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Jerry Stahl – Stories Books & Café (Los Angeles, CA)

7/5/22, 7:00pm

Jerry Stahl presents his new book Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man’s Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust in conversation with Jonathan Ames.

Morowa Yejidé – Politics & Prose at Union Market (Washington, DC)

7/5/22, 7:00pm

Morowa Yejidé celebrates the release of the paperback edition of her novel Creatures of Passage in conversation with Zach Powers, artistic director of The Writer’s Center.

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Marlon James

MARLON JAMES was born in Jamaica in 1970. He is the author of the New York Times-bestseller Black Leopard, Red Wolf, which was a finalist for the National Book Award for fiction in 2019. His novel A Brief History of Seven Killings won the 2015 Man Booker Prize. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for fiction, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction, and the Minnesota Book Award. It was also a New York Times Notable Book. James is also the author of The Book of Night Women, which won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Minnesota Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction and an NAACP Image Award. His first novel, John Crow’s Devil, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. James divides his time between Minnesota and New York.

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John Crow’s Devil

By: Marlon James

The long-awaited paperback reissue of the acclaimed Jamaican author’s debut novel.

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So Many Islands: Stories from the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Indian, and Pacific Oceans

By: Nicholas Laughlin, Nailah Folami Imoja and Marlon James

Brand-new fiction, essays, and poems from seventeen island countries around the world.

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Bronx Noir

Edited by: S.J. Rozan

Best-selling crime writer S.J. Rozan corrals a diverse crew of celebrated authors to highlight the dark magnificence of her native New York City borough.

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Caribbean Debuts Digit

Edited by: Akashic Books

The free Caribbean Debuts Digit features excerpts from four great debut works of fiction in our catalog: Drifting by Katia D. Ulysse, The Night of the Rambler by Montague Kobbé, The Roving Tree by Elsie Augustave (Haiti), and John Crow’s Devil by Marlon James.

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Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction From Jamaica’s Calabash Writer’s Workshop

Edited by: Colin Channer

Jamaica’s literary lion Colin Channer presents new fiction from the freshest young Jamaican authors and the Calabash International Literary Festival’s Extended Family.