If you enjoy photo books and short fiction, you might like New York: Give Me Your Best or Your Worst Anthology, edited by Elizabeth Crowens. The book features short stories accompanying pictures taken by Crowens. Other contributors include Reed Farrel Coleman, Charles Salzberg, Tom Straw, R.J. Koreto, Steven Van Patten, Randee Dawn, Marco Conelli, and Triss Stein. You can get the hardcover version here or the Kindle version here. As

Please check out my interview with El Abuelo of Puerto Rican Crime Fiction, the author of Carlito’s Way and Q&A, NY Supreme Court Justice Edwin Torres on CrimeReads. Torres turned 90 this year, so we celebrated by discussing his life in Spanish Harlem, his work as a judge, and his excellent novels. Excerpt: Torres’ writing career started while he was still an attorney. He and his wife Vickie had gone