Chris Chambers Noir

January 2026: On this month's episode of Chris Chambers Noir, a panel of four writers will test what you consider to be Sounthern Noir. "What is the next evolutionary step of one of crime fiction’s original forms?" asks our host, Christopher Chambers, the award-winning author of dozens of books, short stories, and, most recently, the bestselling Dickie Cornish series. Don't miss it!

Authors, pictured: Scott Von Doviak (top left), Bobby Matthews (top right), Wes Browne (bottom left), James D.F. Hannah (bottom right) read more...

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December 2025: "On this month's episode of Chris Chambers Noir, these two psychological thriller writers will make you understand the meaning of noir," says our host Christopher Chambers, the award-winning author of dozens of books, short stories, and most recently the bestselling Dickie Cornish series.

Meet our guests: Tracy Clark and Christina Kovac

Tracy Clark says: I was born in Chicago, the greatest city ever. It must be so, because I’m still here, loving the seasons, cursing the heat, shivering through frigid winters, complaining endlessly about the humidity. But none of it seriously enough to prompt me to pack up and move someplace else. read more...

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About Christa Faust: A native of New York City, Crista grew up in the Bronx and Hell’s Kitchen. She’s been making stuff up her whole life, and spent most of her teen years on endless subway rides, cutting school and scribbling stories. When she turned 18, she worked in the Times Square peep booths and later as a fetish model and professional Dominatrix. She sold her first short story when she moved to Los Angeles in the early 90s. After nearly 30 years in her beloved adopted city, she is currently living out her third act in the Pacific Northwest. read more...

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Are you ready for a little Street Whys grit to get you going today? You are going to love Chris's interview with Gary Phillips, a community activist and labor organizer who delivered dog cages. He’s published various novels, comics, short stories, and edited several anthologies, including Orange County Noir and the award-winning The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir. Violent Spring, first published in 1994, was named in 2020 as one of the essential crime novels of Los Angeles. He was a senior story editor on FX’s Snowfall, about crack and the CIA in 1980s South Central, where he grew up. read more...

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Are you ready for a little Street Whys grit to get you going today? In Ep1 of bestselling noir author Chris Chambers' new show, Chris Chambers Noir, you'll learn what motivated this Washington, D.C. native to write more than 16 books, and counting!

In today's interview with Hope Katz Gibbs, producer of InkandescentRadio.com, she asks Chris:

Tell us about your day job and the work you are doing as the chair of the International Conflict Resolution Center, and General Counsel to a not-for-profit benefiting HBCUs What inspired you to start writing? Your first book, Sympathy for the Devil, was published on Sept. 11, 2001 — a crazy day to publish a thriller! It's part of your first series featuring FBI Special Agent Angela Bivens. Tell us about those books. You've written a bunch of books for Marvel including Captain America: The Shield of Sam Wilson and Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda. How did you land that gig, and what is it like to write for the mega-hit comic book publisher? What are you working on now? We met at your book event at Elaine's Literay Salon in April 2025 and in the audience was your beautiful and equally successful wife. Tell us about her and your family here in DC. This is Ep1 of your new show on InkandescentRadio.com with the video version appearing on our YouTube channel, Chris Chambers TV. Share with our audience what you have planned for the show, and who we'll be meeting in Ep2! About Chris: A Washington, D.C. native, Chris is a lecturer at Georgetown University, Chair of the International Conflict Resolution Center and is General Counsel to a not-for-profit benefitting HBCUs: Student Housing of America. He is the author of the Angela Bivens thriller series for Random House, The Rocket Crockett pulp noir series, and Black Pulp for Prose-Press, and editor, along with Gary Phillips, of The Darker Mask graphic short story collection, the Bronze Buckaroo Rides Again: Honoring Harlem's Herb Jeffries. He was a finalist in 2008 for the PEN/Malamud Short Story Award for “Leviathan.” read more...

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May 2025: In "Street Whys," the newest novel by award-winning noir author Christopher Chambers, we again meet Washington, DC’s notorious detective, former street denizen Dickie Cornish, who faces off with bloodthirsty cops and the justice department. Underground detective Dickie Cornish faces a vindictive murder rap from his past if he doesn’t agree to help prove that the fentanyl ravaging the streets of DC is bankrolled by shadowy donors of a certain former president. Broke and desperate, Cornish soon finds himself on a collision course with shady public defenders and corrupt police officers, forcing him to use his street connections to flip their plan. Or die. read more...

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