The New Black: A Neo-Noir Anthology
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The New Black is a collection of twenty neo-noir stories exemplifying the best authors currently writing in this dark sub-genre. A mixture of horror, crime, fantasy, science fiction, magical realism, and the grotesqueall with a literary bentthese stories are the future of genre-bending fiction.
Table of Contents:
Foreword by Laird Barron
Stephen Graham Jones, "Father Son, Holy Rabbit"
Paul Tremblay, "It's Against the Law to Feed the Ducks"
Lindsay Hunter, "That Baby"
Roxane Gay, "How"
Kyle Minor, "The Truth and All Its Ugly"
Craig Clevenger, "Act of Contrition"
Micaela Morrissette, "The Familiars"
Richard Lange, "Fuzzyland"
Benjamin Percy, "Dial Tone"
Roy Kesey, "Instituto"
Craig Davidson, "Rust and Bone"
Rebecca Jones-Howe, "Blue Hawaii"
Joe Meno, "Children Are the Only Ones Who Blush"
Vanessa Veselka, "Christopher Hitchens"
Nik Korpon, "His Footsteps are Made of Soot"
Brian Evenson, "Windeye"
Craig Wallwork, "Dollhouse"
Tara Laskowski, "The Etiquette of Homicide"
Matt Bell, "Dredge"
Antonia Crane, "Sunshine for Adrienne"
Brian Evenson
Called "one of the world's foremost authors of books about programming" by International Developer magazine, best-selling author Brian Evenson has written about programming for over three decades. His books have sold millions of copies worldwide and have been widely translated. Brian is interested in all facets of computing, but his primary focus is computer languages. He is the author of numerous books on Java, C, C++, Python etc. Brian holds BA and MCS degrees from the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign.
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Reviews for The New Black
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Many anthologies are like cheap buffets filled with all kinds of stuff that doesn’t fit well together and doesn’t seem to fit well inside your stomach either, leaving you a gurgling, dissatisfied mess. This collection is not like that. Collected together here are twenty stories that fit together like puzzle pieces. They belong together. And, it is a gourmet menu with everything on it meriting the highly-regarded five- star rating. Let’s put it more succinctly: Everything in this collection is so damn good, it’ll blow your socks off.
I am not sure anyone has managed to properly define neo noir. Maybe its ancient roots can be found in Poe and Chandler and Jim Thompson. However, it seems to also trace its genesis from Sturgeon and Harlan Ellison and the world of speculative fiction. But what’s important is that this pieces all fit together because they are of uniformly high literary quality, there is a sense of poetry and majesty in all of them, and there is something strangely offbeat about them.
This collection includes stories about babies so different that no one wants to be near them, not even their parents. It has stories about picnics on the beach and never-ending vacations. There are stories about methadone addiction and emotional distance. There are also stories about imaginary playmates and telemarketers and about twin sisters struggling through the pain of living and a boxer in a tale that takes you through the agony of each punch. There is a strangeness, an abnormality, an uncomfortableness, about every one of these stories and perhaps that is what makes them so damn good.3 people found this helpful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I bought this book because I met Mr. Thomas at a conference. So it is not a typical book for me. However, the stories were memorable and the writing top notch. The stories worked together to create a great tone. I was simply impressed by all the authors. They drew me into each story and had vivid imagery.