{"product_id":"chicago-noir-paperback","title":"Chicago Noir - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNeal Pollack\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJeffery Renard Allen\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eJim Arndorfer\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe population of \u003ci\u003eChicago Noir\u003c\/i\u003e is as diverse as any crowd at the lakefront fireworks show...As representative of Chicago as Oprah, MJ and a Gold Coast hot dog.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Chicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Noir\u003c\/i\u003e asks us to consider whether Chicago is, specifically, a noir city and, more significantly, how noir plays out in the current landscape...Its stories push us to think about how noir might still be relevant beyond a bad-ass sort of nostalgia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e--American Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChicago shouts noir from the top of the Sears Tower to the nether regions of Wacker Drive, from the crime-ridden West Side to the moneyed taint of the North...Perhaps most impressive about Pollack's collection is the wide variety of writers selected to contribute.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Newcity\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe stories that editor Pollack has chosen to represent his former hometown vary wildly in voices, approaches and style...New interpretations, juxtaposed with classic structures, bring together the different faces of Chicago: North and South, old and new.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e--TimeOut Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarshaling the talents of eighteen award winning and acclaimed writers, most of whom have professional and\/or personal ties to Chicago, Pollack . . . pays homage to the city that epitomizes the noir genre . . . Demonstrating crisp, riveting pacing, dialog redolent with sardonic despair, and dark, nihilistic atmosphere, nearly all the entries are stellar examples of noir at its best.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e--ForeWord\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe latest urban noir anthology provides the audience with eighteen delightful tales that pay homage to the ethnic neighborhoods and to the sports teams.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Midwest Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Noir\u003c\/i\u003e is a highly readable story collection which offers numerous fresh, inventive takes on the well-worn noir genre . . . A very enjoyable effort overall.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Pete Lit\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Noir\u003c\/i\u003e is a legitimate heir to the noble literary tradition of the greatest city in America. Nelson Algren and James Farrell would be proud.\u003cbr\u003e--Stephen Elliott, author of \u003ci\u003eHappy Baby\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf ever a city was made to be the home of noir, it's Chicago. These writers go straight to Chicago's noir heart.\u003cbr\u003e--Aleksandar Hemon, author of \u003ci\u003eNowhere Man\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrand new stories by: Neal Pollack, Achy Obejas, Alexai Galaviz-Budziszewski, Adam Langer, Joe Meno, Peter Orner, Kevin Guilfoile, Bayo Ojikutu, Jeffery Renard Allen, Luciano Guerriero, Claire Zulkey, Andrew Ervin, M.K. Meyers, Todd Dills, C.J. Sullivan, Daniel Buckman, Amy Sayre-Roberts, and Jim Arndorfer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe city of Chicago has spent much time and money over the last decade marketing itself as a tourist-friendly place for the whole family. It's got a shiny new Millennium Park, a spaceship in the middle of Soldier Field, and thousands of identical faux-brick condo buildings that seem to spring from the ground overnight. Chicago's rough-and-tumble tough-guy reputation has been replaced by a postcard with a lake view. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut that city's not gone. The hard-bitten streets once represented by James Farrell and Nelson Algren may have shifted locales, and they may be populated by different ethnicities, but Chicago is still a place where people struggle to survive and where, for many, crime is the only means for their survival. The stories in \u003ci\u003eChicago Noir\u003c\/i\u003e reclaim that territory. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Noir\u003c\/i\u003e is populated\u003c\/b\u003e by hired killers and jazz men, drunks and dreamers, corrupt cops and ticket scalpers and junkies. It's the Chicago that the Department of Tourism doesn't want you to see, a place where hard cases face their sad fates, and pay for their sins in blood. These are stories about blocks that visitors are afraid to walk. They tell of a Chicago beyond Oprah, Michael Jordan, and deep-dish pizza. This isn't someone's dream of Chicago. It's not even a nightmare. It's just the real city, unfiltered. \u003ci\u003eChicago Noir\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeal Pollack is the author of three books: the cult classic The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, Beneath the Axis of Evil, and the rock 'n' roll novel Never Mind the Pollacks. 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