The Night, the City, and Miss Thing

With a wink to dime-store pulp fiction and film noir, award-winning author Angela Carole Brown’s novelette THE NIGHT, THE CITY, AND MISS THING is, in a way, a love letter to Los Angeles. It follows the adventures of Elvis Schoenberg’s Orchestre Surreal (a real-life Los Angeles orchestra that Angela has fronted as lead singer, under the moniker The Fabulous Miss Thing, for over two decades). The Orchestre Surreal is a deranged-seductive-Felliniesque-German-Expressionist-John-Waters-circus-of-a-wild-ride, and THE NIGHT, THE CITY, AND MISS THING is no less a wayward midnight odyssey of playful mood, mystery, and shadow, as it unfolds the antics of femme fatale Miss Thing, conductor Elvis Schoenberg, and ultimate fighting champion turned opera singer Dangerous Dan. Read it if you dare, Palooka.