Weekly Roundup for 3/15/13
Every Friday, the Akashic team highlights industry news, reviews, and features from around the web. This week’s roundup comes to you from Akashic publicist Kate Bogden and intern Deanna Hoffmann.
2013 News & Features
An Addictive Anthology: Jerry Stahl’s The Heroin Chronicles
Open Road, one of the best e-book publishers around, has created this fantastic video to celebrate their release of The Heroin Chronicles e-book! Check out “An Addictive Anthology: Jerry Stahl’s The Heroin Chronicles” below: Click here to purchase The Heroin Chronicles e-book through Open Road.
A Conversation with Carrie Howland, Literary Agent at Donadio & Olsen
Continuing our feature Akashic in Good Company, which spotlights our colleagues in other corners of the publishing world, Akashic Books Managing Editor Johanna Ingalls speaks with Carrie Howland, Literary Agent at Donadio & Olsen.
Literary Lions: 10 Questions with Jonathan Lethem
Publisher Johnny Temple interviews Jonathan Lethem as part of Akashic Books’ “Literary Lions” interview series!
Weekly Roundup for 3/8/13
Every Friday, the Akashic team highlights industry news, reviews, and features from around the web. This week’s roundup comes to you from Akashic editorial assistant Susannah Lawrence and intern Deanna Hoffmann. Around the Web Emeline Michel: Quintessence, part of The Healing Voices of Haiti, has two SOLD OUT shows at the Harlem Stage Gatehouse this […]
“Calculating the Price Per Pound of an Incarcerated Black Man’s Flesh,” by Ricardo Cortés
In 2000, I was struck by a simple infographic in Wired magazine comparing earnings between several major industries. I was surprised by the low ranking of movies with respect to their command of popular culture. Moreover I was moved by how the bar graphs told a story; I tore out the page and taped it to my studio wall. Five years later, as I was formulating the idea of an illustrated book about coffee and drug prohibition, I read that coffee was the second most-traded commodity after oil. It seemed fantastic that coffee was that popular. I began to research the trails of several interrelated commercial, cultural, and political behemoths, and I imagined ways to compare them . . .
A Conversation with Margarita Shalina, Small Press Book Buyer for St. Mark’s Bookshop
Continuing our feature Akashic in Good Company, which spotlights our colleagues in other corners of the publishing world, Akashic Books Managing Editor Johanna Ingalls speaks with Margarita Shalina, Small Press Book Buyer for St. Mark’s Bookshop.
“On Writing a Real Life Murder,” by David McConnell, author of American Honor Killings
Some artists feel a touch of envy for the crystalline truths of science; what they offer in the way of truth can seem as mushy and dubious as wine-speak. I happen to be an admirer of connoisseurship (though a lot of people scorn it as elitist nowadays), but when I decided to try nonfiction after cutting my teeth on fiction, I wanted to be a little more science-like. For one thing, real world murders—the subject of American Honor Killings—shook up my notions of refinement. They shook ME up, frankly….