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Upcoming Events

Meryl Branch-McTiernan — Kew & Willow Books (Kew Gardens, NY)

7/30/26, 7:00pm

Meryl Branch-McTiernan presents What You Should Worry About, in conversation with Sara Lippman, author of Hidden River.

Day One: 2024 Was 1984 FAFO

Stranded in the Future

The Thinning

What You Should Worry About

Natasha Howard Limited Edition Preorder Package

Exclusive Tape Op Preorder

Featured Titles

Featured: Black Interest

Even in Paradise

A modern-day King Lear, a novel of greed, resentment, jealousy, betrayal, and romance set in Trinidad, Jamaica, and Barbados.

New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Nane)

This fourteen-piece, limited-edition box set—an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project—features the work of thirteen new African poets.

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Fearless Vampire Killers: The Bad Brains Photographs

This collection includes Glen E. Friedman’s most iconic images of Bad Brains, as well as many never-before-seen photographs and endsheet art by Shepard Fairey.

For a SIGNED copy of the book, please select “SIGNED BY GLEN E. FRIEDMAN” in the drop-down menu below and click “ADD TO CART.” Or, for a 25% discount off the list price, please select “Unsigned.”

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