This seems to be the day for reviews of "Best American Noir of the Century" edited by Otto Penzler and James Ellroy.
Over at Bookgasm the review is an over-all look at this collection by Alan Cranis http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/crime/the-best-american-noir-of-the-century
At Spinetingler Magazine, from now until Friday, there will be reviews of each story in the anthology done by such readers as Gary Phillips, Chris Holm, Patti Abbott, and Steve Mosby, to name only a few of the folks who are writing the reviews. The first look at the book is already up and reviews will be posted every hour. You'll find them all under this url http://www.spinetinglermag.com/tag/the-best-american-noir-of-the-century/
And on the e-book anthology front we have "Discount Noir" doing an interesting bit of advertising. Some of the authors are doing guest blog posts detailing how they came up with the inspiration for their stories. It's always fun to see how a writer's mind works. From "Discount Noir":
Kieren Shea's "One in the Big Box" http://davidcranmer.blogspot.com/2010/11/one-in-big-box.html
Bill Crider's "Their Fancies Lightly Turned" http://charlesgramlich.blogspot.com/2010/11/discount-noir-and-bill-crider.html
3 comments:
I'm halfway through Discount Noir. Some damn fine writing.
I would like to read Discount Noir but need a print copy. Hopefully, it will be successful enough they will consider doing that.
It's amazing the writers that they've gathered for this, David. What I really love is how everyone took the theme and found so many different ways to tell a story.
I believe it was shopped around the print publishers, but no one bit, Kevin. The publishers seem afraid of print anthologies, not enough money for them, I guess. Though I'm with you, I'd love to see it in print.
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