Gary Phillips has published novels, comics, and short stories, and edited numerous anthologies, including Orange County Noir. Violent Spring, first published in 1994, was named one of the essential crime novels of Los Angeles. Culprits, a linked anthology he coedited, has been optioned as a British miniseries, and he was a staff writer on FX's Snowfall about crack and the CIA in 1980s South Central, where he grew up.
South Central Noir features locale-centric short stories from
writers Steph Cha, Nikolas Charles, Tananarive Due, Larry
Fondation, Gar Anthony Haywood, Naomi Hirahara, Emory Holmes II,
Roberto Lovato, Penny Mickelbury, Gary Phillips, Eric Stone, Jervey
Tervalon, Jeri Westerson, and Désirée Zamorano, who should all
rightfully be named because their contributions are searing and
diverse, leaning on their own understanding of what could possibly
happen within . . . 'roughly 33 square miles.-- "New York Amsterdam
News"
South Central Noir is another fine collection in the venerable,
admirable Akashic Books series. And if the editors are willing to
subdivide every city they have already visited, then we lucky
readers of all things noir have decades of enjoyment ahead.-- "New
York Journal of Books"
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