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Now available for preorder: a hardcover edition of Hello Sunshine by Ryan Adams with bonus signed and numbered chapbook. Please click here to order!

Also available: Melvin Van Peebles's Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-Itchyfooted Mutha. A signed hardcover edition (limited to 100 copies!), each numbered and featuring a unique hand-drawn illustration from the godfather of black cinema, can be preordered here!

Mike Farrell holds his own on the Ed Shultz show and the Hannity Show. Watch a clip of Mr. Farrell discussing single payer universal health care reform with Ed Shultz here and go head to head with Hannity here.

Hot off the press: Better by John O'Brien and Delhi Noir edited by Hirsh Sawhney are now available for purchase exclusively on our website before they hits the shelves this summer.

Joe Meno was honored alongside Jhumpa Lahiri and Tobias Wolff at the 2009 Story Prize Awards Ceremony. Check out the webcast of the ceremony to see Joe Meno read from Demons in the Spring and discuss his work with Larry Dark, Director of The Story Prize.

Will Work For Drugs, The Show That Smells, and Globetrotter & Hitler's Children are now available for purchase exclusively on our website before they hits the shelves this summer.

Please check out Mike Farrell's recent article in the Huffington Post about the Obama administration's decision not to prosecute CIA torturers. Mike's new book, Of Mule and Man, is now available for purchase exclusively on our website before it hits the shelves this spring.

Breaking news: "Akashic Noir Series Gains Fans." From a recent feature in Publishers Weekly: "[Akashic] has announced that acclaimed novelists Edwidge Danticat and Dennis Lehane have agreed to guest edit upcoming Noir volumes set in Haiti and Boston, respectively." Watch this space for details! And please check out our complete list of Noir Series titles here, which includes three recent overseas volumes set in Rome, Paris, and Istanbul.

Akashic wins two 2008 PEN Beyond Margins Awards! Chris Abani (author of Song for Night) and Amiri Baraka (author of Tales of the Out & the Gone) have both been announced as winners of the 2008 PEN Beyond Margins Award, presented to "outstanding books by writers of color published in the United States during the previous year." They were honored on Tuesday, October 14, at the Beyond Margins Celebration at the Lincoln Center in New York City.

Kwame Dawes has just won the 2008 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for She's Gone in the Debut Fiction category! Kwame will be honored alongside Junot Diaz (Fiction) and Edwidge Danticat (Nonfiction) at a ceremony next spring. Be sure to check out Gomer's Song, Kwame's recently published and critically acclaimed entry in Chris Abani's Black Goat imprint.

The second installment in Arthur Nersesian's critically acclaimed "Five Books of Moses" series, The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx, offers a fantastic rendering of New York history through the warped lens of Robert Moses--the man largely responsible for creating the city's modern infrastruture--and his brother Paul. Released simultanesouly with the paperback edition of The Swing Voter of Staten Island, these two books delve into the political machinations that helped define New York City as the corrupt and morally bankrupt playground we know today--all filtered and twisted through an insightful and often playful sensibility that has enshrined Arthur as the finest contemporary chronicler of urban existence. Arthur was the subject of a recent above-the-fold multiple-page cover story in the New York Times City Section (Sunday, September 14); check out the profile here.

And for a short time, autographed copies of both The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx (limited edition HARDCOVER) and The Swing Voter of Staten Island (new paperback version) are available for only $35 (less than retail cost; shipping included)! Click here to place your order while supplies last!

The advance reviews are in for Joe Meno's new hardcover short story collection, Demons in the Spring, and they're unanimous in praise: A starred review in Publishers Weekly says that this "stellar" collection "succeeds word to word, sentence to sentence, and cover to cover," while another starred review from Kirkus describes it as "an inspired collection, brilliant in its command of tone and narrative perspective." The work comes "highly recommended" from Library Journal, while Booklist writes that in this "daring collection," Meno "shows his mastery of the short form with 20 tales of whimsy and loss." The book comes in a limited cloth edition of 4,000 and is now available directly from Akashic--get 'em while you can!

Check out this great cover profile on D.C. Noir 2 editor George Pelecanos from the Washington Post Magazine. A guidebook of sorts to a hundred years of D.C.'s dark literary history, the book features classic short fiction from the likes of Edward P. Jones, Richard Wright, and Langston Hughes, and is available exclusively from our website prior to its official release in September; Manhattan Noir 2, Lawrence Block's brand-new anthology showcasing New York literary stalwarts Edith Wharton, Damon Runyon, Stephen Crane, and many others, is also available from our website before it hits the streets next month.

Signed books available from Akashic! A limited number of autographed copies of several of our new books are available directly from Akashic. Go to the individual book's web page to order via PayPal: Tales of the Out & the Gone (signed by Amiri Baraka), American Visa (signed by Juan de Recacoechea), Bronx Noir (signed by editor S.J. Rozan), Havana Noir (signed by editor Achy Obejas), Just Call Me Mike (signed by Mike Farrell) in both hardcover and paperback editions, and How the Hula Girl Sings by Joe Meno--are all available while supplies last!

Help Tom Hayden End the War in Iraq! Bulk discount rates are available for antiwar organizations and activists: Orders of 20 copies or more receive a discounted rate of only $9.00 each, and serve as the ideal fundraising and organizing tool for political and community groups. Please contact johanna [at] akashicbooks [dot] com for more information or to place an order.

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The Glenlivet Salutes Akashic Publisher Johnny Temple! Take a look at this full-page profile of Johnny in the winter fiction issue of The New Yorker. And the International Herald Tribune also recently profiled Akashic's ubiquitous publisher.

Click here for ordering information on first edition, out of print, autographed novels, plays, and poems by Arthur Nersesian, (author of The Fuck-Up, Manhattan Loverboy, dogrun, Chinese Takeout, Unlubricated, East Village Tetralogy, and Suicide Casanova.)