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Upcoming Events

Meryl Branch-McTiernan — Unnameable Books (Brooklyn, NY)

7/8/26, 7:00pm

Meryl Branch-McTiernan presents What You Should Worry About; also reading Maisy Card; moderated by Ledia Xhoga

Meryl Branch-McTiernan — Columbus Book Festival (Columbus, OH)

7/11/26, 11:30am

The Ties that Bind: Literary Fiction, featuring Meryl Branch-McTiernan, author of What You Should Worry About, Marshall Fine, author Hemlock Lane, Virginia Pye, author of Marriage and Other Monuments, and Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay, author of Chitra Demands to Go Home.

“About Time” Paperback Limited Edition Preorder

The Thinning

What You Should Worry About

Fame: The Hijacking of Reality (Paperback edition)

Go the Fuck to College

Exclusive Tape Op Preorder

Featured Titles

Featured: Black Interest

HNIC

Prodigy, from the legendary hip-hop group Mobb Deep, launches Akashic’s new Infamous Books imprint with a story of loyalty, vengeance, and greed.

The Half That’s Never Been Told: The Real-Life Reggae Adventures of Doctor Dread

A passionate memoir and fearless behind-the-scenes look at the personal lives of the biggest reggae stars in the world.

Bernice L. McFadden Digit

In honor of her 2012 New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year selection—and in anticipation of the just-released paperback edition of Nowhere Is a Place, our Bernice L. McFadden Digit features excerpts from all four of her Akashic titles: Gathering of Waters, The Warmest December, Glorious, and Nowhere Is a Place.

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