(County Line) Mama loved to watch those old movies on TV and she used to tell me that since I was born in Hollywood, she’d named me Kate and I was gonna grow up to be a movie star. Like the dumbshit I was, I believed her. But kids are like that and after she […]
Chapter 1 Well, it’s all over. The Odéon has fallen! And today, which is June 16th, a Sunday, the police on orders of the Government entered and took over the Sorbonne on some unclear and garbled pretext about some man who was wounded by a knife. There was some rioting this afternoon, but the police […]
(Clinton) She felt his eyes on her just about the time the bartender placed a Beck’s coaster on the bar and set her dry Rob Roy on top of it. She wanted to turn and see who was eyeing her, but remained as she was, trying to analyze just what it was she felt. She […]
(San Marino) They caught up with Russell Chen as he drove home from work, running his Lexus off the frontage road by the gravel pits of Irwindale. There were four of them, wearing reflective sunglasses and trucker caps pulled low, and for one terrified moment Chen though they meant to jack the car, kill him, […]
(King’s Cross) Dougie arrived at the concourse opposite the station just half an hour after it had all gone off. He’d had the cab driver drop him down the end of Gray’s Inn Road, outside a pub on the corner there, where he’d made a quick dive into the gents to remove the red hood […]
Five Akashic authors were recently invited to the Calabash Literary Festival from May 28-30 on the remote Treasure Beach in Jamaica. The authors—Sean Keith Henry, Nina Revoyr, Arnaldo Correa, Kaylie Jones and Yongsoo Park—joined Akashic publisher Johnny Temple at what all of them now regard as one of the finest literary festivals on the planet. […]
Limbo opens with a scene on a flight from California to Norway, followed by a car ride. How did you decide to start the novel with so much physical/geographical movement? Norway is a very “physical” place, and in terms of distance from the US, it is considered too far, beyond where most Americans who travel […]
Chapter 1 Landing in the midst of the descendants of vikings, the transatlantic flight with a one-year-old daughter and a wife teetering with apprehension has all but wiped out Pharaoh’s capacity to Chill out! The phrase was embraced by his wife, Hannah, during her twelve-year sojourn in California, and she continues to use it officiously. […]