CHAPTER ONE: 1994 Ten days after her grandfather died, Jackie Ishida pulled into the entrance of the Tara Estates, the apartment complex where he’d lived with her aunt and uncle. It was eleven a.m. on a Saturday, February, 1994. Normally at this time she’d be studying already—she was in her third year of law school […]
The new teacher, Mister Moran, was on an exchange program from New York. Our school was a nickname maelstrom—Ghoul, Moose, Bull, Scab, Pox-face, Arse-brain. He was Moron straight off. He got off easy. You should have seen him . . .
Extreme Sweets The dog wakes up from a dream at the same time I do. His whimpering wakes me, so I pet his nose to calm him. We were both dreaming about cats. I dreamed that my cat had six kittens, each one a color of the rainbow. The purple one was pastel, the same […]
A long gray line of several hundred Red soldiers stood silently on the unused railroad track overgrown with weeds, near the charred remains of the water tower. Their rifles and carbines, thrown to the ground just minutes before, were being collected by two elderly railway workers who simply dumped them into a two-wheel cart one […]
I have a five-year-old. She’s fierce and stubborn. She’s sweet and empathetic.
Every Friday, the Akashic team highlights industry news, reviews, and features from around the web (and the office!). This week’s roundup comes to you from Akashic publicist Kate Bogden and editorial assistant Susannah Lawrence.
Jim Saah answers over 20 questions from Sohrab Habibion in under 4 minutes: photography, punk rock, zines, his cat and more!
Johanna Ingalls is the managing editor and director of foreign rights at Akashic Books where she has worked for over two decades since being rescued from the music industry by Akashic publisher Johnny Temple. A graduate of Barnard College, she currently lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, with her Norwegian Forest cat, Squid Lee Gato. Sohrab […]