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Chargement... Columbus Noirpar Andrew Welsh-Huggins (Directeur de publication)
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  PhoenixTerran | Feb 9, 2021 |    Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.I feel like the selling point of a book like this would be to make the city come alive... but you don't really get a sense of Columbus from Columbus Noir. Really the only thing you come out of it knowing is that it is gentrifying: I think half or more of these stories deal directly or indirectly with gentrification, with people remodelling homes or going to fancy coffee shops in run-down neighborhoods. While I'm sure this is an important part of Columbus in 2020, it did get repetitive, and doesn't really feel unique. But can you make a unique book about Columbus? Maybe this is just because I haven't gone much, but the vibe one gets off Columbus is that it's Ohio's least interesting major city (aside from Dayton). I feel like I would have done a Cincinnati Noir or Cleveland Noir long before I did a Columbus Noir-- those cities have dark and seedy histories that lead to dark and seedy presents. All that said, there are some good individual stories here. Things occasionally get repetitive (there are a lot of hot but ill-intentioned women), but there are some good pieces of dark fiction. I particularly enjoyed Kristen Lepionka's "Gun People" (middle-class woman falls for working-class home renovator), Andrew Welsh-Huggins's "Going Places" (about the governor's bodyguard), Tom Barlow's "Honor Guard" (a guy's dad accidentally kills someone, and he has to deal with the consequences), Mercedes King's "An Agreeable Wife for a Suitable Husband" (a period piece about a woman with an awful husband; I wish there had been more period pieces, actually, but this was it), Laura Bickle's "The Dead and the Quiet" (a homeless junkie finds liberation), and Julia Keller's "All That Burns the Mind" (the rare academia story that gets the details right). So it's worth reading if you come across it and want to spend a diverting couple days reading it. Stevil2001 | Aug 7, 2020 | Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.I received a free copy from the publisher and LibraryThing in exchange for my honest opinion. (  ) readingover50 | May 26, 2020 | Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.Columbus, like any place, surrenders its secrets when you sink a spade and turn its dirt to the sun. Readers will find some of that spade work in action in this recent collection of dark stories from Akashic Books' noir series. Like other books in the series, contributors locate the stories in a particular place: in this instance, Columbus. Among the fourteen stories you’ll find the regular assortment of schemers, femme fatales, revenge artists, and hapless dark-souled losers that you might expect in noir literature. Most of the stories make good use of the environs of Columbus, making it familiar to readers, although a few could have been set anywhere in the United States. That says more about the sameness of American popular culture than anything about a lack of author imagination. In general, all can hold a reader’s interest as each story moves inexorably toward its climax, its big reveal, or the protagonist’s reluctant acceptance or untimely end—the classic endings of noir stories. There are a few distractions among the stories. The ending of a couple are telegraphed, which may or not be a fault really, depending on whether you enjoy the suspense of mystery or the entropy of psychological unraveling. More problematic are the few stories in which the resolution doesn’t quite pass the smell test – you will wonder how the ending can stand the forensic investigations to come. But overall, the book’s variety entertains at a high level. Columbus Noir holds its own with other books in the Akashic Books’ noir series. With at least 100 titles to keep it company, that’s no small feat. I received a review copy of this book, and I based this review on that copy. petescisco | Apr 29, 2020 | Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.I spent a lot of time in Columbus when I was in grad school at Ohio University, even though the campus was about an hour or so east(ish), so that familiarity helped to make this book even more enjoyable. That said, if you enjoy noir fiction you'll enjoy this whether you've ever been to Columbus or not. The stories might take place in specific neighborhoods but the underlying heart of each story is human first and foremost, regional second. I would recommend this, as well as all of the noir series, for readers who like darker stories. Lovers of short fiction in general will also enjoy the overall strength of this volume. Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via LibraryThing Early Reviewers. (  ) pomo58 | Apr 9, 2020 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"Like the rest of the state of Ohio, Columbus has been hit hard by the opioid crisis, and the stories included in Akashic''s ode to the city are as full of misery as the city currently is in real life. Moments of humanity shine through in many of the tales in this collection, and epic takes on pride and greed make many of the stories in this collection go beyond small miseries into the realm of Shakespearian tragedy. Urgent, beautiful, and not to be missed." --CrimeReads, included in CrimeReads'' Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2020 "When author Andrew Welsh-Huggins started on his latest work, he knew he wanted the stories to be focused in and around Columbus, his adopted hometown of 22 years. But it wasn''t the area''s bustling arts scene, avid sports culture or homey Midwestern feel that the writer and journalist wanted to highlight. Instead, he wanted to focus on the seedy inner workings of the city''s underbelly--at least fictitiously--in Columbus Noir." --Columbus Dispatch "[Huggins] says Columbus is the perfect setting for the kind of mayhem that occurs when dreamers become schemers...Now he has convinced 13 local writers to join him in investigating Columbus'' dark corners and imagining the kinds of things that can happen when relationships turn vicious and ambition trumps ethics." --Columbus Monthly, Seven Questions with editor Andrew Welsh-Huggins "Femmes fatales, shady clubs and antiheroes: all the elements are here in Columbus Noir, a satisfying collection of 14 stories by some of Ohio''s best authors, in a series of more than a hundred books in an award-winning series that includes locales like Baghdad Noir and Wall Street Noir." --Akron Beacon Journal "This superior Akashic noir anthology gathers 14 dark snapshots of Ohio''s capital, a very dangerous place indeed, with heavy drug use and murder touching down everywhere, from the German Village neighborhood to the statehouse...Noir fans should be well satisfied." --Publishers Weekly "The latest stage in Akashic''s master plan to paint the world black is marked by 14 new stories...and the different shades of noir they invoke, from light gray to pitch black." --Kirkus Reviews 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 by: Lee Martin, Robin Yocum, Kristen Lepionka, Craig McDonald, Chris Bournea, Andrew Welsh-Huggins, Tom Barlow, Mercedes King, Daniel Best, Laura Bickle, Yolonda Tonette Sanders, Julia Keller, Khalid Moalim, and Nancy Zafris. From the introduction by Andrew Welsh-Huggins: Today, Columbus is an epicenter of the opioid epidemic, awash in heroin and the even deadlier fentanyl as dealers flood the city with their wares...The wealth gap in the city is growing, and Columbus is now one of the deadliest places in the state for babies trying to make it to their first birthday, even more so if their mothers are African American. These days, Columbus is a place forensic investigators are moving to. Overdoses, homicides, infant mortality: at long last, we''re finally as lethal as any big American city. In that light (and darkness) I''m pleased to present Columbus Noir, a collection of shadowy tales from the city''s best storytellers set in neighborhoods across the metropolis. Sexual passion drives many of the stories, appropriate for a genre marked by protagonists striving for things out of their reach. Racism makes an appearance or two, as do those twin pillars of noir, greed and pride. Still, a deep appreciation of Columbus runs through the book as forcefully as the swath cut by the Olentangy after a couple of days of hard rain. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Columbus Noir is edited by Andrew Welsh-Huggins who has collected fourteen stories from fourteen contributors with connections either to Columbus specifically or to Ohio more generally: Robin Yocum, Kristen Lepionka, Craig McDonald, Chris Bournea, Andrew Welsh-Huggins, Tom Barlow, Mercedes King, Daniel Best, Laura Bickle, Lee Martin, Yolonda Tonette Sanders, Julia Keller, Khalid Moalim, and Nancy Zafris. While I recognized some of these authors, I was a little surprised by how many were completely new to me. But, then again, being introduced to new authors is another reason I enjoy reading anthologies. In general, Columbus Noir a solid anthology, the authors frequently exploring some of the more uncomfortable truths of the city and offering interesting perspectives into the lives lived there. (