De Haven Pulls a Fast One

Tom De Haven, Richmond Noir editor (and author of Our Hero: Superman on Earth, pictured above), has a review in the New York Times's Sunday Book Review this weekend! Entitled "Mean Boys," the piece covers the new book Elliot Allagash, by Simon Rich. You should check it out, because it's a great article. Plus, perhaps more importantly, Tom's managed to sneak the words "Richmond" and "Noir" into the Times via his author's bio! Huzzah! We knew we'd get there some day...

Noir Makes Sense!

Al Harris of the website Richmond Biz Sense posted an article yesterday about the local response to Richmond Noir, which led immediately to a spike in same-day sales at Chop Suey Books! Talk about synergy! Our thanks to Al. Why don't y'all head on over to Richmond Biz Sense and check it out?

Gallery 5 Reading (This Weds!) Gets Poster

Check out the killer poster designed by Spencer Hansen of Team 8 for the Richmond Noir reading at Gallery 5! (Click the image above to enlarge.) It's all happening THIS WEDS, MAY 12, 7:00 PM, with readers Mina Beverly, Conrad Ashley Persons, David L. Robbins, and Meagan J. Saunders! Also on hand: editors Andrew Blossom, Brian Castleberry, and Tom De Haven, and contributors X.C. Atkins, Laura Browder, and Anne Thomas Soffee! With a cash bar, and the above signing books! Sponsored by Chop Suey Books and River City Reads!

Getting Yet Internetier...

Good people of the blogger.com blogosphere, we've just come across this sympathetic posting, written by a friend of Richmond Noir contributor Conrad Ashley Persons. The piece begins as a notice for our Gallery Five reading on WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, but turns into an evaluation of our presence on Facebook and in this here very blog. And we come off as okay! What a relief!

Thanks very much to Publishing Evolution for the kind attention!

CHOP SUEY BOOKS & RIVER CITY READS present RICHMOND NOIR at GALLERY FIVE!

Chop Suey Books is partnering with River City Reads to present Richmond Noir at Gallery Five! Come help us celebrate the selection of Richmond Noir, from Akashic Books, as the first entry in River City Reads, Richmond's new citywide book club!

WEDS, MAY 12, 7:00 PM
Gallery Five, 200 W Marshall, RVA

Readers will include Richmond Noir contributors Mina Beverly ("Gaia"), Tom De Haven ("Playing with DaBlonde"), Conrad Ashley Persons ("Marco's Broken English"), David L. Robbins ("Homework") and Meagan J. Saunders ("Untitled")!

ALSO: editors Andrew Blossom, Brian Castleberry and Tom De Haven, and contributors X.C. Atkins ("A Late-Night Fishing Trip"), Laura Browder ("The Heart is a Strange Muscle") and Anne Thomas Soffee ("Midnight at the Oasis"), on hand to answer questions and sign copies of the book! PLUS music and a cash bar, courtesy of our kind hosts at Gallery Five! We hope to see you there!

For more information about Richmond Noir, River City Reads, Chop Suey Books, and Gallery Five, please visit the links aboce. The River City Reads program is a creation of the Frontier Project. The River City Reads/Richmond Noir poster is designed by Spencer Hansen of Team 8.