Akashic Authors Featured in Two New York Times Stories on November 10th
The November 10, 2013 issue of the New York Times features five Akashic authors: Lucian Perkins, Bernice L. McFadden, Edwidge Danticat, Colin Channer, and Elizabeth Nunez!
2013 News & Features
“Hometown Noir” by Catherine Cuellar
Dallas native and Dallas Noir contributor Catherine Cuellar talks about her own experiences with the darker side of Dallas.
Johnny Temple’s Introduction to USA Noir
To celebrate the publication of USA Noir, we’ve reproduced Akashic publisher and USA Noir editor Johnny Temple’s introduction to the volume.
“The City Without a Reason to Exist”: Harry Hunsicker on Dallas
Dallas Noir contributor Harry Hunsicker talks about his experience growing up in Big D and how he came to write “The Stickup Girl.”
“Theory/Practice” by Adam Mansbach
At the risk of coming off like a complete fucking asshole as usual, I would like to use this space to address a common misconception about parenthood . . .
“Dinner at Omar’s” by Robert Arellano
Ashland, deep summer. It’s the one month the sun sets over steep Lithia Park only one hour earlier than everywhere else in Oregon, but at the jagged edge of town the hulking green shadows still pile up like a forest clear-cut. It’s the lull after Big Al’s Tennis Tournament, and it’s still a long haul ‘til Labor Day . . .
Review: The Dead Run by Adam Mansbach
Akashic intern Lisa Martens reviews The Dead Run by Adam Mansbach (Harper Voyager).
“Like Unlike” by Kristen Valentine
You haven’t seen her in over a year, not since that Labor Day weekend you took her up to your family’s lake house and she got so pissed at you for shooting up right away. “Danny, I was serious,” she said, like you were supposed to know that. But how the hell could you tell she was serious this time when she’d never been serious before . . . ?