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View the entire Barnes & Noble "Upstairs at the Square" program featuring Kwame Dawes and current indie-music dominators Vampire Weekend!
Boston Noir has made it onto the Boston Globe's bestseller list!
Akashic Books Announces it's Spring book party!. Please join us on Wed. May 19, 7pm, at the Center for Fiction (17 East 47th St.). Join us for drinks, snacks, and the opportunity to meet our authors including Arthur Nersesian, Cristina Garcia, Bernice L. McFadden and James Greer, with cohosts Melvin Van Peebles and Johnny Temple. Books will be available at a discount! Come catch spring fever!
Marlon James, author of John Crows Devil has been nominated for a NAACP Image Award in the Outstanding Literary Work (Fiction) category!
Omair Ahmad and Siddharth Chowdhury, two contributors to DELHI NOIR (edited by Hirsh Sawhney), have made it onto this year's Man Asian Prize Shortlist. Siddharth Chowdhury's Delhi Noir story "Hostel" ended up forming a part of the novel for which he was nominated.
Now available: limited and signed items from singer/songwriter Ryan Adams. Click here for the Akashic Books/Ryan Adams web store, featuring Ryan's books along with other rare collectibles.
Also available: Melvin Van Peebles's Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-Itchyfooted Mutha. A signed hardcover edition (limited to 40 copies!), each numbered and featuring a unique hand-drawn illustration from the godfather of black cinema, can be preordered here!
Also available: a limited hardcover edition of Boston Noir, edited by Dennis Lehane. Each copy is signed by Dennis and individually numbered out of 100; please click here for full details about the book.
PRESIDENT OBAMA'S READING LIST includes George Pelecanos' THE WAY HOME. George Pelecanos is the editor of Akashic's D.C. NOIR!.
Mike Farrell holds his own on the Ed Shultz show and the Hannity Show. Watch a clip of Mr. Farrell discussing single payer universal health care reform with Ed Shultz here and go head to head with Hannity here.
Joe Meno was honored alongside Jhumpa Lahiri and Tobias Wolff at the 2009 Story Prize Awards Ceremony. Check out the webcast of the ceremony to see Joe Meno read from Demons in the Spring and discuss his work with Larry Dark, Director of The Story Prize.
The second installment in Arthur Nersesian's critically acclaimed "Five Books of Moses" series, The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx, offers a fantastic rendering of New York history through the warped lens of Robert Moses--the man largely responsible for creating the city's modern infrastruture--and his brother Paul. Released simultanesouly with the paperback edition of The Swing Voter of Staten Island, these two books delve into the political machinations that helped define New York City as the corrupt and morally bankrupt playground we know today--all filtered and twisted through an insightful and often playful sensibility that has enshrined Arthur as the finest contemporary chronicler of urban existence. Arthur was the subject of a recent above-the-fold multiple-page cover story in the New York Times City Section (Sunday, September 14); check out the profile here.
And for a short time, autographed copies of both The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx (limited edition HARDCOVER) and The Swing Voter of Staten Island (new paperback version) are available for only $35 (less than retail cost; shipping included)! Click here to place your order while supplies last!
The advance reviews are in for Joe Meno's new hardcover short story collection, Demons in the Spring, and they're unanimous in praise: A starred review in Publishers Weekly says that this "stellar" collection "succeeds word to word, sentence to sentence, and cover to cover," while another starred review from Kirkus describes it as "an inspired collection, brilliant in its command of tone and narrative perspective." The work comes "highly recommended" from Library Journal, while Booklist writes that in this "daring collection," Meno "shows his mastery of the short form with 20 tales of whimsy and loss." The book comes in a limited cloth edition of 4,000 and is now available directly from Akashic--get 'em while you can!
Check out this great cover profile on D.C. Noir 2 editor George Pelecanos from the Washington Post Magazine. A guidebook of sorts to a hundred years of D.C.'s dark literary history, the book features classic short fiction from the likes of Edward P. Jones, Richard Wright, and Langston Hughes, and is available exclusively from our website prior to its official release in September; Manhattan Noir 2, Lawrence Block's brand-new anthology showcasing New York literary stalwarts Edith Wharton, Damon Runyon, Stephen Crane, and many others, is also available from our website before it hits the streets next month.
Signed books available from Akashic! A limited number of autographed copies of several of our new books are available directly from Akashic. Go to the individual book's web page to order via PayPal: Tales of the Out & the Gone (signed by Amiri Baraka), American Visa (signed by Juan de Recacoechea), Bronx Noir (signed by editor S.J. Rozan), Havana Noir (signed by editor Achy Obejas), Just Call Me Mike (signed by Mike Farrell) in both hardcover and paperback editions, and How the Hula Girl Sings by Joe Meno--are all available while supplies last!
Help Tom Hayden End the War in Iraq! Bulk discount rates are available for antiwar organizations and activists: Orders of 20 copies or more receive a discounted rate of only $9.00 each, and serve as the ideal fundraising and organizing tool for political and community groups. Please contact johanna [at] akashicbooks [dot] com for more information or to place an order.
The Glenlivet Salutes Akashic Publisher Johnny Temple! Take a look at this full-page profile of Johnny in the winter fiction issue of The New Yorker. And the International Herald Tribune also recently profiled Akashic's ubiquitous publisher.
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, dogrun, Chinese Takeout, Unlubricated, East Village Tetralogy, and Suicide Casanova.)
