Sep
23
1:30am
Gary Phillips, Tananarive Due, and Jervey Tervalon discuss SOUTH CENTRAL NOIR
By Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore
GARY PHILLIPS has published novels, comics, and short stories, and edited numerous anthologies. VIOLENT SPRING, first published in 1994, was named one of the essential crime novels of Los Angeles. CULPRITS, a linked anthology he coedited, has been optioned as a British miniseries, and he was a staff writer on FX’s SNOWFALL about crack and the CIA in 1980s South Central, where he grew up.
TANANARIVE DUE is an American Book Award–winning author who teaches Black horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She has published several books including the novels MY SOUL TO KEEP and THE GOOD HOUSE, and the collection GHOST SUMMER: STORIES. She was an executive producer on Shudder’s HORROR NOIRE: A HISTORY OF BLACK HORROR. She and husband Steven Barnes cowrote an episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE for Jordan Peele and two segments in Shudder’s HORROR NOIRE anthology film.
JERVEY TERVALONwas born in New Orleans, raised in Los Angeles, and got his MFA in creative writing from UC, Irvine. He is the author of six books including UNDERSTAND THIS, for which he won the Quality Paperback Book Club’s New Voices Award. Currently he is the executive director of Literature for Life, an educational advocacy organization, and creative director of the Pasadena LitFest. His latest novel is MONSTER’S CHEF.
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