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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Houston noir
  name:
    name part: Zepeda, Gwendolyn
    role:
      role term: editor,
    role:
      role term: writer of introduction.
  type of resource: text
  genre: short story
  genre: Detective and mystery fiction.
  genre: Fiction.
  genre: Mystery fiction.
  genre: Short stories.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 253 pages : map ; 21 cm.
  abstract: "Zepeda's introduction notes her hometown's unique features, including the absence of any zoning laws, making Houston 'culturally diverse, internally incongruous, and ever-changing'...Noir aficionados will be pleased." -- Publishers Weekly "There's precious little comfort to be found in any of these Houston neighborhoods, most of which are set light-years away from the city's notoriously cushy new-money culture...Houston comes across as a haven of multiculturalism--though, as in all the 90-plus volumes of Akashic's 15-year-old series, the vision of the city that emerges isn't likely to jump-start tourism for any but the most ghoulishly inclined." -- Kirkus Reviews " Houston Noir has arrived, an ode to the grime, grit and glamour of Texas's largest, most fascinating (and, to be fair, probably ugliest) city. Houston is unique in Texas history in that it's a large, multicultural port city that has never had zoning laws. While that can mean oil refineries located right next to schools, it can also mean--and does mean--one of the least segregated cities in the United States, which, combined with urban sprawl, means every kind of story, in every kind of combination, is up for grabs as a Houston story. We can't wait to see all the different visions of this complex town!" -- CrimeReads " Houston Noir is a great collection of fourteen noir mysteries in the always reliable, always intriguing Akashic Noir series. This collection was edited by Gwendolyn Zepeda who did a bang-up job of selecting writers and encouraging them to great noir." -- Tonstant Weader 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: Tom Abrahams, Robert Boswell, Sarah Cortez, Anton DiSclafani, Stephanie Jaye Evans, Wanjiku Wa Ngugi, Adrienne Perry, Pia Pico, Reyes Ramirez, Icess Fernandez Rojas…
  table of contents: Part I: Desireable locations with private security. Tangled / Anton DiSclafani -- One in the family / Adrienne Perry -- The use of landscape / Robert Boswell -- Part II: Peaceful hamlets, great for families. A dark universe / Larry Watts -- Xitali Zaragoza, curandera / Reyes Ramirez -- Photo album / Sarah Cortez -- Part III: Minutes from downtown and nightlife. Where the ends meet / Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton -- Tolerance / Tom Abrahams -- City of girls / Leslie Contreras Schwartz -- Miles's blues / Wanjikũ wa Ngũgĩ -- Part IV: Up-and-coming areas, newly revitalized. Happy hunting / Icess Fernandez Rojas -- The falls of Westpark / Pia Pico -- Railway track / Sehba Sarwar -- Jamie's mother / Stephanie Jay Evans.
  note: edited by Gwendolyn Zepeda.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-tx
  subject:
    topic: Detective and mystery stories, American
  subject:
    topic: Noir fiction, American
  subject:
    topic: Short stories, American
  subject:
    topic: Detective and mystery stories, American
  subject:
    topic: Noir fiction, American
  subject:
    topic: Short stories, American
  subject:
    geographic: Houston (Tex.)
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: Texas
    geographic: Houston
  classification: PS648.N64 H68 2019
  classification: 813.08720806
  classification: 813/.0872083587641411
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Akashic noir series
  identifier: 1617757063
  identifier: 9781617757068
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 180910
    record change date: 20250318222059.0
    record identifier: in00004171806
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng