Passes The Doesn't Suck Test

Publisher's Weekly has a review of Jen Jordan's noir anthology Uncage Me due out in July here (about 2/3 of the way down).

While John Connolly (The Reapers) rightly notes in his introduction that this all-original anthology isn't for the fainthearted, noir lovers will find plenty to savor among the 22 stories from both familiar and unfamiliar names.

Mine would be one of those "unfamiliar names".

I haven't gotten my hands on a copy yet, but I have read Connolly's intro.  It's a hell of a piece of writing on the point of and need for transgressive fiction.   And then some.   I'd buy the book for the intro alone.  The man is clearly more intelligent, eloquent and thought provoking than I will ever be.   I want this man's brain. Like, in my head, not in a jar.

I hear "Why don't you write happy stories?" one more time and I'm whipping that intro out.   And then I'm beating the person who asked with the book.   Wrapped around a 2x4.