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Berkeley brings its own unique blend of Bay Area noir, complementing the grit and grime that preceded it in San Francisco Noir and Oakland Noir .
List of contents
IntroductionPart I: From the People's Republic"Hill House" by Lexi Pandell (Berkeley Hills)
"The Tangy Brine of Dark Night" by Lucy Jane Bledsoe (Berkeley Marina)
"Twin Flames" by Mara Faye Lethem (Southside)
"'Lucky Day'" by Thomas Burchfield (Berkeley Public Library)
"Barroom Butterfly" by Barry Gifford (Central Berkeley)
Part II: Directly Across from the Golden Gate"Eat Your Pheasant, Drink Your Wine" by Shanthi Sekaran (Kensington)
"Every Man and Every Woman Is a Star" by Nick Mamatas (Ho Chi Minh Park)
"Still Life, Reviving" by Kimn Neilson (Ocean View)
"Shallow and Deep" by Jason S. Ridler (Downtown Berkeley)
"Boy Toy" by Jim Nisbet (Yacht Harbor)
Part III: Company Town"The Law of Local Karma" by Susan Dunlap (Gourmet Ghetto)
"Wifebeater Tank Top" by J.M. Curet (West Berkeley)
"Identity Theft" by Summer Brenner (North Berkeley)
"Dear Fellow Graduates" by Michael David Lukas (Indian Rock)
"Frederick Douglass Elementary" by Aya de León (West Berkeley Flats)
"Righteous Kill" by Owen Hill (Gilman District)
About the author
JERRY THOMPSON is a bookseller, poet, playwright, and musician. His work has appeared in
ZYZZYVA and the
James White Review. He is the coauthor of
Images of America: Black Artists in Oakland. His fiction and prose have appeared in various anthologies including
Voices Rising, edited by G. Winston James, and
Freedom in this Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing, edited by E. Lynn Harris. He is the coeditor of
Oakland Noir.OWEN HILL is the author of two crime novels,
The Chandler Apartments and
The Incredible Double, and he coedited
The Annotated Big Sleep with Pamela Jackson and Anthony Dean Rizzuto. Until recently he lived in the Chandler Building on the corner of Telegraph and Dwight in Berkeley.
