I watched them come home year after year from Iraq and Afghanistan, young men and women no older than my own children, some missing an arm or a leg, some terribly disfigured by bomb fragments, all damaged emotionally by what they had seen, and I knew I had to write about it . . .
[Video] View the book trailer for Robert Antoni’s As Flies to Whatless Boys!
Etzler’s Machines by John Adolphus Etzler (by Robert Antoni, from As Flies to Whatless Boys)
The Caribbean is, above all, a sentiment, a rhythm, a way of life. In this respect, I grew up in a place that is both essentially Caribbean and, at the same time, desperately seeking to avoid its Caribbean nature . . .
A Dialogue on Etzler’s Paradise by John Adolphus Etzler (by Robert Antoni, from As Flies to Whatless Boys)
Montague Kobbé talks about the inspiration behind his debut novel, The Night of the Rambler.
Akashic Insider: Johnny Temple at Work (as related pictorially by the Akashic staff).
For today’s Akashic Insider, we asked Thomas Glave—author of the newly-released Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh—to write about the Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).