Akashic Books
has just released an anthology of new short fiction set against
a variety of Brooklyn neighborhoods. "Brooklyn Noir"
is a collection of gloomy, gritty tales about the frailty of
the human condition. Each of the 20 stories also stars a different
Brooklyn neighborhood, from Greenpoint to Coney Island, from
East New York to Red Hook.
Brooklyn Heights author-editor Tim McLoughlin and authors C.J.
Sullivan and Lou Manfredo will read from their tales of woe at
the Barnes & Noble on Court Street in Downtown Brooklyn on
July 8 at 7 pm.
McLaughlin’s story, "When All This Was Bay Ridge,"
is about a man in a Sunset Park bar looking for answers about
his recently deceased father’s secret life; Manfredo’s "Case
Closed" follows a detective in Bensonhurst’s 62nd Precinct
as he struggles to apprehend a suspect who menaced the dame with
mesmerizing blue eyes; and Sullivan’s "Slipping into Darkness"
sheds light on a terrifying night in Bushwick.
The Barnes & Noble where the reading will take place is at
106 Court St. at State Street. For more information, call (718)
246-4996.
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