Chicago Noir by Joe Meno

Chicago Noir by Joe Meno

Nelson Algren, Richard Wright and Patricia Highsmith are just three of the iconic authors included in this outstanding volume, which reprints classic noir stories from writers with a Chicago connection. Although Los Angeles may be considered the most quintessentially 'noir' American city, this volume reveals that pound-for-pound, Chicago has historically been able to stand up to any other metropolis in the noir arena. Classic reprints from: Harry Stephen Keeler, Sherwood Anderson, Max Allan Collins, Richard Wright, Nelson Algren and many more.

Joe Meno is a fiction writer and playwright who lives in Chicago. He is a winner of the Nelson Algren Literary Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Great Lakes Book Award, and was a finalist for the Story Prize. He is the author of five novels and two short story collections including The Great Perhaps, The Boy Detective Fails, Demons in the Spring, and Hairstyles of the Damned. His short fiction has been published in One Story, McSweeney's, Swink, LIT, TriQuarterly, Other Voices, Gulf Coast, and broadcast on NPR. His nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times and Chicago Magazine. His stage plays have been produced in Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Charville, France. He is an associate professor in the Fiction Writing Department at Columbia College Chicago.

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ISBN 13	9781617752940
ISBN 10	1617752940
Title	Chicago Noir
Author	Joe Meno
Series	Akashic Noir Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Akashic Books,U.S.
Year published	2015-10-22
Number of pages	256
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