Archive for January 16, 2011
THE BEST AMERICAN NOIR OF THE CENTURY edited by Otto Penzler and James Ellroy
At almost 800 pages and around $20 the anthology THE BEST AMERICAN NOIR OF THE CENTURY is guaranteed to please noir fans. The book is the no-brainer choice for anyone interested in crime fiction, but even more than that, anyone even remotely curious about the delineations under the umbrella term “crime fiction” must read Otto Penzler’s inspired introduction. As a reader of crime and noir fiction, there’s nothing more annoying than to see the word “noir” bandied about; its misuse threatens to render the term meaningless, so here’s Otto Penzler on this “prodigiously overused term” to set the record straight.
January 16, 2011
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Judi Clark · 
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Tags: 20th-Century, 800+ Pages, Noir, Short Stories · Posted in: Noir, Short Stories
