City of Brotherly Darkness?

Following the success earlier this year of GoodisCon, which gathered writers and readers together in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to pay homage to noir novelist David Goodis (Dark Passage, The Wounded and the Slain) on the 40th anniversary of his death, a couple of that event’s organizers are now putting together something called NoirCon. It will be held next year, also in Philly, and according to its in-development Web site, will be a “celebration of Noir--past, present and future. We will present Noir in its many guises (and/or disguises)--writing, art, film, architecture, history, music, theater, etc.” The event is being scheduled for April 3 through 6.

For (slightly) more information about all of this, click here.

(Hat tip to Independent Crime.)

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Meanwhile, Peter Rozovsky from Detectives Beyond Borders alerts us to another conference, this one titled Black & Blue: Mediterranean Noir Comes to New York and scheduled for the end of this month. Organized by publisher Europa Editions and in collaboration with PEN World Voices, the event will feature appearances by internationally acclaimed authors Massimo Carlotto, Carlo Lucarelli, Alicia Giménez-Bartlett, and Yasmina Khadra. Black & Blue (April 24-28) is dedicated to the memory of Jean-Claude Izzo (1945-2000), the French poet-novelist most famous for his Marseilles Trilogy, featuring ex-cop Fabio Montale. For more information, click here.