Johanna Ingalls is the managing editor and director of foreign rights at Akashic Books where she has worked for over two decades since being rescued from the music industry by Akashic publisher Johnny Temple. A graduate of Barnard College, she currently lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, with her Norwegian Forest cat, Squid Lee Gato. Sohrab […]
Date: March, 9 2017
Bradley Spinelli will celebrate the launch of The Painted Gun with a night of noir and burlesque hosted by Miss Astrid and featuring Angie Pontani, Peekaboo Pointe, Gal Friday, Matthew Holtzclaw, Francine “The Lucid Dream,” and DJ Fresh Prince of Darkness. This event will also be curated with delicious tacos from NYC’s own Dos Toros Taqueria.
Date: September, 17 2017
Where is Home: “Home” is an idea that invites many definitions and interpretations, but it is especially complex for immigrants and their children. Is home where one’s family is, or one’s family history? Or where their beliefs are accepted and embraced? Dina Nayeri (Refuge), Amani Al-Khatahtbeh (Muslim Girl), and Derek Palacio (The Mortifications) discuss how […]
Date: November, 4 2015
Zagreb Noir editor Ivan Sršen in conversation with Dijana Jelaca; moderated by Buzz Poole. Refreshments will be provided.
Date: June, 11 2017
Celebrate the launch of Trinidad Noir: The Classics with coeditor Robert Antoni in conversation with Tiphanie Yanique (Land of Love and Drowning) and Nicole Dennis-Benn (Here Comes the Sun). Presented by Akashic Books and the Caribbean Cultural Theatre as part of the WORD! Caribbean Book Fest.
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Me and Tino are sitting in the bay window of the lobby. Our building, like the other brown, seven-storied buildings around it, is really majestic just people never take the time to look at it . . .
Robbing the liquor store went well. Took less than a minute. Alex didn’t even need to shoot his gun at all . . .