In conjunction with the publication of Pills and Starships by Lydia Millet—the latest release from our Black Sheep imprint for Young Adults and Young Readers—we’ve created the Black Sheep Digit, comprising excerpts from Pills and Starships and our first two Black Sheep releases, Changers Book One: Drew by T Cooper and Allison Glock-Cooper and Game World by C. J. Farley.
A timely memoir about world record–breaking Tyus’s 1964 and 1968 Olympic victories, amid the turbulence of the 1960s, along with contemporary reflections.
A man’s quest to resolve an inherited family trauma leads him to an enigmatic priory in a war-ravaged region, from which he’s not sure he will be able to flee
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11/14/26, 7:00pm
Meryl Branch-McTiernan presents What You Should Worry About, in conversation with Claire Jentsch.
11/15/26, 5:30pm
Kira Tucker presents Wildest: Poems.
Now available for preorder: the latest “naphic grovel” by rap legend Chuck D
The new paperback edition of David Duchovny’s debut poetry collection, About Time, is now available for preorder.
This year we’ve gotten hundreds (thousands?) of reports that scammers are impersonating (or inventing) Akashic Books staff . . .
Our exclusive preorder package for Natasha Howard’s new WNBA memoir is now available for preorder
Gina Gershon’s preorder package for her new memoir AlphaPussy is now available!
