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A review by nicka
Portland Noir by Kevin Sampsell, Megan Kruse, Zoe Trope, Jess Walter, Monica Drake, Dan DeWeese, Kimberly Warner-Cohen, Jamie S. Rich, Floyd Skloot, Karen Karbo, Justin Hocking, Gigi Little, Luciana Lopez, Jonathan Selwood, Chris A. Bolton, Ariel Gore, Bill Cameron
5.0
I interviewed Monica Drake for a zine I worked on. I didn't really know what I was doing, but she was good humored and gracious. Haven't run across anything by her since Clown Girl.
Loved it. No surprise, there is something particularly sexy about Monica Drake's lushy characters. They nurse red beers and always keep at arm's length. The rest: classic noir with distinctive Northwest attributes. Raymond Chandler's dark alleys and long shadows have streams of water coming down from the spouts. The dark, burnt coffe is a frothy latte. The blue grey tobacco smoke is smoke of high grade marijuana, sweet and earthy and musty, sucked from glass pipes. The body floating in the river is a lesbian artist. The hard boiled, hard drinking detective must catch a band of anarchists running amok. Makes me crave a hand rolled cigarette and a shot of bourbon.
Loved it. No surprise, there is something particularly sexy about Monica Drake's lushy characters. They nurse red beers and always keep at arm's length. The rest: classic noir with distinctive Northwest attributes. Raymond Chandler's dark alleys and long shadows have streams of water coming down from the spouts. The dark, burnt coffe is a frothy latte. The blue grey tobacco smoke is smoke of high grade marijuana, sweet and earthy and musty, sucked from glass pipes. The body floating in the river is a lesbian artist. The hard boiled, hard drinking detective must catch a band of anarchists running amok. Makes me crave a hand rolled cigarette and a shot of bourbon.