This chart is 2013, but the economic divide, between rich and poor, has increased in California, and the housing adjusted poverty rate has climbed to 27%, worse for seniors and children's and minorities. States like California, New York, Florida, Texas--which do not rank as badly using traditional measures-- turn out to have much higher poverty rates, among the worst in the nation, when adjusted for cost of living. There are similar problems, in California, in regards to public schooling. The US government has recently begun to adjust poverty rankings based on cost of living, this you will see conflicting figures from the government itself, between 16 and 27%, with the United way putting the figure in the low 30 percentiles. DS
IN A LONELY PLACE: Dorothy Hughes
CRIME SEGEMENTS takes a backwards glance at both the book and movie, both noir classics, though with very different conceptions of the main character.
"It was good standing there on the promontory overlooking the evening sea, the fog lifting itself like gauze veils to touch his face. There was something in it akin to flying, the sense of being lifted high above crawling earth, of bingprt of th wildnss of sir. Something too of being closed within an unknown and strange world of mist and cloud and wind. He’d liked flying at night; he missed after the way had crashed to and finsih and dribbled to an en. It wasn’t the same fluing a little private create. He’d tried it; it was like returning to the stone ax after precision tools. He had found nothing yet to take the place of flying wild." OPENING PARAGRAPH IN A LONELY PLACE, Dorothy Hughes, 1942. Reissued by The Feminist Press, 2002
DADA BORDELLO
Dada Bordello, penultimate night of Dada World's Fair, Oddfellows Home, San Francisco.
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HITLER ONLY KIDDING ABOUT ANTI-SEMIITISM, NY TIMES, 1922
"Several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-Semitic propaganda as a bait to catch masses of followers and keep them aroused, enthusiastic, and in line for the time when his organization is perfected and sufficiently powerful to be employed effectively for political purposes."
"You can't expect the masses to understand or appreciate your finer real aims. You must feed the masses with cruder morsels and ideas like anti-Semitism. It would be politically all wrong to tell them the truth about where you really are leading them."
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."
SIN SORROCO: PRISON NOIR
.... " a unique voice among crime novelists. She doesn’t write about private eyes and her stories are not plot-driven, but she does pull the reader into the off-kilter lives of women and men living outside mainstream society. Having spent time in California jails and prisons, Soracco is intimately acquainted with milieus like the ones her convict and ex-convict characters inhabit...far from the mostly lily-white preserves of too much U.S. literary fiction." from January Magaine
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"With a down-to-the-bone, spare prose style, so resonant of the American hardboiled noir tradition, and scenes that would not be out of place in a Fellini classic, The White Devil is quite simply perfect in its execution . . .
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FOREWORD REVIEWS: FIVE STARS ON THE WHITE DEVIL
Foreword Reviews Magazine. (Winter Issue, 2016)
The White Devil by Domenic Stansberry
*****Gripping from beginning to end, The White Devil is an unforgettable novel by an author at the height of his powers.
Domenic Stansberry’s thriller The White Devil shows a masterful touch for perspective and character, unspooling a sultry story of passion, revenge, and betrayal that invokes the great age of Italian film noir.In a Rome still under John Paul II, Vicki Wilson’s lovers keep turning up dead. Vittoria, as she’s known in Italy, is a small-time model and actress, recognizable but hard to place. Guided by her delinquent brother, Johnny, Vittoria enters the upper circles of Roman society. Before long, she’s mingling with the high rollers, corrupt senators, and powerful movers. Among them is Paolo Orsini, who quickly claims Vittoria. Too bad he’s married; too bad his wife, an aging film icon, is murdered. Vittoria soon finds herself at the heart of a scandal. Is she innocent, or just turning a blind eye to the facts? Vittoria is a perfect main character. Her beauty allows her to get close to strangers easily. It gives her access to the secret parts of life, the back-room deals. At the same time, she’s strangely opaque, like a mirror that holds light without divulging a reflection. Her brother, though fiercely protective of her, is possessive. He brokers her relationships, nudging her into the bedrooms of the rich and powerful. As Vittoria follows Johnny’s guidance, normal life falls away and is replaced by the surreal. She’s unsure of whom to trust, and even questions her own motives. Stansberry keeps this thriller centered by pinning his characters to Italy’s timeless hills: “Tuscany spread out in front of us, beautiful, ancient. The landscape had a runic quality, like a puzzle waiting to be solved.” The cinematic cliffs, beaches, and architecture contrast with the violence that lingers, like a cloud, around Vittoria. When she’s able to finally see through it, she has two choices: feign ignorance, or take revenge of her own. Gripping from beginning to end, The White Devil is an unforgettable novel by an author at the height of his powers. CLAIRE FOSTER
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