Date: May, 3 2021
PLEASE NOTE: All of our virtual events are listed in Eastern Time (ET). Berkeley Noir co-editors Jerry Thompson and Owen Hill are joined by contributors Aya de Leon and Thomas Burchfield in this virtual event hosted by the Berkeley Public Library. This event is free to attend and will be hosted on Zoom; please visit […]
To celebrate the release of Memphis Noir, the latest in Akashic’s Noir Series, we’re pleased to give you a look at editors Laureen P. Cantwell and Leonard Gill’s introduction, “City of Marvels & Misfits.”
Date: June, 9 2023
Austin Noir featuring Andrew Hilbert, Gabino Iglesias, Amanda Moore, Lee Thomas, Chaitali Sin, and Scott Montgomery
Download a copy of Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbeant for absolutely free through Tuesday, January 26!
Date: June, 27 2014
Noir Night featuring Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, Joe Meno, Richard Thomas (editor of The New Black), and Ben Tanzer (author of Orphan) in conversation with Mei-Ling Hopgood (Asian American Journalists Association). Cosponsored by Tiger Beer, Curbside Splendor, and the Asian American Journalists Association. Complimentary Tiger Beer will be available.
Date: November, 3 2015
Launch event for Memphis Noir. Featuring editors Laureen P. Cantwell and Leonard Gill, and contributors John Bensko, Richard J. Alley, Suzanne Berube Rorhus, Cary Holladay, Jamey Hatley, Adam Shaw, Penny Register-Shaw, David Wesley Williams, Dwight Fryer, Sheree Renee Thomas, and Troy L. Wiggins. Cosponsored by The Booksellers at Laurelwood.
To celebrate the release of Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night — the latest release in Akashic’s Kaylie Jones Books imprint, and one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Summer Books of 2014 — Kaylie Jones sat down to talk with debut novelist Barbara J. Taylor about her inspiration, her writing process, and what keeps her going.
The vaporetto turns the bend.
You’ve seen it in countless paintings by Canaletto, Turner, and others, a thousand and one photographs and movies and TV documentaries, but still the eternal view unfolds like a slow-motion epiphany.
The Grand Canal in all its majesty. Canal Grande . . .