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Boundaries and The Plot Against Hip Hop are finalists for the 2012 NAACP Image Award in Literature!

Lou Manfredo's story in New Jersey Noir and T. Jefferson Parker's story in San Diego Noir were selected for the Best American Mystery Stories 2012, forthcoming in October!

Alan Cheuse reviewed Gathering of Waters on NPR's All Things Considered; click here to listen!

Click here to watch Randall Robinson's interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!

Go the Fuck to Sleep, by Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortes, is one of Time magazine's "Things of the Year" in the "Person of the Year" issue!

Go Fish, by Mr. Fish, is one of the Village Voice's Best Comics and Graphic Novels of 2011!

Wingshooters, by Nina Revoyr, was selected for Booklist's Books of the Year 2011!

Go the Fuck to Sleep, by Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortes, is one of the "Top Ten Books of 2011" on E! Online.

Nathan Larson's The Dewey Decimal System was chosen by Barnes & Noble as one of "The Best Series Debuts of the Year" on Ransom Notes: The BN Mystery Blog.

Go the Fuck to Sleep, by Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortes, is now available in enhanced e-book edition from Open Road Media -- click here for more information!

New Jersey Noir, edited by Joyce Carol Oates, is on the New York Post's Required Reading list!

Bernice McFadden's Glorious is a finalist for the Huston/Wright Award!

Boundaries was selected as the New York Times Editor's Choice for October 2011!

Signed copies of Go Fish, by Mr. Fish, are available for pre-order!

Go the Fuck to Sleep, by Adam Mansbach and illustrated by Ricardo Cortes, is number one of the New York Times, Amazon.com, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, and IndieBound bestseller lists, among many others!

Wingshooters won the first annual Indie Booksellers Choice Awards, and the 2011 Midwest Booksellers Choice Award!

Mr Fish, author of Go Fish received a 2010 Sigma Delta Chi Award for editorial cartooning!

The film rights for Go the Fuck to Sleep were sold to Fox 2000 -- click here for more info!

Signed copies of Go the Fuck to Sleep, by Adam Mansbach and illustrated by Ricardo Cortes, are still available for order!

Kola Boof and Edwidge Danticat were named two of 40 Influential Black Female Authors by AOL's Black Voices -- click here to see the list!

Click here (and skip to 17:40) to hear Kevin Holohan read an excerpt from The Brothers' Lot at the Virginia Book Festival!

Click here to watch Edwidge Danticat discuss Haiti Noir on AlJazeera TV!

Akashic's publisher Johnny Temple took part in a three-part video interview with Galleycat's Jason Boog -- click here to watch!

Click here for ordering information on first edition, out of print, autographed novels, plays, and poems by Arthur Nersesian, (author of The Fuck-Up, Manhattan Loverboy, East Village Tetralogy, Suicide Casanova, and more.)