Noir Takes Manhattan, Muppet-Style!

New Yorkers! We are very pleased to remind you that Richmond Noir will be appearing at Manhattan's KGB Bar THIS THURSDAY, APRIL 29 from 7:00-9:00 pm. Readers will include Clay McLeod Chapman, Tom De Haven, Conrad Ashley Persons, Hermine Pinson, and David L. Robbins. Editor Andrew Blossom and contributor X.C. Atkins will also be on hand, and a book signing is sure to follow. It's a real honor to bring this book to New York, home base of Akashic Books, and especially to KGB, where we have attended many readings we've loved! Here's hoping you can come out, have a drink, and listen to some strange tales from the River City! Tell your friends!

Brooklyn Rules with Chapman

In anticipation of the Richmond Noir reading at New York City's KGB Bar next week (see the event listing here), the literary blog Vol. 1 Brooklyn. Has put up an excerpt from "The Battle of Belle Isle," by contributor Clay McLeod Chapman. Our thanks to the folks at Vol. 1 Brooklyn and Akashic Books for the idea! If you like the story, please come see us at KGB NEXT THURS, APR 29 from 7:00-9:00 PM. Clay will be reading alongside fellow contributors Tom De Haven, Conrad Ashley Persons, Hermine Pinson, and David L. Robbins, while contributor X.C. Atkins and editors Andrew Blossom and Brian Castleberry will also be on hand to sign books. Hope to see you there!

Edgar Allan Poe Museum! Thursday, April 22!

It's our honor to present Richmond Noir at the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, VA tomorrow (Thursday, April 22) from 6:00-9:00 pm! Readers will include contributors Pir Rothenberg, whose "The Rose Red Vial" is set among Poe afficionadoes, and Clint McCown, whose "The Apprentice" was inspired in part by Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." Editors Andrew Blossom, Brian Castleberry, and Tom De Haven will also be on hand. Reception will start at 6:00, with the reading itself tol start around 7:00, and a book signing will follow. Hope to see you there!

Noir At VCU: Tonight!

Richmond Noir will appear tonight at 7:00 pm in the Richmond Salons of the VCU Student Commons (907 Floyd Avenue, RVA, 23284). Readers will include Noir contributors (and VCU alumni!) X.C. Atkins, Dennis Danvers, Pir Rothenberg, and Anne Thomas Soffee! Editors Andrew Blossom, Brian Castleberry, and Tom De Haven will also be on hand. A book signing will follow.

So come on out! Unless you have to skip class. That we can't advocate. Although if you wanna...

Noir Visits Fredericksburg

Good news, everybody! Richmond Noir will appear at the Griffin Bookshop & Coffee Bar in Fredericksburg, VA THIS SATURDAY, APRIL 17 from 2:00-4:00 pm. Guests will include contributors Dennis Danvers and Howard Owen, plus editor Tom De Haven, who will be reading for the first time from his piece, "Playing with DaBlonde." Of course, editors Andrew Blossom and Brian Castleberry will be in attendance, and all of the above will gladly sign books following the reading.

Fredericksburg's Free Lance-Star recently ran a nice review of Richmond Noir in their pages. You can check out that piece here. (Here's a quick correction: there were three editors on the book, not one! It says so on the cover!)

Noir Across America

This week, the lads of Richmond Noir will be reppin' the book in two different cities!

Editor Andrew Blossom will be at the AWP Conference in Denver, CO with his magazine Makeout Creek. You can find their table on the bookfair floor throughout the conference. On Wednesday, April 7, at 7:30 pm -- i.e., tonight -- Makeout Creek will also cohost an event with the literary journal diode at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts's Jones Theatre. Readers will include Abaymi Animashaun, Mary Biddinger, Kara Candito, Tarfia Faizullah, Anna Journey, Cynthia Lotze, Sabrina Orah Mark, Clint McCown, Karyna McGlynn, Joshua Poteat, Nate Slawson, Mathias Svalina, Allison Titus, and G.C. Waldrep. What's all this got to do with Richmond Noir? Copies of the book will be for sale at both the reading and the bookfair.



What about Richmond itself? As previously noted here, editors Brian Castleberry and Tom De Haven will be signing copies of Richmond Noir alongside contributor X.C. Atkins at the Barnes & Noble in Short Pump on Saturday, April 10, from 1-3 pm. Around the mall this weekend? Come out and say hello!

Whoops! RE: B&N Signing Location

Well, we had some bad information. Today's Richmond Noir signing (with the editors and Dennis Danvers) is at the Barnes & Noble Chesterfield Town Centre at 11500 Midlothian Turnpike. In other words, a whole different Barnes & Noble than we'd been reporting. Yikes! Sorry for any confusion, and hope to see you there!

Signing This Saturday

Contributor Dennis Danvers will join editors Andrew Blossom, Brian Castleberry, and Tom De Haven to sign copies of Richmond Noir at the Barnes and Noble Commonwealth Centre this Saturday, April 3, from 2-4 pm. Live on the Southside? Come by and say hello!