Black Marks
A powerful tale of a young woman’s quest to unearth her identity, lost between cultures and families.
Felony Juggler Limited Edition Preorder
Kumi: New-Generation African Poets, A Chapbook Box Set
Post-Volcanic Folk Tales
Interficial ARTelligence Limited Edition Preorder
Honolulu Noir
Featured: Black Interest
Bandits & Bibles: Convict Literature in Nineteenth-Century America
What was life like for the gangs of New York and others thrown into the nineteenth-century slammer?
Game World
Launching Akashic’s new Black Sheep YA imprint, an adventure novel in a video game turned reality, with giant spiders, malevolent hummingbirds, a not-quite-yellow-brick road, and preteen children learning how to be heroes!
Upcoming Events
Marianne Leone — JP Literary Salon (Jamaica Plain, MA)
1/14/25, 7:00pm
Marianne Leone presents Five-Dog Epiphany; also reading: Randy Susan Meyers, author of The Many Mothers of Ivy Puddingstone The JP Literary Salon presented by Papercuts & the Loring-Greenough House Free RSVP: papercutsjp.com/events
Billy Childish & Ted Kessler — City Lights (VIRTUAL)
1/18/25, 11:00am
Billy Childish & Ted Kessler present To Ease My Troubled Mind, in conversation with Guy Picciotto of Fugazi (VIRTUAL event, 11:00am PT/2:00pm ET/7:00pm UK)
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Limited Edition Preorders and Special Offers
Check out these exclusive limited edition packages by Penn Jillette, Chuck D.
The Hold Steady, and more.. - Listen to “Imaginary Composition” by Sonnenzimmer
- Listen to “Beginnings, Endings, and Other Musical Figures” by Joseph Fuller
- Listen to “Catastrophe Will Never Let You Down” by Adam Gwon, performed by Margo Seibert
- Listen to “Leave it Alone” by Jason Kaminski
Akashic Insider
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Akashic Remembers Elizabeth Nunez
The World of Letters lost a true lion when Elizabeth Nunez passed away on November 11, 2024 at the age of eighty . . .
- Quarantine Q&A: David Duchovny
- TJJT Book Club: S.A. Cosby
- Quarantine Q&A: Jim Saah
- Quarantine Q&A: Tiphanie Yanique