By Peter Maravelis (ed.)
Fresh tales by way of: Domenic Stansberry, Barry Gifford, Eddie Muller, Robert Mailer Anderson, Michelle Tea, Peter Plate, Kate Braverman, David Corbett, Alejandro Murguía, Sin Soracco, Alvin Lu, Jon Longhi, Will Christopher Baer, Jim Nesbit, and David Henry Sterry.San Francisco Noir lashes out with hard-biting, all-original stories exploring the shadowy nether areas of scenic "Baghdad by means of the Bay." Virtuosos of the style catch up with the simplest of S.F.'s literary fiction group to chart a distinct psycho-geography for a gloomy landscape.From internal urban boroughs to the outlands, every one contributor deals an unique tale dependent in a unique local. from time to time brutal, darkly funny, and revelatory--the tales converse of a hidden San Francisco, a city the place the fog is yet a prelude to darker realities lingering beneath.“The protagonists of noir fiction have their very own agendas, yet for readers a lot of the excitement is unraveling the secret and decoding the clues that represent a urban, and if there's a love tale in noir writing it’s the fervour of writers, readers, and protagonists for the gritty geographical information. because the our bodies drop within the powerful tales right here, steep, fog-wrapped, fratricidal San Francisco comes alive: listed below are outdated neighborhoods, bars, bookstores, the well-known after which forgotten landlord arson at sixteenth and Valencia, buried streams, streetcars, parks, a misplaced urban and the recent urban haunting nearly each web page of this beautiful anthology of San Francisco noir.” —Rebecca Solnit“I was once considering concerning the city’s shadowside that the courses didn’t express. those best writers are of the ‘As undesirable because it will get’ model, after which worse. in the event you like puke, worry & loathing as a result of stray bullets, happenstance getting the hero who's an anti-hero rather, a male corpse rotting within the tub whereas the lady poops within the backyard, the Reverend Christmas shot within the ear by means of the PO-lice, then this can be your strong learn for a murky, even perhaps gritty, weekend.” —Janwillem van de Wetering“San Francisco has lengthy been a urban of again alleys and black figures; this is often its romantic map.” —Michael Ray, Editor, Zoetrope All-Story
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Sex-crazed bag-men, framed public officials, disillusioned prostitutes, psychotic kidnapping victims, and desperate ex-cons inhabit a realm where actions are governed by an algebra of desire. Beauty and treachery walk hand in hand. Welcome to a peninsula of broken dreams, shattered lives, and deadly liaisons. These are depictions of San Francisco the local visitors’ bureau hopes will recede along with our fading memories. Meanwhile, the man with the violin continues to play his tune. We hope you’ll enjoy the fare.
Nothing would change, she realized. She’d be used. These two revolting people would get what they wanted then toss her aside. She was a tool. She was, again, baggage. Raymont had brought a gun in case Robert had to be dealt with. Corella crept up behind him, reached inside his coat pocket. Raymont tried to catch her by the arm, missed. ” Corella gripped the weapon with both hands, waving it back and forth, at Raymont, at Lorene, at Raymont. She was crying. Raymont held out his hand. ” Corella fired.
An eroding coastline offers even the staunchest of non-Buddhists a sobering meditation upon impermanence. These perilous conditions punctuate life on the edge of a continent. The divine travels on a collision course with the dangerous. The city has also been shaped by dreams. Since its birth in the 1700s, immigrants have flocked to San Francisco in the hope of reinventing their lives. From the Gold Rush of the 1840s to the dot-com madness of the late twentieth century, the city has experienced successive waves of newcomers that have radically altered its profile.