Joe Meno is a fiction writer and playwright who lives in Chicago. He is the winner of the Nelson Algren Literary Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Great Lakes Book Award, and a finalist for the Story Prize. He is the editor of Chicago Noir: The Classics and the author of two short story collections and multiple novels including the best sellers Hairstyles of the Damned and The Boy Detective Fails; Office Girl; and his latest novel, Marvel and a Wonder. He is a professor in the Department of Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago.
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Table of Contents Introduction Part I: The Jazz Age Harry S. Keeler, "Thirty Seconds of Darkness" Rogers Park Sherwood Anderson, "Brothers" Douglas Max Allan Collins, "Kaddish for the Kid" West Town Richard Wright, "The Man Who Went to Chicago" (EXCERPT) Illinois Medical District Part II: Noir and Neo-Noir Nelson Algren, "He Swung and He Missed" Lakeview Fredric Brown, "I'll Cut Your Throat Again, Kathleen" Magnificent Mile Patricia Highsmith, "The Price of Salt" (EXCERPT) Gold Coast Barry Gifford, "Starving Dogs of Little Croatia" Wicker Park Stuart Kaminsky, "Blue Note" Woodlawn Libby Fischer Hellman, "The Whole World is Watching" Grant Park Part III: Modern Crime Sarah Paretsky, "Skin Deep" Michigan Avenue Percy Spurlark Parker, "Death and the Point Spread" Lawndale Sandra Cisneros, "One Holy Night" Pilsen Hugh Holton, "The thirtieth amendment" Bridgeport Stuart Dybek, "We Didn't" Oak Street Beach
Table of Contents Introduction Part I: The Jazz Age Harry S. Keeler, "Thirty Seconds of Darkness" Rogers Park Sherwood Anderson, "Brothers" Douglas Max Allan Collins, "Kaddish for the Kid" West Town Richard Wright, "The Man Who Went to Chicago" (EXCERPT) Illinois Medical District Part II: Noir and Neo-Noir Nelson Algren, "He Swung and He Missed" Lakeview Fredric Brown, "I'll Cut Your Throat Again, Kathleen" Magnificent Mile Patricia Highsmith, "The Price of Salt" (EXCERPT) Gold Coast Barry Gifford, "Starving Dogs of Little Croatia" Wicker Park Stuart Kaminsky, "Blue Note" Woodlawn Libby Fischer Hellman, "The Whole World is Watching" Grant Park Part III: Modern Crime Sarah Paretsky, "Skin Deep" Michigan Avenue Percy Spurlark Parker, "Death and the Point Spread" Lawndale Sandra Cisneros, "One Holy Night" Pilsen Hugh Holton, "The thirtieth amendment" Bridgeport Stuart Dybek, "We Didn't" Oak Street Beach
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