Vinnie Hansen's Blog - Posts Tagged "santa-cruz-noir"
Going Short
Way back, when I was in the graduate writing program at San Francisco State, I had short stories published in the campus literary magazines every semester. This instilled confidence in my writing, but also inflated my ego. I launched into the world thinking I might set the literary world on fire. Instead, after a few years, I realized I needed to eat and went back to school for a teaching credential.
While I still aspired to write books, short stories buoyed me during my teaching career. I could squeeze these manageable bits into my holidays and summers. The manuscripts found homes, won contests, and kept my writing dream . . . .
(To read more, please follow the link to misterio press. See a photo of me circa 1979. Check out the OPI nail polish color Short's Story.)
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While I still aspired to write books, short stories buoyed me during my teaching career. I could squeeze these manageable bits into my holidays and summers. The manuscripts found homes, won contests, and kept my writing dream . . . .
(To read more, please follow the link to misterio press. See a photo of me circa 1979. Check out the OPI nail polish color Short's Story.)
http://misteriopress.com
Black, Black Heart
When Andrew MacRae put out a call for submissions to his noir anthology Black Coffee, he included a link to Peggy Lee’s eponymous song. Up comes a sexy black and white headshot of Peggy Lee circa 1953. Sultry sax plays.
Yes, my heart says, this is noir.
But what is this?
Otto Penzler, in his foreword to The Best American Noir of the Century, writes “noir is not unlike pornography, in the sense that it is virtually impossible to define, but everyone thinks they know it when they see it.”
You know—fedoras, smoky bars, whiskey. Characters who say, “Dollface.” Dark alleys. Brick.
Yet,
(To read more please follow this link to Mysteristas.) https://mysteristas.wordpress.com/201...
Yes, my heart says, this is noir.
But what is this?
Otto Penzler, in his foreword to The Best American Noir of the Century, writes “noir is not unlike pornography, in the sense that it is virtually impossible to define, but everyone thinks they know it when they see it.”
You know—fedoras, smoky bars, whiskey. Characters who say, “Dollface.” Dark alleys. Brick.
Yet,
(To read more please follow this link to Mysteristas.) https://mysteristas.wordpress.com/201...
