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Reverse-Gentrification of the Literary World

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A seminal Jones/Baraka literary land mine that launches AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series.

Haiti Noir

Akashic recruits Danticat, one of the truly great contemporary writers, to edit this timely volume featuring stories set both before and after the devastating 2010 earthquake.

The Lunatic

The first-ever US publication of the Caribbean comic classic that is also a major motion picture.

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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)

Ravi Coltrane & Brandee Younger — Rough Trade NYC (New York, NY)

2/6/25, 6:00pm

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