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NOW AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER: Please click here for information about the Please Take Me Off the Guest List preorder, featuring limited edition signed items from Nick Zinner, Zachary Lipez, and Stacy Wakefield.
The New York Times Book Review wrote of Glorious: "McFadden's lively and loving rendering of New York hews closely to the jazz-inflected city of myth; [É] McFadden has a wonderful ear for dialogue, and her entertaining prose equally accommodates humor and pathos."
The following Akashic authors have been nominated for the Shamus Award for Best Short Story: Brendan DuBois, for "The Dark Island" from Boston Noir, and Gary Phillips for ÒBlazin' on Broadway" from Phoenix Noir.
Glorious was reviewed by Alan Cheuse on NPR's All Things Considered.
Mesopotamia was named one of New York Post's Required Reading books.
Glorious was chosen by Terry McMillan as a must-read book for Entertainment Weekly's Ultimate Summer List.
Lead NPR book critic Alan Cheuse called Glorious Òa lovely, engaging, huge historical novel that grabs you and takes you there,Ó in this interview on the Agony Column.
Glorious author Bernice McFadden contributed a brilliant op-ed to the Washington Post about racial politics within the book-publishing industry.
Jesus Boy by Preston L. Allen in the New York Times.
We are also pleased to present a limited signed hardcover edition of Empty Mile, the brand-new noir novel from Matthew Stokoe. Each copy is signed by Matthew and individually numbered out of 100; please click here for full details, and to order a copy (while supplies last!).
Dana Cameron's short story from Boston Noir titled FEMME SOLE has been nominated for an Agatha Award! This story, as well as editor Dennis Lehane's story ANIMAL RESCUE has also been nominated for an Edgar Award in the Best Short Story category. Malice Domestic will announce the Agatha winners at a banquet on Saturday, May 1, 2010.
Boston Noir has made it onto the Boston Globe's bestseller list!
Marlon James, author of John Crows Devil has been nominated for a NAACP Image Award in the Outstanding Literary Work (Fiction) category!
PRESIDENT OBAMA'S READING LIST includes George Pelecanos' THE WAY HOME. George Pelecanos is the editor of Akashic's D.C. NOIR!.
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.
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.
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!
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.)
