title: Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics (Akashic Noir Anthologies) (v. 2)
author: Tim McLoughlin
description: <i>Brooklyn Noir</i> (2004)^B featured originals, but here, McLoughlin mines reprints, allowing him to pay tribute to "all the great stories that had given me the idea for such a book in the first place." These 13 Brooklyn-centric stories are slotted into the volume 1 categories ("Old School," "New School," "Cops and Robbers," and "Backwater Brooklyn") but with authors as wildly diverse as H. P. Lovecraft, Hubert Selby Jr., Donald E. Westlake, and Jonathan Lethem. (Pete Hamill and Maggie Estep make return appearances.) It's certainly possible to argue whether Lethem and Estep belong in a volume of "classics," or even whether the book is appropriately named (continuing the devaluation of the word <i>noir</i>, here it's a generic "dark fiction"). But, though stylistically scattershot, this is good stuff, from Lovecraft's baroque "The Horror at Red Hook" to Selby's "Tralala" (one of the stories in <i>Last Exit to Brooklyn</i>) to "By the Dawn's Early Light," a great Matt Scudder story by Lawrence Block. Terrific appeal for Brooklynites, but may seem an odd mix to the rest of the country. <i>Keir Graff</i><br /><i>Copyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved</i>
zlib_text: BOSTON NOIR
  
  BOSTON NOIR
  
  EDITED BY DENNIS LEHANE
  
  This collection is comprised of works of fiction. All names, characters, places, and incidents are
  the product of the authors' imaginations. Any resemblance to real events or persons, living or dead, is
  entirely coincidental.
  Published by Akashic Books
  (c) 2009 Akashic Books
  Series concept by Tim McLoughlin and Johnny Temple
  Boston map by Sohrab Habibion
  ISBN: 978-1-933354-91-0
  Library of Congress Control Number: 2009922932
  All rights reserved
  Akashic Books
  PO Box 1456
  New York, NY 10009
  info@akashicbooks.com
  www.akashicbooks.com
  
  ALSO IN THE AKASHIC NOIR SERIES:
  Baltimore Noir, edited by Laura Lippman
  Bronx Noir, edited by S.J. Rozan
  Brooklyn Noir, edited by Tim McLoughlin
  Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics, edited by Tim McLoughlin
  Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing but the Truth
  edited by Tim McLoughlin & Thomas Adcock
  Chicago Noir, edited by Neal Pollack
  D.C. Noir, edited by George Pelecanos
  D.C. Noir 2: The Classics, edited by George Pelecanos
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