Dennis Lehane & Mary Cotton 
Boston Noir 2: The Classics (Akashic Noir) 
The Classics

Boston Noir 2: The Classics is now a
Boston Globe best seller!


‘The contributor list is delightfully quirky…The collection’s unifying element is a deep understanding of Boston’s Byzantine worlds of race and class–as seen terrifyingly in Andre Dubus’s tale of milltown resentment and pampered preppies.’

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Boston Globe


’14 superior selections in this ‘classics’ volume in Akashic’s series of regional dark crime short stories, the works of established writers that have stood the test of time.’

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Publishers Weekly


‘This collection features crime stories that have already been published. But that’s OK when you have the likes of Chuck Hogan, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert B. Parker, Linda Barnes, George V. Higgins, Dennis Lehane, and David Foster Wallace all under the same roof…Followers of Akashic’s long-running Noir series–not to mention, of course, fans of Boston-set crime fiction–should eagerly devour this one.’

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Booklist


‘These stories take place in neighborhoods you know well, and that can drive a reader crazy as well as entice him or her, but the read is worth it.’

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Boston Column , Summer Reading pick


“
Boston Noir 2: The Classics is a thorough representation of what noir has been, is, and continues to become . . . The shadows over Boston are those of Bogart, leaning into the spotlight with that complexity of soul, that derisive navigation of morality and deviance. . . The shadows on this cover prepare the tone, that these thin darknesses can be willed into corruption with little effort, and the reader will learn the ease of giving into it.”

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‘There are few gifts I enjoy more than a box of chocolates. The very best surprise me, each candy layered with unexpected delights that leave me hungry for more. The same may be said of
Boston Noir 2. It’s a collection of dark short stories by names you know, set in places familiar to Bostonians. Edited by Dorchester’s crime fiction king and Hollywood darling, Dennis Lehane…
Boston Noir 2 overflows with stories from some of the best writers of our time…This is the perfect book to open after a long day…The danger, of course, is that at the end of each story, you’ll go for just one more and stay up well past your bedtime. My advice? Indulge.’

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Patriot Ledger


Classic reprints from: Classic short fiction reprints from: George Harrar, George V. Higgins, Dennis Lehane, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert B. Parker, Hannah Tinti, Abraham Verghese, David Foster Wallace, and others.


Dennis Lehane is the author of the Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro mystery series (
A Drink Before the War;
Darkness,
Take My Hand;
Sacred;
Gone, Baby, Gone;
Prayers for Rain; and
Moonlight Mile), as well as
Coronado (five stories and a play) and the award-winning novels
Mystic River,
Shutter Island, and
The Given Day.
Mystic River,
Shutter Island, and
Gone, Baby, Gone have been made into award-winning films. In 2009 he edited the best-selling anthology
Boston Noir for Akashic Books.


Mary Cotton is the pseudonymous author of nine novels for young adults, six of them
New York Times bestsellers. She is also a fiction editor for the literary magazine
Post Road, and is co-editor of No
Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road. She is co-owner of Newtonville Books in Boston, Massachusetts.


Jaime Clarke is the author of the novel
We’re So Famous, editor of
Don’t You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes, and
Conversations with Jonathan Lethem, and co-editor of
No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road. He is a founding editor of
Post Road and has taught creative writing at University of Massachusetts, Boston, and Emerson College. He is co-owner of Newtonville Books in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: Broken Families

“The Marriage Privilege” by Chuck Hogan (West Roxbury)

“Night-Side” by Joyce Carol Oates (Quincy)

“Home Sweet Home” by Hannah Tinti (Route 128)

“Surrogate” by Robert B. Parker (Watertown)

Part II: Criminal Minds

“Mushrooms” by Dennis Lehane (Dorchester)

“Lucky Penny” by Linda Barnes (Beacon Hill)

“Blanche Cleans Up” (excerpt) by Barbara Neely (Brookline)

“The Balance of the Day” by George V. Higgins (Roxbury)

“Bait” (excerpt) by Kenneth Abel (South Boston)

Part III: Voyeurs & Outsiders

“Townies” by Andre Dubus (Merrimack River)
“Driving the Heart” by Jason Brown (Boston General Hospital)

“The 5:22” by George Harrar (Kendall Square)

“Infinite Jest” (excerpt) by David Foster Wallace (Brighton)

“At Night” by David Ryan (Back Bay)

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David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) wrote the novels The Pale King, Infinite Jest, and The Broom of the System, as well as the story collections Oblivion, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and Girl with Curious Hair. His nonfiction includes Consider the Lobster, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, Everything and More, and This Is Water.