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Sep 15, 2010

Gianrico Carofiglio: A Very Foreign Country

The Past is a Foreign Country by Gianrico Carofiglio is a chilling depiction of a good kid’s descent into hell. Giorgio, law student, loyal boyfriend, and responsible son, is knocked off the pilings of his structured life by a chance encounter with…

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Nov 27, 2009

Angles and Angels of Misery

Chris Tusa’s Dirty Little Angels is a vicious but genuine rendering of a family steeped in misery and disconnected from reality. Does the mother really think her daughter is just vying for attention when she swallows too many pills? Does the father really think he can save the…

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Nov 16, 2009

The Evil Men Do

Summer Brenner’s I-5 is a grim and gripping noir novel about the sex slave trade: its victims, its perpetrators, and its ability to flourish in the shadowy outcrops of civilized life. Under the guise of business, Anya and other girls from Eastern Europe are plucked from the streets and brought to…

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Oct 15, 2009

Massimo and Marco’s Murderous Miasma

Poisonville is a marvelous collaboration between two of Italy’s modern thrill-makers, author Massimo Carlotto and screenwriter Marco Videtta. I can just imagine the torturous bouts of fun and pain these two went through in writing this novel, urging each other on…

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Oct 8, 2009

Noir from Akashic Books: Willing to Travel the Globe

What is so interesting and compelling about the noir genre, when it is well-executed, is the paradox — and essential truth — that it portrays: that even in the darkest of human endeavors, there is a belief, false or not, that good is…

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Aug 20, 2009

Delhi Noir

Akashic Books’ Noir series is a doubly-generous gift to the reading world: first, the collections are stunning compendiums of geographically-specific writers, many of whom will be new (and wonderful) discoveries for readers; second, noir is a fantastic genre offering psychological, sociological, and…

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Jul 13, 2009

Ed McBain: Darkness on the Edge of Town

Ed McBain was a prolific crime writer, as well as a novelist of harsh realism (The Blackboard Jungle) and screenwriter (he wrote the screenplay for The Birds, adapted from a short story by Daphne du Maurier).

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Jun 27, 2009

Hint: Dead Horse

Yesterday I read another Noir, without intending to, and I loved it. I am definitely developing a taste for non-gruesome Noir. I should have gotten a clue from the title, Dead Horse, but when I delved in and read the three obituaries that begin the novel, I was enlightened. Walter Satterthwait…

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Jun 26, 2009

Rome in the Dark

Rome Noir is another really wonderful collection of truly Noir stories put out by Akashic books. Akashic Books has published over twenty-seven Noir collections, including their latest, just released this week, entitled Delhi Noir, with more more upcoming. Visit their enticing site at…

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Jun 12, 2009

Cesar Aira: No Ice Cream Innocence

Yesterday I read How I Became A Nun written by Cesar Aira, the prolific writer from Argentina ( thirty plus books published). He is wildly alive and incredibly evocative with his language and follows his own logic in sequencing the story through periods of delirium and…