New Orleans Noir by Julie Smith

New Orleans Noir by Julie Smith

New Orleans' tremendous literary tradition shines bright in this outstanding collection of stories from some of the best writers in American history. Julie Smith has masterfully curated this volume with stories published as early as 1843 and as recently as 2012. Classic reprints from: James Lee Burke, Armand Lanusse, Grace King, Kate Chopin, O. Henry, Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams, Shirley Ann Grau, John William Corrington, Tom Dent, Ellen Gilchrist, Valerie Martin, O'Neil De Noux, John Biguenet, Poppy Z. Brite, Nevada Barr, Ace Atkins and Maurice Carlos Ruffin.

Julie Smith is a former journalist who started her career at the New Orleans Times-Picayune before moving on to the San Francisco Chronicle, where she spent fifteen years soaking up gritty realism and (hopefully) street smarts in preparation for a life of crime. That is, crime writing. She's the author of 20 adult mysteries with three female detectives and one misunderstood man: a cop (Officer Skip Langdon, NOPD), a private eye (Talba Wallis, poet and computer prodigy, also of New Orleans), a semi-amateur detective (Rebecca Schwartz, San Francisco lawyer), and a full amateur (Paul McDonald, crime writer, also of San Francisco). New Orleans Mourning, the first novel in the Skip Langdon series, won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel. It's the Cursebusters!

She met a young male editor while writing it, and he gave her the remark she believes best captures the spirit of the book and her personal perspective as a YA author. It's this: In YA, there's way too much emphasis on girls getting the man (or the girlthis is Bold Strokes territory!) and far too little emphasis on girls kicking ass. Smith is a great believer in the significance of girls kicking asses, an opportunity they rarely get in real life, thus any opportunity in fiction must be seized.

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ISBN 13	9781617753848
ISBN 10	161775384X
Title	New Orleans Noir
Author	Julie Smith
Series	Akashic Noir Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Akashic Books,U.S.
Year published	2016-04-21
Number of pages	320
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.