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  <title><![CDATA[Portland Noir (Akashic Noir)]]></title>
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  <default-description>&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;  
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Editor &lt;strong&gt;Kevin Sampsell&lt;/strong&gt; is a bookstore employee and writer. He is the author of a short story collection, &lt;em&gt;Creamy Bullets&lt;/em&gt; (Chiasmus Press), and the upcoming memoir &lt;em&gt;The Suitcase&lt;/em&gt; (HarperPerennial, summer 2009). He is also the editor of &lt;em&gt;The Insomniac Reader&lt;/em&gt; (Manic D Press) and the publisher of the micropress Future Tense Books.&lt;/p&gt;</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">2009</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>Portland Noir (Akashic Noir)</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jess Walter]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Luciana Lopez]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Feb 03 23:13:01 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Feb 03 23:18:12 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I edited this really fun and gritty collection of literary crime fiction for Akashic. It comes out in early June. Some great Portland lit stars like Monica Drake, Ariel Gore, and Zoe Trope team up with seasoned mystery authors like Jess Walter ad Bill Cameron. But a couple of my favorite pieces came...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45330229">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Joy]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jul 04 10:40:24 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 29 12:10:05 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dim the lights, put on some slow-burning jazz, and loosen your tie as you take the craft of flash fiction writing and apply it to the seedy, crime-riddled world of noir fiction. Your job is to present an engaging story in 500 words or less in that grand tradition of Raymond Chandler, Patricia Highsm...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62125608">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71021147">
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Sep 12 20:40:28 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Sep 12 20:40:48 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Noir is easier to recognize than to define. The best dictionary definition I found was, “crime fiction featuring hard-boiled cynical characters and bleak sleazy settings.” Portland Noir, then, has a self-explanatory title: it is a collection of short, dark stories that take place in Portland, Or...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71021147">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61318527">
  <user id="34523">
    <name><![CDATA[Kyla!]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jun 27 15:14:03 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oooh, delightfully creepy stories all set within very specific locales in Portland.  I read this during the week I spent in Portland, while sitting in the Red and Black Cafe, which gets a mention in one of the stories.  I then had to walk 50 blocks to the house I was staying at, which had been pleas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61318527">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70178815">
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not finished with this book yet, but I am enjoying how the short stories give a flavor for actual places in the city. Makes me want to read other books in this series.]]></body>
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    <review id="63552079">
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    <name><![CDATA[Caitlin]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Jul 14 23:40:41 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[So far it's a little too name-droppy. Every page is full of Portland area minutiae and it's beginning to distract from the actual narrative.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="58745861">
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    <name><![CDATA[Terry]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jun 07 09:19:12 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jun 21 20:20:44 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[There were some interesting short pieces in this collection (I'm not a big fan of short fiction). It makes me appreciate even more what a stellar job the likes of Raymond Chandler did in capturing a whole city neighborhood by neighborhood in his L.A. novels.]]></body>
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    <review id="76080060">
  <user id="2887961">
    <name><![CDATA[Matthew]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some gems. Some filler. Might be more interesting to people who are from/have been to Portland. Obviously.]]></body>
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    <review id="62815413">
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    <name><![CDATA[Chris]]></name>
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  <date_added>Thu Jul 09 14:19:26 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 09 14:20:03 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I guess I'm a little biased, but whatever. I really liked the other stories, especially Gigi Little's.]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Robin]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Short mystery stories set in, well, Portland, Oregon.]]></body>
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    <review id="69976533">
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    <name><![CDATA[Joel]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[mildly amusing short stories set in Portland]]></body>
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    <review id="62874262">
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 07 07:20:39 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[featuring a selection of authors from my home town including my new friends, Monica Drake, author of Clown Girl, and Gigi Little, former circus clown.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[  I realize the title of the book is Portland &quot;Noir&quot; but I never realized I was living in such a creepy city.  None the less I had a hard time putting the book down. I would not recommend reading this book before going to sleep. I did and it resulted in some strange dreams.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read two stories, liked them, but then had to return this book to the library.  Guess a book of short stories wasn't keeping me hooked.  I will pick it up again, though.  ]]></body>
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