Phil in SF reviewed New Jersey noir by Joyce Carol Oates (Akashic noir series)
Mixed, like most anthologies
3 stars
I most enjoyed the Santlofer, Morrow and Arellano stories.
274 pages
English language
Published 2011 by Akashic Books.
3 stars
(1 review)
Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.
Brand-new stories (and a few poems) by: Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Safran Foer, Robert Pinsky, Edmund White & Michael Carroll, Richard Burgin, Paul Muldoon, Sheila Kohler, C.K. Williams, Gerald Stern, Lou Manfredo, S.A. Solomon, Bradford Morrow, Jonathan Santlofer, Jeffrey Ford, S.J. Rozan, Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini, Hirsh Sawhney, and Robert Arellano.
Subjects
- American Noir fiction
- Fiction
Places
- New Jersey