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Excerpt From Sunshine Noir II: My Days at the Door
Editor's Note: We'll be publishing excerpts from Sunshine/Noir II: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana, an anthology of local writing about San Diego over the coming weeks, starting with the chapters...
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Excerpt from Sunshine/Noir II: Samsay on the Porch
Editor's Note: We'll be publishing excerpts from Sunshine/Noir II: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana, an anthology of local writing about San Diego over the coming weeks, starting with the chapters...
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Excerpt From Sunshine/Noir II: The Rock – Resistance Barrio Logan Style
By Brent E. Beltran Juanito held the rock firmly in his hand—almost too firmly, as his knuckles turned white from the pressure. He stood there shaking, and tears slowly fell from his reddened eyes. A...
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Excerpt From Sunshine/Noir II: A Continuing Exploration of Literary San Diego...
The Story of How a Small Working-Class Coastal Community Within San Diego Spoiled the Establishment’s Plans and in the Process Created a Revolution in Urban Planning. By Frank Gormlie It was early...
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Excerpt From Sunshine/Noir II: A Revolution In Urban Planning, Part II
The Story of How a Small Working-Class Coastal Community Within San Diego Spoiled the Establishment’s Plans and in the Process Created a Revolution in Urban Planning. While it participated deeply in...
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Excerpts From Sunshine/Noir II: Excavating San Diego Noir — A Jumping-Off Place
In Mike Davis’s seminal discussion of noir in City of Quartz he defines the genre as “a fantastic convergence of American ‘tough-guy’ realism, Weimar expressionism, and existentialized Marxism—all...
View ArticleExcerpt From Sunshine/Noir II: From the Border to the Fields
By Juanita Lopez It is the year of 2014 and both of my grandparents are very old but alive, though suffering from dementia. I decided to pay them a visit to interview them. Believe it or not, they...
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Excerpt From Sunshine/Noir II: Livin’ La Vida Logan
Barrio Logan is one of the oldest neighborhoods in San Diego. It used to be one whole community called Logan Heights, named after congressman John A. Logan, but the creation of the Interstate 5 freeway...
View ArticleExcerpt From Sunshine/Noir II: San Ysidro Blues — 30 Years After the Massacre
By Francisco J. Bustos I remember playing on the kitchen floor when the shots started firing. I remember my cousin and I running outside the apartment, like many others did. The sound of bullets...
View ArticleExcerpt From Sunshine/Noir II: Refugees, Late Summer Night
By Steve Kowit Woke with a start, the dogs barking out by the fence, yard flooded with light. Groped my way to the window. Out on the road a dozen quick figures hugging the shadows: bundles slung at...
View ArticleExcerpt From Sunshine/Noir II: The Future of Post-Bordernity
The wall is the materialized representation of this idea of a border. In English people call it a “fence” and in the U.S. that fence means “defense”; something that in American minds brings protection....
View ArticleExcerpt From Sunshine/Noir II: Living and Working In Poverty
Grim Reality in "America’s Finest City" By Susan Duerksen “Living in poverty” is one of those shorthand terms that rolls easily off the tongues of news anchors and politicians before they turn to the...
View ArticleExcerpt From Sunshine/Noir II: Coming Into San Diego
By Jimmy Santiago Baca How stunning the morning desert was to Vito. His heart burst with pleasure and a desire for his childhood days when the sun radiated one tiny ray of faith on his life, a ray that...
View ArticleExcerpt From Sunshine/Noir II: At the Chargers Game
By Mario Lewis “In the mid- to early ’70s my sister and I went to a Chargers game with my father. We (are) actually Raiders fans. My father, is a nice—nice-size man with some nice-size arms and...
View ArticleExcerpt From Sunshine/Noir II: The Civil Disobedient
By Michael Billingsley The morning of January 15, 1976 started out just like any other in the Skyline neighborhood of southeast San Diego, but there were two special things that set this day apart. For...
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