Toronto Noir
Akashic Books’ esteemed series of collections devoted to hardboiled crime stories, each one set in a different city, comes to the rain-soaked streets of our less-than-fair town with Toronto Noir. Co-editor Nathaniel G. Moore will join ‘Gun Molls’ Damian Rogers and Sasha Van Bon Bon of EYE WEEKLY to host “Noir Confessions”, an evening in which such contributors as George Elliot Clarke, Sean Dixon, Pasha Malla, Andrew Pyper, and Emily Schultz will publicly confess the most film noir-like things they've ever done. — A This Is Not A Reading Series event presented by Pages Books & Magazines, Akashic Books and EYE WEEKLY.
Toronto Noir editors Janine Armin and Nathaniel G. Moore have assembled a collection of hardboiled crime stories, Toronto Noir, that illustrates how there is no safe place to park your fedora in our less-than-fair city. “Numbskulls" by George Elliott Clarke, for instance, is set in East York. The nefarious edge of town known as the Humber Loop is represented by Sean Dixon’s yarn, "Sic Transit Gloria at the Humber Loop". Pasha Malla provides a glimpse of Little India’s spice and sin with “Filmsong”. "Tom" by Andrew Pyper indicates that the hipsters of Queen Street West are capable of far more than just fashion crimes. Emily Schultz’s tale “Stalling” reminds us that even such up-and-coming neighborhoods as Parkdale are dangerous places. Such notorious local scribblers as Peter Robinson, Gail Bowen, Nathan Sellyn, Heather Birrell, Ibi Kaslik, Raywat Deonandan, Christine Murray, Michael Redhill Kim Moritsugu, Mark Sinnett and RM Vaughan depict other familiar enclaves. Reading Toronto Noir is the safest way to travel the rain-soaked streets of Hogtown.
Janine Armin writes regularly for The Globe & Mail and contributes to Bookforum, the Village Voice, and Maisonneuve.
Nathaniel G. Moore is the author of Bowlbrawl and Let's Pretend We Never Met. He is the features editor of the danforthreview.com and a columnist for Broken Pencil. He divides his time between Montreal and Toronto.
Damian Rogers is the Arts & Lifestyle Editor at EYE WEEKLY. She is also a published poet who worked at Poetry Magazine, founded Pontiac Quarterly, contributed to uTOpia and edited books for Drag City.
Sasha Van Bon Bon is a nationally published sex columnist. Her work appears in EYE WEEKLY, the Montreal Mirror, the Uptown in Winnipeg and Boom in New Brunswick. She writes the occasional piece for The Globe & Mail, THIS and Flare. Sasha is also a widely celebrated performer, both as a solo burlesque artist and as a member of The Scandelles.
