Wed., October 20, 2010
7:30pm, Free

“Crime fiction is almost like a product of capitalism. It’s about social inequality” (Ian Rankin, best-selling crime novelist)
Join five 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. 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.  Benjamin Whitmer and Michael Harris are debuting novels as part of the noir Switchblade imprint. Prepare to be impressed, entertained, and awed.