Boston Noir 2: The Classics

Dennis Lehane: 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: 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 coeditor of No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road. She is coowner of Newtonville Books, an independent bookstore in Boston.Jaime Clarke: 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, 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 UMASS-Boston and Emerson College. He is coowner of Newtonville Books, an independent bookstore in Boston.