Miami Noir
Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2007
John Bond, “T-bird”
New Jersey Noir
Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2012
Lou Manfredo, “Soul Anatomy”
New Orleans Noir
Shamus Award Finalist 2008
James Nolan, “Open Mike”
Paris Noir
Edgar Award Finalist 2009
Dominique Mainard, “La Vie en Rose”
Philadelphia Noir
Macavity Award Finalist 2011
Keith Gilman, “Devil’s Pocket”
Phoenix Noir
Edgar Award Winner 2010
Luis Alberto Urrea, “Amapola”
Anthony Award Finalist 2010
Luis Alberto Urrea, “Amapola”
Macavity Award Finalist 2010
Luis Alberto Urrea, “Amapola”
Shamus Award Finalist 2010
Gary Phillips, “Blazin’ on Broadway”
Queens Noir
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award Winner 2009
Joe Guglielmelli, “Buckner’s Error”
San Diego Noir
Southern California Independent Booksellers Association
Award Finalist 2011
Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2012
T. Jefferson Parker, “Vic Primeval”
San Francisco Noir
Macavity Award Finalist 2006
David Corbett, “It Can Happen”
Staten Island Noir
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award Winner 2013
Patricia Smith, “When They Are Done with Us”
Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2013
Patricia Smith, “When They Are Done with Us”
Toronto Noir
Arthur Ellis Award Winner 2009
Pasha Malla, “Filmsong”
Arthur Ellis Award Finalist 2009
Peter Robinson, “Walking the Dog”
Twin Cities Noir
Shamus Award Finalist 2007
Bruce Rubenstein, “Smoke Got in My Eyes”
Venice Noir
Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2013
Emily St. John Mandel, “Drifter”
Wall Street Noir
Derringer Award Finalist 2008
Twist Phelan, “A Trader’s Lot”
Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2008
Stephen Rhodes, “At the Top of His Game”
All rights reserved. This collection is comprised of works of fiction. All names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the authors’ imaginations. Any resemblance to real events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Series concept by Tim McLoughlin and Johnny Temple
Haiti map by Aaron Petrovich
Cover photo by Jerome Handler, “Le Negre Marron” (The Black Maroon), Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1970; image reference NW0229, as shown on hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/, compiled by Jerome Handler and Michael Tuite and sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the University of Virginia Library.
The bonus chapters "Noir Indeed" ©2011 by Edwidge Danticat and "The Last Department" ©2011 by Katia D. Ulysse appeared in Haiti Noir, published in 2011 by Akashic Books
Published by Akashic Books
©2014 by Akashic Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-61775-193-6
eISBN: 9781617752049
Library of Congress Control Number: 2013938709
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Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the stories in this anthology. The Kurt Vonnegut Jr. epigraph is reprinted by permission of The Trust u/w of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Donald C. Farber, Trustee; “Praisesong for Port-au-Prince” by Danielle Legros Georges was originally published in MaComère 2 (1999), © 1999 by Danielle Legros Georges; “Preface to the Life of a Bureaucrat” by Jacques Roumain was originally published in French as “Préface à la vie d’un bureaucrate” in Haïti-Journal on February 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, and 25, 1930, reprinted by permission of Claude Roumain; “A Strange Story” by Ida Faubert was originally published in French as “Une étrange histoire” in Sous le ciel caraïbe (Paris: Éditions O.L.B., 1959), © 1959 by Ida Faubert; “The Enchanted Second Lieutenant” by Jacques-Stephen Alexis was originally published in French as “Le sous-lieutenant enchanté” in Romancéro aux étoiles (Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1960), reprinted by permission of Éditions Gallimard, © Éditions Gallimard, 1960, renewed in 1968, published in English in Callaloo 20, no. 3 (Summer 1997), trans. Sharon Masingale Bell, © 1998 by Charles H. Rowell, reprinted with permission of Johns Hopkins University Press; “A White House with Pink Curtains in the Downstairs Windows” by Jan J. Dominique was originally published in French as “Une maison blanche avec des rideaux roses aux fenêtres du rez-de-chaussée” in Évasion: nouvelles (Port-au-Prince: Éditions des Antilles, 1996), © 1996 by Jan J. Dominique; “Oresca” by Paulette Poujol Oriol was originally published in French in Boutures 1, no. 4 (March–August 2001), © 2001 by Paulette Poujol Oriol; “Children of Heroes” (excerpt) by Lyonel Trouillot was originally published in French as Les enfants des héros (Paris: Actes Sud, 2002), reprinted from Children of Heroes by Lyonel Trouillot, translated by Linda Coverdale, by permission of the University of Nebraska Press, © 2002 by Actes Sud, English translation © 2008 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska; “Remember One Day” by Emmelie Prophète was originally published in French as “Un jour rappelle-toi” in Boutures 1, no. 1 (July 1999), © 1999 by Emmelie Prophète; “Rêve Haitien” by Ben Fountain was originally published in Harper’s magazine, January 2000, © 2000 by Ben Fountain; “Heading South” by Dany Laferrière was originally published in French as Vers le sud (Montréal: Éditions du Boréal, 2006), licensed here from the book Heading South, by Dany Laferrière, published in 2009 by Douglas & McIntyre: an imprint of D&M Publishers Inc., reprinted by permission from the publisher and Éditions Grasset et Fasquelle (France), © 2006 by Éditions Grasset et Fasquelle; “Three Letters You Will Never Read” by Georges Anglade was originally published in French as “Trois lettres que vous ne lirez jamais” in Rire haïtien: les lodyans de Georges Anglade (Haitian Laughter: A Mosaic of Ninety Miniatures in French and English) by Georges Anglade, trans. Anne Pease McConnell (Coconut Creek, FL: Educa Vision Inc., 2006), © 2006 by Georges Anglade; “The Port-au-Prince Marriage Special” by Edwidge Danticat was originally published in Conjunctions 50 (Spring 2008), © 2008 by Edwidge Danticat; “True Life” by Michèle Voltaire Marcelin was originally published in French as “La vraie vie” in Le Cahier de la RAL,M, no. 8 (2008), © 2008 by Michèle Voltaire Marcelin; “I Just Lost My Way” by Èzili Dantò was originally part of The Red, Black & Moonlight monologue series, based on Kenbe La! Crossings of a Vodun-Roots Woman by Èzili Dantò, © 1997 by Èzili Dantò/Marguerite Laurent; “The Mission” by Marie-Hélène Laforest was originally published in Foreign Shores (Montréal: Éditions du CIDIHCA, 2002), © 2002 by Marie-Hélène Laforest; “Barbancourt Blues” (excerpt) by Nick Stone was originally published in Mr. Clarinet (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), © 2007 by Nick Stone; “Dame Marie” by Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell was originally published in Callaloo 30, no. 3 (Spring 2007), © 2007 by Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell, reprinted by permission of University of Iowa Press; “Surrender,” excerpted from The Loneliness of Angels by Myriam J. A. Chancy (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2010), appears here with minor editorial changes by permission of the author, © 2010 by Myriam J.A. Chancy; “Things I Know About Fairy Tales” by Roxane Gay was originally published in Necessary Fiction (blog), May 13, 2009, http://necessaryfiction.com/stories/RoxaneGayThingsIKnowAboutFairyTales, © 2009 by Roxane Gay.
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