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Gary Phillips


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Los Angeles, The United States
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GARY PHILLIPS has been a community activist, labor organizer and delivered dog cages. He’s published various novels, comics, short stories and edited several anthologies including South Central Noir and the Anthony award-winning The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir. Violent Spring, first published in 1994 was named in 2020 one of the essential crime novels of Los Angeles. He was also a writer/co-producer on FX’s Snowfall (streaming on Hulu), about crack and the CIA in 1980s South Central where he grew up. Recent novels include One-Shot Harry and Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of Harlem. He lives with his family in the wilds of Los Angeles.

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Hardboiled Sex

Noiristas Christa Faust, Stephen Jay Schwartz and Craig Faustus Buck explore the, ahem, ins and outs of getting down and dirty under the tickler whip of moderator Gary Phillips.  Short readings will precede the discussion. Not for the faint of heart.


Sunday, March 29, 7-8:30 P.M., The Last Bookstore, 453 S. Spring, L.A., CA 90013

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“The only thing that any of the two-dozen-plus gumshoes could come up with was a photograph of the president smoking a cigarette after telling the country he had quit that habit.”
Gary Phillips, The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir

“Put on some music, honey. Put on some Diz, will you? His music is magic, and you'll please his ghost by invoking it," Kodama said. "You'll need his protection in the days ahead.”
Gary Phillips, Violent Spring

“I think the March on Washington is going to be a watershed event, don’t you?” “Maybe. But crackers digging in their heels to preserve the way of life they like has usually been the response to any forward motion us colored folks have tried.” “That’s kind of cynical, isn’t it?” “Or just a realistic observation.”
Gary Phillips, One-Shot Harry

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