As part of this weekend’s 29 Palms Book Festival, there will be another installment of Mojave Noir, a live reading series celebrating the noir and crime fiction genre to benefit Mil-Tree, our local veteran outreach organization. The show starts at 7PM at the 29 Palms Visitor Center. With more on tonight’s lineup we have Z1077 reporter and host of Mojave Noir Gabriel Hart to give us the incriminating details.
“Noir is a film and literary genre characterized by cynicism, fatalism, and moral ambiguity, featuring characters faced with ‘damned if you do, damned if you don’t scenarios,’ where in the end, even the most well-meaning people end up guilty; their temptations of chemical excess or precarious shortcuts to wealth or notoriety end up biting them back like a green Mojave snake.
Mojave Noir is a reading series featuring local and visiting Southern California crime and noir writers to benefit Mil-Tree, our local veteran outreach. I’m your host, Gabriel Hart. Join me as I start the night with my newest story “Hothead and Flipwig,” a nightmare scenario featuring a “rehabilitated” gangster working the phones for a greedy vacation rental property investor, cold calling local homeowners to trick them into selling for a fraction of what they’re worth, until he calls the wrong guy who’s not only at the end of his rope, but the end of his sanity, staring down the barrel of his gun.
Reading with me is veteran writer Nadia Clark, Brian O’Hare, veteran author of the collection Surrender, Matt Philips, author of A Good Rush of Blood, Grant Wamack, veteran and author of Black Gypsies, and Duncan Birmingham, author of The Cult in My Garage and director of the horror film Who Invited Them?”
Mojave Noir runs from 7-9PM at the 29 Palms Visitor Center with musical accompaniment by multi-instrumentalist Ron Therrio, refreshments provided. $10 suggested donation.
To RSVP:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mojave-noir-tickets-1027089992817
