REENA ANDREA MANICKCHAND is a twenty-six-year-old native of Trinidad and Tobago who has enjoyed creative writing since she was eight. Besides short stories, her work also includes socio-dramas. Her writing has moved from dark and negative to sweet and positive. After being baptized into theater, she began producing works that explore how to appropriately resolve these extremes. She credits her countrypeeps and close ones for her inspiration.
SHANI MOOTOO was born in Ireland and grew up in Trinidad. She is the author of a collection of short stories, Out on Main Street (1993), a book of poetry, The Predicament of Or (2001), and two novels, Cereus Blooms at Night (1996)—long-listed for the Booker Prize, short-listed for the 1997 Giller Prize, and a finalist for the British Columbia Book Prize—and He Drown She in the Sea (2005), which was long-listed for the 2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She lives in Canada.
ELIZABETH NUNEZ is a CUNY Distinguished Professor and author of six novels, including Beyond the Limbo Silence (1999), winner of the Independent Publisher’s Award, and Bruised Hibiscus (2000), winner of the American Book Award. Prospero’s Daughter (2006) was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Nunez is coeditor of the anthology Stories from Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad (2006) and executive producer of the television series Black Writers in America.
LAWRENCE SCOTT was the 1999 winner of a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Novel (Canada and Caribbean) for Aelred’s Sin (1998). He is the author of Witchbroom (1992), Ballad for the New World (1994), and Night Calypso (2004). His stories have been anthologized in The Penguin Book of Caribbean Short Stories and The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories. His stories have also been read on the BBC. For more information visit www.lawrencescott.co.uk.
JUDITH THEODORE was born and grew up in Woodbrook, Port-of-Spain. One of her short stories was short-listed for a local Newsday competition, and she was selected to participate in the Cropper Foundation 2005 Caribbean Residential Writing Workshop in Tobago. She recently completed the Playwrights’ Workshop 2007 conducted by Tony Hall. She is also a member of the Trinidad and Tobago Art Society and works in various media, but has a preference for oils and pastels.
TIPHANIE YANIQUE won a Boston Review Fiction Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship in creative writing, and a Pushcart Prize. She holds an MFA from the University of Houston. Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry can be found in various publications including Transition, Callaloo, and the London Magazine. She is a professor of creative writing and Caribbean literature at Drew University, and currently is the review editor of Calabash and a fellow with Teachers & Writers Collaborative.
Also available from the Akashic Books Noir Series
HAVANA NOIR
edited by Achy Obejas
360 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
Brand new stories by: Leonardo Padura, Pablo Medina, Carolina García-Aguilera, Ena Lucía Portela, Miguel Mejides, Arnaldo Correa, Alex Abella, Moisés Asís, Lea Aschkenas, and others.
“A remarkable collection . . . Throughout these 18 stories, current and former residents of Havana—some well-known, some previously undiscovered—deliver gritty tales of depravation, depravity, heroic perseverance, revolution, and longing in a city mythical and widely misunderstood.” —Miami Herald
BROOKLYN NOIR
edited by Tim McLoughlin
350 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
*WINNER OF SHAMUS AWARD, ANTHONY AWARD, ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD; FINALIST FOR EDGAR AWARD, PUSHCART PRIZE
Brand new stories by: Pete Hamill, Robert Knightly, Arthur Nersesian, Maggie Estep, Nelson George, Sidney Offit, Ken Bruen, and others.
“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, Agatha, and Shamus awards
TORONTO NOIR
edited by Janine Armin & Nathaniel G. Moore
272 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
Brand new stories by: Gail Bowen, Peter Robinson, Kim Moritsugu, Michael Redhill, Andrew Pyper, George Elliott Clarke, and others.
“Akashic’s city-noir series descends upon Toronto . . . Top-shelf contributors like Michael Redhill, Andrew Pyper and fourteen others get inside of Toronto’s self-loathing psychogeography for a detour to the dark side. Such attitudes among our citizenry might not make for livability or relaxed subway rides, but they are the grist for great fiction.”
—Eye Weekly
LOS ANGELES NOIR
edited by Denise Hamilton
360 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
*A LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST SELLER; EDGAR AWARD FINALIST
Brand new stories by: Michael Connelly, Janet Fitch, Susan Straight, Héctor Tobar, Patt Morrison, Robert Ferrigno, Neal Pollack, Gary Phillips, Christopher Rice, Naomi Hirahara, Jim Pascoe, and others.
“Akashic is making an argument about the universality of noir; it’s sort of flattering, really, and Los Angeles Noir, arriving at last, is a kaleidoscopic collection filled with the ethos of noir pioneers Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain.”
—Los Angeles Times Book Review
NEW ORLEANS NOIR
edited by Julie Smith
298 pages, trade paperback original, $14.95
Brand new stories by: Ace Atkins, Laura Lippman, Patty Friedmann, Barbara Hambly, Tim McLoughlin, Olympia Vernon, Kalamu ya Salaam, Thomas Adcock, Christine Wiltz, Greg Herren, and others.
“The excellent twelfth entry in Akashic’s noir series illustrates the diversity of the chosen locale with eighteen previously unpublished short stories from authors both well known and emerging.”
—Publishers Weekly
LONDON NOIR
edited by Cathi Unsworth
280 pages, trade paperback original, $14.95
Brand new stories by: Patrick McCabe, Ken Bruen, Barry Adamson, Joolz Denby, Stewart Home, Sylvie Simmons, Desmond Barry, and others.
“While few of the names will be familiar to American readers . . . there are pleasures to be found [in London Noir], especially for those into the contemporary London music scene.”
—Publishers Weekly
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