If you're in the Philadelphia area, there's still time to register for all or part of NoirCon 2010, held primarily at the Society Hill Playhouse, 507 South 8th Street.
There are panels and events through Sunday, including Friday's "Pornography in Noir Fiction," a panel with Reed F. Coleman, Jay Gertzman and Christa Faust; Philadelphia Noir celebrating the anthology with authors Meredith Anthony, Keith Gilman, Dennis Tafoya, Jim Zervanos, Duane Swierczynski and Carlin Romano; an interview of George Pelecanos by Laura Lippman; "Noir Poetry" by Daniel Hoffman, Robert Polito and Ed Pettit; and "Writers on Noir" with Vicki Hendricks, Reed Farrel Coleman, William Heffernan, Seth Harwood with Cameron Ashley (Crime Factory).
Saturday and Sunday highlights include "Through a Rearview Darkly: A Revisionist History of Noir" by Megan Abbott and Anthony Neil Smith; and a panel with authors in Damn Near Dead 2: Live Noir or Die Trying! (from Busted Flush Press), including Patti Abbott, Scott Cupp, Christa Faust, Scott Phillips, S.J. Rozan and Reed F. Coleman.
The keynote address will be given on Saturday by playwright Joan Schenkar, biographer of Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Miss Highsmith), who told the Philadelphia Inquirer (in answer to what makes a noir writer?), "The noir author is someone who is compelled to walk always on the dark side of the street, looking for answers that are not there to questions that are barely formulable, articulating the very interesting American obsession with murder and with what murder does for you."
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