Daniel Polansky is a writer, baker, and advocate for the unhoused. He lives in Los Angeles. His most recent book is The Seventh Perfection (2020).

Daniel Polansky

The Forgotten Noir Detective

"The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter, eh?" — Dashiell Hammett

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

Daniel Polansky is a writer, baker, and advocate for the unhoused. He lives in Los Angeles. His most recent book is The Seventh Perfection (2020).