Portland Noir

Kevin Sampsell & Karen Karbo & Bill Cameron & Ariel Gore & Floyd Skloot & Kimberly Warner-Cohen & Jonathan Selwood & Justin Hocking & Jess Walter & Monica Drake & Jamie S. Rich & Zoe Trope & Megan Kruse & Gigi Little & Dan Deweese & Luciana Lopez & Chris A. Bolton

Language: English

Publisher: Akashic Books

Published: Jun 1, 2009

Pages: 252
ABC: 2

Description:

In a city full of police controversies, hippie artist punk houses, and overzealous liberals, Portland, Oregon, is a place where even its fiction blurs with its bizarre realities. Brand-new stories by: Gigi Little, Justin Hocking, Christopher Bolton, Jess Walter, Monica Drake, Jamie S. Rich (illustrated by Joelle Jones), Dan DeWeese, Zoe Trope, Luciana Lopez, Karen Karbo, Bill Cameron, Ariel Gore, Floyd Skloot, Megan Kruse, Kimberly Warner-Cohen, and Jonathan Selwood. Editor **Kevin Sampsell** is a bookstore employee and writer. He is the author of a short story collection, *Creamy Bullets* (Chiasmus Press), and the upcoming memoir *The Suitcase* (HarperPerennial, summer 2009). He is also the editor of *The Insomniac Reader* (Manic D Press) and the publisher of the micropress Future Tense Books. **