In an article on CrimeReads, Adam Abramowitz, author of Bosstown and A Town Called Malice, laments the gentrification of cities and neighborhoods that have given rise to the greatest noir fiction. What happens when those beautiful, gone-to-seed streets have been yogurt stores and craft brews? “Think about a novel’s character, it’s not the plot that usually comes to mind, it’s the city or region that they covered,” he writes. “We all conjure our own secret maps of these cities, our own stories and scars, but the gentrification of these places threatens to smooth them all out.”
Photo by David Sinclair on Unsplash
Comments