San Francisco Noir
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San Francisco Noir lashes out with hard-biting, all-original tales exploring the shadowy nether regions of scenic "Baghdad by the Bay." Virtuosos of the genre meet up with the best of S.F.'s literary fiction community to chart a unique psycho-geography for a dark landscape.
From inner city boroughs to the outlands, each contributor offers an original story based in a distinct neighborhood. At times brutal, darkly humorous, and revelatory--the stories speak of a hidden San Francisco, a town where the fog is but a prelude to darker realities lingering beneath.
The protagonists of noir fiction have their own agendas, but for readers much of the pleasure is unraveling the mystery and deciphering the clues that constitute a city, and if there is a love story in noir writing it’s the passion of writers, readers, and protagonists for the gritty geographical details. As the bodies drop in the strong stories here, steep, fog-wrapped, fratricidal San Francisco comes alive: here are old neighborhoods, bars, bookstores, the famous and then forgotten landlord arson at 16th and Valencia, buried streams, streetcars, parks, a lost city and the new city haunting almost every page of this gorgeous anthology of San Francisco noir.” Rebecca Solnit
I was wondering about the city’s shadowside that the guides didn’t show. These top writers are of the As bad as it gets’ brand, and then worse. If you like puke, fear & loathing caused by stray bullets, happenstance getting the hero who is an anti-hero really, a male corpse rotting in the bathtub while the woman poops in the garden, the Reverend Christmas shot in the ear by the PO-lice, then this is your good read for a murky, maybe even gritty, weekend.” Janwillem van de Wetering
San Francisco has long been a city of back alleys and black figures; this is its romantic map.” Michael Ray, Editor, Zoetrope All-Story
Robert Mailer Anderson
Robert Mailer Anderson is a writer, producer, activist, and 9th generation Californio. He is also the author of the novel "Boonville," co-writer/producer of the films "Windows on the World" and "Pig Hunt," the play "The Death of Teddy Ballgame," and has been a contributor to The Anderson Valley Advertiser for 40 years, among other publications. He is a board member of PEN Oakland, the advisory board of Los Cenzontles, and was appointed by Governor Newsom to the California Humanities Board in 2020. As a music producer, he has been nominated for three Grammy Awards and won two NAACP Image Awards. He was the 2013 Colonial Standard Bearer for the Selkirk Common Ride and received the San Francisco Arts Medallion in 2016.
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