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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)

Tag: Kaylie Jones

“The Time Minnie Was Decapitated” by Lauren Stahl

I am running behind on dinner thanks to a last minute work emergency and bumper-to-bumper traffic on the interstate . . .

Twenty-Year Anniversary Notebooks

Now Available: Twenty-Year Anniversary Notebooks

Book Launch: City Mouse, by Stacey Lender

Book Launch: Stacey Lender at Book Culture

Now Available: The Year of Needy Girls

Now Available: The Year of Needy Girls by Patricia A. Smith.

EVENT ALERT: Barbara J. Taylor & Kaylie Jones @ Bluestockings Bookstore in NYC

New Yorkers: Join author Barbara J. Taylor for the NYC release of All Waiting Is Long on Wed., 8/10 @ 7pm!

Read an excerpt from Some Go Hungry by J. Patrick Redmond

Read an excerpt from Some Go Hungry by J. Patrick Redmond, the latest novel from Akashic’s Kaylie Jones Books imprint.

Marlon James receives 2015 Man Booker Prize!

Congratulations to John Crow’s Devil author Marlon James, winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize!

September Events in NYC!

Don’t miss Akashic authors in NYC this September! Click for information on individual events and on the Brooklyn Book Festival.