About Weight Less Than Shadow
Setting: The Golden Gate bridge sometime in the near future. An innocent stroll on a sunny Sunday afternoon turns into something more... much more. The story is featured in San Francisco Noir, a hard-biting collection of tales exploring the shadowy nether regions of scenic "Baghdad by the Bay." In this superb collection, virtuosos of the genre meet up with the best of S.F.'s literary fiction community to chart a unique psycho-geography for a dark landscape.
From inner city boroughs to the outlands, each contributor offers an original story based in a distinct neighborhood. At times brutal, darkly humorous, and revelatory -- the stories speak of a hidden San Francisco, a town where the fog is but a prelude to darker realities lingering beneath.
Purchase San Francisco Noir (at akashicbooks.com).
 About the Author
Jim Nisbet has published eight novels. Six of them -- The Gourmet (aka The Damned Don't Die), Lethal Injection, Death Puppet, Prelude to a Scream, The Price of the Ticket and The Syracuse Codex -- have been published in French as well as English, with an additional miscellany of translations into German, Japanese, Italian, and, forthcoming, Russian and Polish. A seventh novel, Ulysses' Dog, has been published in French only, under the title Le Chien d'Ulysse, by (as with all of the French translations) Editions Payot et Rivages (Paris). An eighth novel was published by Rivages as Sombre Complice in November 2005, which Dennis McMillan Publications (Tucson) will issue as Dark Companion in April 2006. Editions Payot et Rivages will publish Jim's ninth novel, How I Got Work, in November 2006.
Nisbet has also published five volumes of poetry: Poems for a Lady, Morpho (with Alastair Johnston), Gnachos for Bishop Berkeley, Small Apt (with photographs by Shelly Vogel), and Across the Tasman Sea. Two "audio narratives" -- stories told via sound effects -- have been issued under the title The Visitor. And innumerable individual poems, essays, stories and excerpts have appeared in nearly as many newspapers, magazines and anthologies. Nisbet has twice won the Pangolin Papers Annual Fiction Award, and thrice been nominated by that magazine for the Pushcart Prize in short fiction.
Aside from reading and performing his own work for nearly forty years, Nisbet has written and seen produced a modest handful of one-act plays and monologues, including Valentine, Note from Earth, WonderEndz SmackVision and Alas, Poor Yorick, and himself directed the original productions of most of these works. Furthermore, he has sunk but thrice to teaching "Creative Writing" -- with course titles such as Anecdotal Fiction: The Novelist at Work, and Exposition and the Schizophrenic Detail: Arbitrating Fact and Fiction -- at the Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, in Boulder, Colorado.
Visit Jim Nisbet's web site (at noirconeville.com).
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