Portland Noir - Kevin Sampsell [0]
Published by Akashic Books
© 2009 Akashic Books
Series concept by Tim McLoughlin and Johnny Temple
Portland map by Sohrab Habibion
ePUB ISBN-13: 978-1-936-07043-5
ISBN-13: 978-1-933354-79-8
Library of Congress Control Number: 2008937354
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
PART I: BLOODLINES
KAREN KARBO S.E. Twenty-Eighth Avenue
The Clown and Bard
LUCIANA LOPEZ St. Johns
Julia Now
ARIEL GORE Clinton
Water under the Bridge
FLOYD SKLOOT Oaks Bottom
Alzheimer’s Noir
DAN DEWEESE Highway 30
The Sleeper
PART II: CROOKS & COPS
JONATHAN SELWOOD Mount Tabor
The Wrong House
MONICA DRAKE Legacy Good
Baby, I’m Here Samaritan Hospital
BILL CAMERON Seven Corners
Coffee, Black
JAMIE S. RICH & JOËLLE JONES Montgomery Park
Gone Doggy Gone
JESS WALTER Pearl District
Virgo
CHRIS A. BOLTON Powell’s City of Books
The Red Room
PART III: DESOLATION CITY
JUSTIN HOCKING Burnside Skatepark
Burnside Forever
ZOE TROPE S.E. Eighty-Second Avenue
Hummingbird
GIGI LITTLE Old Town
Shanghaied
MEGAN KRUSE Powell Boulevard
Lila
KIMBERLY WARNER-COHEN Sandy Boulevard
People Are Strange
About the Contributors
INTRODUCTION
CRIME AND UNREST IN UTOPIA
I wonder how people think of Portland from the outside. Is it a hippie haven where everyone reads Ken Kesey and hangs out at open mike night? Is it the gray, grungy, junkie-riddled streets of early Gus Van Sant movies? A cheap, trendy town full of myopic record