Lone Star Noir

by Byrd, Bobby; Byrd, Johnny

• ISBN13: 9781936070640
• ISBN10: 1936070642
• Edition: Original
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-19
• Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.

Summary

Includes brand-new stories by: James Crumley, Joe R. Lansdale, Claudia Smith, Ito Romo, Luis Alberto Urrea, David Corbett, George Weir, Sarah Cortez, Jesse Sublett, Dean James, Tim Tingle, Milton Burton, Lisa Sandlin, Jessica Powers, and Bobby Byrd. Bobby Byrdis the co-publisher of Cinco Puntos Press in El Paso, Texas. As a poet, Byrd is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship, the D.H. Lawrence Fellowship awarded by the University of New Mexico, and an International Residency Fellowship. John Byrd, co-publisher of Cinco Puntos Press, is co-editor (with Bobby Byrd) of the anthology Puro Border: Dispatches, Snapshots & Graffiti from La Frontera. He is also a Spanish-to-English translator and a freelance essayist.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents Introduction Part I: Gulf Coast Texas “Phelan’s First Case” by Lisa Sandlin (Beaumont) “Catgirl” by Claudia Smith (Galveston) “Who Stole My Monkey?” by David Corbett & Luis Alberto Urrea (Port Arthur) “Six Dead Cabbies” by Tim Tingle (Ellington AFB)Part II: Back Roads Texas “Luck” by James Crumley (Crumley, Texas) “Preacher’s Kid” by Jessica Powers (Andrews) “Six-Finger Jack” by Joe R. Lansdale (Gladewater) “Duckweed” by George Wier (Littlefield) “Cherry Coke” by Milton T. Burton (Tyler) Part III: Big City Texas “Montgomery Clift” by Sarah Cortez (Houston) “Moral Hazard” by Jesse Sublett (Austin) “Bottomed Out”by Dean James (Dallas) “Crank” by Ito Romo (San Antonio) “The Dead Man’s Wife” by Bobby Byrd (El Paso)