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Date: June, 5 2018
Join Santa Cruz Noir contributor Lou Matthews at the UCLA Writer’s Program Publication Party.
Date: October, 28 2016
Festival de la Palabra and the Loisaida Center present: San Juan Noir – A Reading and Book Signing Celebration Featuring Johnny Temple, Mayra Santos Febres, Charlie Vázquez, Wilfredo Burgos Matos, Manuel Méndez, Tere Dávila The fifteen stories compiled in San Juan Noir have been published in both Spanish and English editions and feature authors such […]
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I’m driving over the Francis R. Buono Memorial Bridge for the nine hundredth time (figuring once a week, four times a month, times twelve months, times eighteen years). The bridge connects the Queens mainland to Rikers Island, which is floating in the East River and a mere hundred yards off the runways of LaGuardia Airport. Rikers Island is the main New York City jail, housing 12,000 or more inmates at any given time, depending on how tough on crime the NYPD chooses to be. Rikers Island is America’s largest penal colony, a city of rolling razor wire far as the eye can see. I’m en route there because I’m a lawyer assigned by the Criminal Courts to defend a fellow who claims to be “indigent” (no dough to hire a lawyer), so he gets me, whom the inmates call “an 18-B” (short for the section of the County Law), as distinguished from “a real, paid lawyer,” whom they’d hire if they could. I pay no mind; I’ve heard it all before . . .
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Date: July, 2 2023
Noir at the Bar: Austin Noir featuring Scott Montgomery and others