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

So I actually created the following before posting yesterday’s “poetic interpretation.”  Yes, it is another Friday parody, but this one was put together using all of the recorded footage from the Hungry Rats promotional shoots.  What do you think?  I like how it turned out.  All I ask is that, if it makes you laugh just once, consider sharing it!

Starting today.

That is all.

It’s been a big week already for Hungry Rats, with two of our biggest events in the last six months breaking over two days.

First, the book has been the subject of front-page Sunday coverage for the Flint Journal, Genesee County’s main newspaper with a readership of almost 230,000.  It’s hard to overstate how significant this is for the future of the novel, although I would happily have written the book for greater obscurity without overhanging violence and tragedy.  You can read the whole piece here: Flint native wrote novel before serial stabbings with eerie coincidences related to Abuelazam case.

“Coyne, who has a master’s degree in creative writing, crafted a novel sparked by that image about a teenage girl from a dysfunctional family who runs away from home in pursuit of the serial killer dubbed “The Rat Man.””

Second, Hungry Rats has been reviewed for the first issue of the Cleveland Review, and it was a juicy review at that.  You can read it in its entirety here: Hungry Rats by Connor Coyne.

“Hungry Rats is a murder mystery that imparts not only the eerie feeling that the reader is being watched — or is on trial for a crime she may or may not have committed — but also suggests that she is trapped in an increasingly macabre Choose Your Own Adventure.”

I don’t know if the rest of the week can possibly live up to the excitement of the first two days.  Although with my reading coming up at Quimby’s Bookstore in Chicago this Saturday, I’m going to give it my best shot!

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Photo of the Flint Journal building provided by The Flint Journal.

Cover of the Cleveland Review provided by The Cleveland Review.

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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