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Upcoming Events

VIRTUAL EVENT: Sugar Rodgers, CJ Farley – Greenlight Bookstore (Brooklyn, NY)

4/21/21, 7:30pm

PLEASE NOTE: All of our virtual events are listed in Eastern Time (ET). Sugar Rodgers presents her memoir, They Better Call Me Sugar, in conversation with CJ Farley, author of Game World and Around Harvard Square. Full details TBA; please visit Greenlight Bookstore to learn more.

VIRTUAL EVENT: Ben Okri – Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

4/23/21, 8:00pm

PLEASE NOTE: All of our virtual events are listed in Eastern Time (ET). Panel discussion: “The Art of the Short Story” featuring Carribean Fragoza, Ben Okri, Deesha Philyaw, and Shruti Swamy, moderated by Dorany Pineda. This event is free to attend but registration is required; please click here to register via Eventbrite.

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Category: News

Another great week for FACE!

Justine Bateman’s Face: One Square Foot of Skin has had another great week!

CREATURES OF PASSAGE Receives High Praise in New York Times, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer and more!

Morowa Yejidé’s fantastic new novel, Creatures of Passage, has been getting lots of well-deserved attention, which you can check out here…

Available Now: Four LyricPop Picture Books That Will Make Your Kids Sing

LyricPop presents your favorite song lyrics by renowned songwriters as illustrated picture books, instilling a love of music and song among young readers. The series continues today with four new titles! Follow the links below to order now. And for a limited time, you can get all 8 books for just $50 by purchasing our bundled […]

Now Available—LyricPop: A New Picture Book Series!

Akashic Books is pleased to announce LyricPop, A New Picture Book Series Presenting Your Favorite Song Lyrics, Launching today.

A TALL HISTORY OF SUGAR Is One of Vanity Fair‘s Best of 2019!

Curdella Forbes’s A Tall History of Sugar, released in October 2019, was selected as an Editors’ Pick for Vanity Fair‘s Best Books of 2019 by Copy Production Director Anderson Tepper. His recommendation reads: “Curdella Forbes’s A Tall History of Sugar is the most recent in an impressive new wave of novels by Jamaican writers—from Marlon James‘s Booker […]