Boston Noir 2 The Classics

Classic reprints from: Linda Barnes, Jason Brown, Andre Dubus, Mitch Evich, George Harrar, George V. Higgins, Daphne Kalotay, Jhumpa Lahiri, Dennis Lehane, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert B. Parker, Hank Phillippi Ryan, Michael Thomas, Hannah Tinti, John Updike, Abraham Verghese, and David Foster Wallace. Dennis Lehaneis the author of the Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro mystery series ( A Drink Before the War; Darkness, Take My Hand; Sacred; Gone, Baby, Gone; Prayers for Rain; and Moonlight Mile), as well as Coronado(five stories and a play) and the award-winning novels Mystic River, Shutter Island, and The Given Day. Mystic River, Shutter Island, and Gone, Baby, Gonehave been made into award-winning films. In 2009 he edited the best-selling anthology Boston Noirfor Akashic Books. Mary Cottonis the pseudonymous author of nine novels for young adults, six of them New York Timesbestsellers. She is also a fiction editor for the literary magazine Post Road, and is co-editor of No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road. She is co-owner of Newtonville Books in Boston, Massachusetts. Jaime Clarkeis the author of the novel We're So Famous, editor of Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes, and Conversations with Jonathan Lethem, and co-editor of No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road. He is a founding editor of Post Roadand has taught creative writing at University of Massachusetts, Boston, and Emerson College. He is co-owner of Newtonville Books in Boston, Massachusetts.

IntroductionPart I: Broken Families“The Marriage Privilege” by Chuck Hogan (West Roxbury)“Night-Side” by Joyce Carol Oates (Quincy)“Home Sweet Home” by Hannah Tinti (Route 128)“Surrogate” by Robert B. Parker (Watertown)Part II: Criminal Minds“Mushrooms” by Dennis Lehane (Dorchester)“Lucky Penny” by Linda Barnes (Beacon Hill)“Blanche Cleans Up” (excerpt) by Barbara Neely (Brookline)“The Balance of the Day” by George V. Higgins (Roxbury)“Bait” (excerpt) by Kenneth Abel (South Boston)Part III: Voyeurs & Outsiders“Townies” by Andre Dubus (Merrimack River)“Driving the Heart” by Jason Brown (Boston General Hospital)“The 5:22” by George Harrar (Kendall Square)Infinite Jest (excerpt) by David Foster Wallace (Brighton)“At Night” by David Ryan (Back Bay)