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Upcoming Events

11/3/26, 6:00pm

Larry Crane presents Making Music, in conversation with Tony Visconti.

11/4/26, 5:30pm

Presenting Virgin Islands Noir, featuring Tiphanie Yanique, Traci O’Dea, Rea Vanterpool, Johanna Gibson, Johnny Temple, and Richard Georges.

Tuff Gnarl Limited Edition Preorder

Controversial literary legend Amiri Baraka’s new short story collection—an Essence Magazine best-seller—will shock and awe.

What William S. Burroughs’ Junky was to heroin addiction, All or Nothing is to gambling, only more prophetic.

A young Jamaican man struggles to overcome toxic masculinity—his culture’s and his own—in this Caribbean coming-of-age novel.

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11/3/26, 6:00pm

Larry Crane presents Making Music, in conversation with Tony Visconti.

11/4/26, 5:30pm

Presenting Virgin Islands Noir, featuring Tiphanie Yanique, Traci O’Dea, Rea Vanterpool, Johanna Gibson, Johnny Temple, and Richard Georges.

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This year we’ve gotten hundreds (thousands?) of reports that scammers are impersonating (or inventing) Akashic Books staff . . .
Exclusive Natasha Howard Preorder Package

Our exclusive preorder package for Natasha Howard’s new WNBA memoir is now available for preorder
Exclusive Gina Gershon Preorder Package

Gina Gershon’s preorder package for her new memoir AlphaPussy is now available!
Exclusive Robyn Hitchcock Preorder Package
Now Available: Hey Yang, Where’s My Thousand Bucks?
Akashic Remembers Elizabeth Nunez
Quarantine Q&A: David Duchovny