San Francisco Crime Noir Night: “Crime in the City” | SOMA

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“Crime fiction is almost like a product of capitalism. It’s about social inequality” –Ian Rankin Join four of the finest exponents of crime and noir as they discuss how fiction is not just a mirror to the seamier sides of life, but the proverbial hammer with which to shape it.

Speakers include:

• Owen Hill is the author of two novels and many books of poetry. Of his latest, The Incredible Double, David Ulin of the Los Angeles Times said,”…here we have the essence of noir, a life lived at the edges”. He lives in Berkeley, where he works as a bookseller and curates a reading series.
• Jim Nisbet, long regarded as one of fiction’s best kept secrets, is about to claim 2010 as his own, with the publication of two new novels, and the reissuing of ten of his previous classics!
• Summer Brenner’s novel of sex-trafficking, I-5 made numerous book of the year lists for 2009, and is an underground best-seller.
• Peter Maravelis is the best-selling editor of San Francisco Noir and San Francisco Noir 2. He has worked at City Lights bookstore for many years as the readings co-ordinator.

TALKS!: Crime in the City: Crime/noir writers
Wednesday, March 17
7:30pm
Free

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