Brooklyn Book Festival Events Featuring Akashic Authors!
Read about the many Akashic events at and around the Brooklyn Book Festival!
News & Features
“Duct Tape” by Heather Dune Macadam
The bells of the village clang. Sunlight bounces over both steeples and through the curtains. Periwinkle shutters open onto the square, and from the street, the beginning chatter of our neighbors heading up the lane to meet the bread van floats in on the breeze. A minute later, the other set of bells on the other church sound . . .
Weekly Roundup for 9/6/13
Every Friday, the Akashic team highlights industry news, reviews, and features from around the web. This week’s roundup comes to you from Akashic interns Anaka Allen and Lisa Martens!
“Glitterless Game-town” by Timber Masterson
You tell yourself you have a handle on it, that it’s not so bad. You catch yourself looking down at that once-precious, bleeding, now-scarring arm—blisters reddening, rotting boughs hemorrhaging, far from on the mend, things swelling where they shouldn’t. And those twitches you have . . .
A Dialogue on Etzler’s Paradise, by John Adolphus Etzler (by Robert Antoni)
A Dialogue on Etzler’s Paradise by John Adolphus Etzler (by Robert Antoni, from As Flies to Whatless Boys)
Montague Kobbé: On Writing The Night of the Rambler
Montague Kobbé talks about the inspiration behind his debut novel, The Night of the Rambler.
Weekly Roundup for 8/30/13
Every Friday, the Akashic team highlights industry news, reviews, and features from around the web. This week’s roundup comes to you from Akashic interns Melissa Bean and Yaima Villarreal!
“Suicide Note #3” by David L. Robb
I shouldn’t have dropped acid today. But then, that’s what I always say. I live on the third floor of the Mars Motel in Yuba City. If you lived in the Mars Motel in Yuba City, you’d drop acid, too. But this time is different . . .