.AkashicBooks brings its crime-fiction anthology series to bloody up our changing metropolis.
is edited by three Austinites – Hopeton Hay, Scott Montgomery, and Molly Odintz – and brings stories set throughout our increasingly unfair city, offering modern tales of turpitude and treachery from Ace Atkins, Amy Gentry, Jeff Abbott, Alexandra Burt, and others.
"I pitched it to Ibrahim Ahmad," said Odintz,"but he left for [Viking Books] right after he accepted it, so we were mostly working with [Akashic Books founder] Johnny Temple."Diverse Voices Book Review"There's two ways to do that," said Montgomery."You can put out a kind of cattle call, saying send us your stories, but we went the other way."
"I was looking at people who'd been on my book show before," Hay told us."I wanted to make sure there was a diverse view of Austin, different perspectives. Because, when you move to Austin and you write about it, there's a tendency to pitch one story of Austin: It's the Live Music Capital of the World and it's weird."
"One of the things I think about," said Odintz,"with the intersection of crime fiction and the criminal justice system? It's complicated, because we don't want crime fiction to justify the excesses of mass incarceration. On the other hand, I also think crime fiction is one of the best ways to explore American capitalism in general – because we're resistant to the money novel in a way that we didn't used to be.
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