Connor Coyne

Let’s get Biblio Graphic: I’ve just completed a highly-informal annotated bibliography for Hungry Rats. It includes sources and commentary for research I conducted in five key areas: Michigan’s lumber era; Flint, Michigan; Serial Homicide; Noir; and Other Sources. Let me know what you think!

Click here for the bibliography.

Bibliography keyword list: hungry rats, bibliography, michigan lumber, noir, serial homicide, flint, michigan, tom powers, michigan rogues desperados cut-throats, stuart gross, frankie and the barons, william crowe, lumberjack, john fitzmaurice, the shanty boy, e.c. beck, they knew paul bunyan, forrest meek, michigan’s timber battleground, michigan history, harrison, clare, flint journal, picture history of flint, alice lethbridge, rivethead, ben hamper, michael moore, david halberstam, the reckoning, stephen dandaneau, deindustrialization, rhonda sanders, bronze pillars, gary flinn, remembering flint michigan, gordon young, incredible shrinking american city, sloan museum, flint and the american dream, flint broadside, flint uncommon sense, harold schechter, serial killer files, joseph fisher, killer among us, collector, john fowles, i was dora suarez, derek raymond, robin cook, felicia’s journey, summer of sam, young poisoner’s handbook, michael newton, bad girls do it, michigan murders, edward keyes, robert polito, american noir, paul duncan, noir fiction, dark highways, brick, veronica mars, teen noir, twin peaks, chicago noir, detroit noir, tartan noir, denise mina, garnethill, catherine orenstein, little red riding hood, heinrich heine, samuel taylor coleridge, radiohead, kid a, amnesiac, hail to the thief, outkast, atliens

Death followed him from a very young age.

They first glimpsed each other in the early 80s, when he was walking back home to his house on Devils Lake. Someone started shooting, and a stray bullet missed his head by about a foot.

Out of work a decade later, he joined the Army and was promptly shipped off to Iraq. That time, he took a bullet in the leg, which probably kept him from stepping on the landmine that got the guy to his side.

When he got home, things settled down for a bit. He got a job at Angelo’s Coney Island and worked with dignity even though his coworkers walked with bile and muttered racist epithets under their breath. He was a favorite among the customers. His smiles were never strained, but frank, and he seemed made for the night shift, still on-stride as the sun came up. It wasn’t a paradise, no, not by a long shot, but it was a pause. A draw your breath in deep and let it out still and smooth. Outside Angelo’s in the midnight and summer, you heard crickets.

Death finally caught up with him in the mid-2000s. No bullets. No landmines. A heart attack. It was instantaneous. Maybe he was genetically predisposed. Or maybe someone so wrapped in beatitudes is just the most provisional of guests in our world.

Starting today.

That is all.

Lesa Quade from Flint Talk Radio‘s Flaminpit Show is going to be interviewing me about Hungry Rats.

Flint Talk Radio

http://flinttalkradio.com

Thursday, February 17 · 2:15pm – 3:00pm EST

Lesa Quade hosts the Flaminpit Show for Flint Talk Radio.  It is an eclectic forum where many subjects are discussed. Recent guests have included Flint Mayoral Candidate Kayamone Sutton and Youth Advocate Kenyetta Dotson.

Connor will be making a special trip to Flint for this interview. The studio is located in the Eastside’s State Street district, a couple blocks from the house where Meredith Malady lives.

We hope you’ll tune in for what we’re sure will be a wide ranging and exciting discussion.

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For more info: http://hungryrats.com/

Check it! I’m going to be doing a reading from my novel Hungry Rats at the best bookstore in Chicago’s Wicker Park!

Quimby’s Bookstore
1854 W. North Ave
Chicago, IL
Saturday, February 5 · 7:00pm – 8:00pm

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