Chicago Noir: The Classics Receives STARRED Review from Publishers Weekly!

We’re thrilled for editor Joe Meno! Click to read the full review.

“Sea Change” by Nancy M. Michael

She stood in the shelter of the doorway of the Chicago Yacht Club, watching as the sky darkened and clouds enveloped and erased the tops of the skyscrapers . . .

Rob Warmowski on the Jesus Lizard in Chicago, 1990

To celebrate the release of The Jesus Lizard Book, Akashic will be featuring excerpts from Book on our website once a week throughout March. Today, we bring you Rob Warmowski’s piece on the July 21, 1990 Jesus Lizard show at Edge of the Looking Glass in Chicago.

Read Chapter One of Bedrock Faith!

To celebrate the release of Bedrock Faith, Eric Charles May’s debut novel, we’re thrilled to share this excerpt from the novel: Chapter One in all its entirety.

EVENT ALERT: The Jesus Lizard Tours With Book!

Catch David Yow, David Wm. Sims, and Mac McNeilly as they tour with The Jesus Lizard Book!

“Mr. Acid” by Richard Jay Goldstein

Which reminds you of the first time you ever dropped acid.

Hardly anyone then had ever heard of LSD. But rumors dawned of a great new drug which let you see God, or someone similar. Apocryphal stories drifted like alien blimps through misty skies. How LSD had been discovered by an atheist Swiss chemist who got some on his hands and became a holy man. How Aldous Huxley had taken tons of it and left his dying body behind, rising like a comet into heaven . . .

Indie Bookstore Spotlight: Quimby’s Bookstore (Wicker Park, Chicago)

Indie Bookstore Spotlight: Akashic in Good Company takes a walk through the not-to-miss Quimby’s Bookstore in Chicago!

Indie Bookstore Spotlight: The Book Cellar Inc. (Chicago)

This week Akashic in Good Company is delighted to feature a virtual tour of of a wonderful indie bookstore from Chicago’s North Side, The Book Cellar!