[Boston Noir 02] • The Classics

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.