Milwaukee noir, paperback/tim hennessy

Description Milwaukee Noir is a Boswell Book Company best seller: #1 Paperback Fiction Bestseller for the week ending May 25, 2019, and a #2 Paperback Fiction Bestseller for the week ending May 4, 2019 Luxuriate in the seedy, wallow in the angry and shiver at the horrors that surely await you around the corner.

The sheer localness of Milwaukee Noir is superb, and the seediness of many characters here would qualify them for membership in a Tom Waits song.

-- Milwuakee Journal Sentinel Fourteen fictional tales of people behaving badly in the city and the burbs, including top-shelf writers Valerie Laken, Jane Hamilton, Larry Watson and Nick Petrie.

-- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , included in Summer Reading 2019; Editors Pick In Milwaukee Noir , among the latest titles in Akashic Books Noir series, 14 writers whove lived here offer a sinister tour of Brew Citys radically diverse neighborhoods.

Many of these pieces.

work effectively not only as atmospheric fiction but also as influential social commentary.

-- Shepherd Express Akashics distinctive series of crime fiction anthologies arrives in Brewtown.

The fourteen contributors include familiar Wisconsin writers Valerie Laken, Jennifer Morales, Jane Hamilton, Larry Watson, Nick Petrie and my Journal Sentinel colleague James E.

Causey.

Like other volumes in this series, Milwaukee Noir foregrounds specific locations: for example, Watsons story has a Yankee Hill setting, and Morales is set in the Silver City neighborhood.

-- Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal Noir exposes the underbelly of a place.

In film or fiction, characters live in the shadows, denizens of a night where every good intention is punished.

Noir found its natural home in New York City and LA in the 1940s and 50s.

Now, Milwaukee can lay claim to its own piece of the genre.

-- Lake Effect (WUWM 89.

7 FM, Milwaukee) Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir .

Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city.

Brand-new stories from: Jane Hamilton, Reed Farrel Coleman, Valerie Laken, Matthew J.

Prigge, Shauna Singh Baldwin, Vida Cross, Larry Watson, Frank Wheeler Jr.

, Derrick Harriell, Christi Clancy, James E.

Causey, Mary Thorson, Nick Petrie, and Jennifer Morales.

From the introduction by Tim Hennessy: Presently, Milwaukee is going through a renaissance--abandoned factories being converted to condos, craft breweries and distilleries pushing out corner taverns--yet at the same time it is among the most segregated and impoverished big cities in the country.

The gentrification of neighborhoods outside of downtown bear the impact of twentieth-century redlining efforts, forcing residents out due to housing demand, adding fuel to the affordable-housing crisis.

Such an environment and atmosphere make excellent fodder for noir fiction.

The book youre holding is the first of its kind--a short fiction collection about Milwaukee, by writers whove experienced life here.

The crime/noir genre at its best can be one of the purest forms of social commentary.

Ive gathered contributors who can tell not just a fine story, but who can write about the struggles and resilience of the people who live here.

Im honored to compile a body of work that represents what I love, and fear, about Milwaukee.

I love my citys lack of pretension; its stubbornness and pride in the unpolished corners.

I fear that my city faces an uncertain future--that as it becomes more divided it may pushes our best and brightest to find somewhere else to shine.

About the Author Tim Hennessy is a bookseller and writer who lives in Milwaukee with his wife and son.

His work has appeared in Midwestern Gothic , Tough , Crimespree Magazine , and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, among other places.