Night Letter
Forthcoming: 1/31/23
A taut thriller set in Florida’s desolate panhandle, part coming-of-age story, all hard-boiled noir
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Blood Sugar
Forthcoming: 2/7/23
Blood Sugar is a disturbing and evocative collection of new work and selected poems previously featured in Blackman’s enormously popular chapbooks.
Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before February 7, 2023.
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Tisa: New-Generation African Poets, A Chapbook Box Set
Forthcoming: 2/7/23
This twelve-piece, limited-edition box set—an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project—features the work of eleven new African poets.
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Tell the Rest
Forthcoming: 3/7/23
Two estranged childhood friends find themselves on parallel paths to return to the site of the conversion therapy camp that tore them apart
Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before March 7, 2023.
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The Kevin Powell Reader: Essential Writings and Conversations
Forthcoming: 4/4/23
A hopeful and insightful collection by one of the great voices of our time
Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before April 4, 2023.
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The Wishing Pool and Other Stories
Forthcoming: 4/18/23
In her first new book in seven years, Tananarive Due further cements her status as a leading innovator in Black horror and Afrofuturism
Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before April 18, 2023.
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Austin Noir
Forthcoming: 5/2/23
Austin joins Dallas and Houston in Akashic’s deep dive into the Lone Star State’s darkest dimensions
Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before May 2, 2023.
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Cleveland Noir
Forthcoming: 8/1/23
Cleveland Noir joins Columbus Noir as the Akashic Noir Series continues its tour of Ohio, and navigates the dregs of the North Shore
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Lean on Me
Forthcoming: 8/1/23
Bill Withers’s classic anthem to friendship lives on in this moving children’s picture book adaptation
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Boom Chicago Presents the 30 Most Important Years in Dutch History
Forthcoming: 7/4/23
An exciting history of the improv group you’ve never heard of that changed comedy in America—this is the story of Boom Chicago in Amsterdam as told by its founders and most famous alumni! Featuring a foreword by Seth Meyers and a backword by Jordan Peele.
Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before July 4, 2023.
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The Gospel of The Hold Steady: How a Resurrection Really Feels
Forthcoming: 7/25/23
An oral history (with photographs) of the greatest American bar band of the twenty-first century
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Hunters in High Heels
Forthcoming: TBA
The first book collecting the transcendent photographs by Grammy Award–winning music icon Omar Rodriguez Lopez.
The Inner Ear of Don Zientara: A Half Century of Recording in One of America’s Most Innovative Studios, Through the Voices of Musicians
Forthcoming: 6/6/23
A photo-filled oral history of the DC-area music studio that brought us some of the most iconic recordings by Bad Brains, Bikini Kill, Fugazi, and so many more
Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before June 6, 2023.
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Just a Minor Threat: The Minor Threat Photographs of Glen E. Friedman
Forthcoming: 10/3/23
This collection includes Glen E. Friedman’s most iconic images of Minor Threat, as well as many never-before-seen photographs.
Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before October 3, 2023.
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Out of Mesopotamia
Forthcoming: 8/2/22
Informed by firsthand experience on the battlefronts of Iraq and Syria, Abdoh captures the horror, confusion, and absurdity of combat from a seldom-glimpsed perspective that expands our understanding of the war novel.
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STEWdio: The Naphic Grovel ARTrilogy of Chuck D
Forthcoming: 6/6/23
Chuck D (Public Enemy, Prophets of Rage, etc.) brings his personal insights and social critiques to the page in fierce, passionate, and evocative visual art and prose
Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before June 06, 2023.
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Sufferah: The Memoir of a Brixton Reggae-Head
Forthcoming: 7/4/23
In this breathtaking memoir, acclaimed author Alex Wheatle details how reggae music became his salvation through a childhood marred by abuse, imprisonment, and police brutality
Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before July 4, 2023.
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