New Jersey Noir
New York : Akashic Books, [2011]
Format: Ebook
Description: 1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations, map.
Sitting between the great cities of New York and Philadelphia, New Jersey has been by tradition a heavily "organized" Mafia state, as it was at one time a northern outpost of the Ku Klux Klan, with a concentration of members in Trenton, Camden, Monmouth County, and South Jersey . . . In such ways, the most civilized and "decent" among us find that we are complicit with the most brutal murderers. We enter into literally unspeakable alliances--of which we dare not speak except through the obliquities and indirections of fiction, poetry, and visual art of the sort gathered here in New Jersey Noir.
Series: Akashic noir series.
Contents:
Part I, Inner-city New Jersey: Live for today / S.A. Solomon ; Soul anatomy / Lou Manfredo ; New day Newark / S.J. Rozan ; Newark black: 1940-1954 / C.K. Williams -- Part II, Romance & nostalgia: Lola / Jonathan Santlofer ; The enigma of Grover's Mill / Bradford Morrow ; Broken glass / Gerald Stern ; Wunderlich / Sheila Kohler ; Atlantis / Richard Burgin ; August: feeding frenzy / Alicia Ostriker ; Part III, Commerce & retribution: A bag for Nicholas / Hirsh Sawhney ; Glass eels / Jeffrey Ford ; Meadowlands spike / Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini ; Kettle run / Robert Arellano ; Noir, NJ / Paul Muldoon -- Part IV, Garden State underground: Too near real / Jonathan Safran Foer ; Excavation / Edmund White & Michael Carroll ; Long branch underground / Robert Pinsky ; Run kiss daddy / Joyce Carol Oates.
Subjects:
Noir fiction, American.
FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled.
New Jersey -- Fiction.
Noir fiction, American.
FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled.
New Jersey -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781617750816
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