Born in the despair of the great depression, flourishing in the first radioactive blush of the nuclear age, noir really is more a sensibility than a style, and the tenth issue of Black Clock operates on the premise that twenty-first century noir is a mutated thing that still bears kinship with the luridness and strange grace of the original.
Singular, idiosyncratic and a little mysterious, Black Clock is one of America's leading literary journals.
Issue— #10
- David LehmanWitness To A Murder
- Diana WagmanThe Five Elements Of Noir
- Robert PolitoIt Would Be A Queer World If
- Geoff NicholsonLost Maps, Lost Territories
- T. TowlesRough Ride To Valencia
- Dana SpiottaFirst Is First, Second Is Nobody
- Howard Zazen (as told to Sean Howe)Tower Of Babel
- Lou MathewsBarefoot Saints
- Theodore RossSturtevant Falls
- Brian EvensonThe Moldau Case
- Alison TurnerOracle Bones
- Iris SeymourCherry On Top
- Emily WhiteThe Romance
- Scott BradfieldGoodbye Lately
- Lisa TeasleyJoie De Vivre
- Denise HamiltonWoman In White
- Howard A. RodmanThe Double-Goer
- Michael VenturaOne Marilyn Too Many
- Francesca Lia BlockFarewell, My Zombie
- David LazarAside