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Portland Noir

In a city full of police controversies, hippie artist punk houses, and overzealous liberals, Portland, Oregon, is a place where even its fiction blurs with its bizarre realities.

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Brand-new stories by: Gigi Little, Justin Hocking, Christopher Bolton, Jess Walter, Monica Drake, Jamie S. Rich (illustrated by Joelle Jones), Dan DeWeese, Zoe Trope, Luciana Lopez, Karen Karbo, Bill Cameron, Ariel Gore, Floyd Skloot, Megan Kruse, Kimberly Warner-Cohen, and Jonathan Selwood.

Editor Kevin Sampsellis a bookstore employee and writer. He is the author of a short story collection, Creamy Bullets(Chiasmus Press), and the upcoming memoir The Suitcase(HarperPerennial, summer 2009). He is also the editor of The Insomniac Reader(Manic D Press) and the publisher of the micropress Future Tense Books.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 300 pages

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