Join us for ringShout’s Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend event, featuring Elizabeth Nunez!
Join us on Tuesday, September 16th at 7:00 PM for ringShout’s 5th Annual Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend event, featuring Akashic author Elizabeth Nunez.
Category: Akashic Insider
Joyce Carol Oates’s Introduction to Prison Noir
To celebrate the release of Prison Noir, the latest in Akashic’s Noir Series, we’re pleased to bring you this decidedly dark sample from the anthology: editor Joyce Carol Oates’s introduction, “Seeds for Next Year.”
Catch Please Take Me Off the Guest List coauthor Zachary Lipez on tour!
Zachary Lipez, coauthor of Please Take Me Off the Guest List, will be touring the Northeast from September 18th through September 25th! He will be joined by fellow authors R.M. O’Brien and Eric Paul. Click for a full list of dates.
Eric Boyd: Swimming Lessons
To celebrate the release of Prison Noir — the latest release in Akashic’s Noir Series and edited by National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates — we’re pleased to feature a guest post from contributor Eric Boyd, who gives insight into what it’s like to write while incarcerated.
Johnny Temple, Prodigy, and K’wan talk Infamous Books on NPR’s Weekend Edition!
Did you catch Akashic publisher Johnny Temple and Akashic authors Albert “Prodigy” Johnson and K’wan on NPR’s Weekend Edition? Click to learn all about how Infamous Books is reverse gentrifying literature.
Meet David Yow’s Real-Life Cats!
To celebrate the release of Copycat: And a Litter of Other Cats, we’re pleased to feature a guest post from creator David Yow on his real-life cats Little Buddy, Nico, and Penny. In March 2005 I was in a new apartment and freshly divorced—clearly I needed a cat. A friend’s mama cat was about to […]
Hear Katia D. Ulysse Read “Take a Picture”
To celebrate the release of Drifting, we’re pleased to feature an audio recording of “Take a Picture” read by author Katia D. Ulysse.
Katia D. Ulysse talks Drifting with Edwidge Danticat at Salon
Katia D. Ulysse recently spoke to Haiti Noir and Haiti Noir 2: The Classics editor Edwidge Danticat at Salon to discuss her new book Drifting, journeying to America, Haiti, and more.