Yet I don't agree with Otto Penzler, who says this of noir characters

"[They] may not die, but they probably should, as the life that awaits them is certain to be so ugly, so lost and lonely, that they'd be better off just curling up and getting it over with. And, let's face it, they deserve it."

That from his incendiary HuffPo article "Noir Fiction is About Losers, Not Private Eyes"

My disagreement with Penzler seems shared by a number of the authors whose stories stand tall amidst the ruins of New Orleans, whether Pre- or Post-K. Don't take that to mean there are stories with happy endings in this book, though. In fact, don't read this book if you want happy endings. Barring one story (Loot, by editor, Julie Smith) I don't recall a single ending that left me daring to smile. But if you want to see a people hit rock bottom in any number of ways, and in some cases still stand up and look the sky in the face and dare it to rain on them again, then this is the book for you.

Stories in New Orleans Noir run the gamut from the personal to the political and back again, showing the city's starkest divisions across race, religion, income, and the wherewithal to simply get up and keep fighting or fall down on your tail and give up the ghost. Stand out favorites are Smith's "Loot;" Greg Herren's "Annunciation Shotgun" (haunting in how it leads the reader down a primrose path to hell); and Patty Friedmann's "Two-Story Brick Houses" (which should be read with caution, preferably with a shoulder to cry on afterwards, or perhaps a bottle of scotch, or maybe a pillow to punch. A lot. Until the feathers come flying out.)

The stories are all good ones, though. Not a single missed mark anywhere in the book, and this is just my second [City Name] Noir title that I've read from Akashic Books. Their collection is sizable, and I know I'll be reading more from them. Word around the Bywater is they've got New Orleans Noir Volume 2 in the works.