Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Filed under: News Today, Oh Boy! Spinner.com : Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs is debuting a new side project called Native Korean Rock and the Fishnets.Ryan Adams signed a publishing deal with Akashic Books and will be putting out a book of poetry next year. The Ting Tings revealed that... Read more
The Rawking Refuses to Stop! (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
In the latest instance of bloggers getting book deals ("And then he'll blog about the book! ... To other bloggers !"), master tumbr Ryan Adams has signed with Brooklyn indie Akashic Books for a prose work, the New York Post reports . Dudes also call poor Ryan an "emo rocker," and like, nobody's arguing that the guy's got emotions, but c'mon NYP -- that's sloppy reporting, even for you guys. Plus, Ryan...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
The musician/experimental blogger is already publishing a book of poetry, and today's Page Six says he's "signed with indie Brooklyn house Akashic Books" for a "collection of prose." Is it the same...
Paper Thin Walls Bullhorn (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
It's like Bonnaroo for memes.
New York Post (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
EMO rocker Ryan Adams has more to say than can be conveyed in one of his crooning songs or in one of his lengthy missives to Gawker.com. Page Six hears Adams has signed with indie Brooklyn house Akashic Books to publish his still-untitled collection...
Atlantic Yards Report (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
The crime fiction collection Brooklyn Noir was the first in Akashic Books' highly-successful "Noir" series, which now extends to dozens of anthologies. Now Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing but the Truth has been published, the first true-crime collection in the series. The Table of Contents lists not just the chapters but the neighborhoods they're set in, so I was intrigued to see that the collection
CRITICAL MASS (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
Controlled Decay , Akashic Books, 2008. Gabriela Jauregui was born and raised in Mexico City. She graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Riverside. She is a Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellow and a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. The ground you cover is expansive--from the Middle East to the U.S.-Mexico international...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
Borough president Marty Markowitz greeted a throng of New York literati who came out to Brooklyn Heights for a reception last Friday afternoon where he and Akashic Books publisher Johnny Temple (in the red shirt) announced some of the sponsors and celebrity guests for the third annual Brooklyn Book Festival , which will be held on September 14. PEN American Center and Words Without Borders are signing...
Bookgasm (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
If there ever were a town ready-made for the NOIR anthology series from Akashic Books, it’s Vegas. From the introduction of LAS VEGAS NOIR, editors Jarret Keene and Todd James Pierce nail it perfectly, bringing up that some of the true crime that happens there could fill a book of its own. We’re not just [...]
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
Last night, Amanda ReCupido swung by the Mysterious Bookshop for the launch of Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing but the Truth , the latest installment in the award-winning Akashic Books Noir Series, where editors Tim McLoughlin and Thomas Adcock, along with many of the book’s contributors, mixed and mingled and discussed their neighborhood-specific loyalties to the beloved borough. "Each anthology is the...
New Statesman (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
Song for Night Chris Abani Akashic Books, 164pp, £7.99
Brit Lit Blogs (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
By Alex Gildzen. A review of Nina Revoyr ’s The Age of Dreaming (Akashic Books, 2008). We all bring ourselves to a work of art. So indulge me a minute. As a child I learned to love the silent era of filmmaking because of the books of Daniel Blum. I knew all the stars by sight before I’d ever seen their actual films. One of those was Sessue Hayakawa. Of course he was one of the lucky ones who later...
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 02/06/2008
OK, true confessions here. I haven't read Toronto Noir yet, the latest in Akashic Books’ acclaimed “noir” series, which is due out in May. But I’ve been hearing about it for a while. Quite a while. You want a Canadian city that justifies a noir anthology? Think Montreal. Seriously. Or Vancouver. Halifax. Hull. St. John's. Yellowknife. Moncton. Sudbury. Even fucking Moose Jaw. But Toronto? The
Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot (Free subscription) | 01/18/2008
Here's a great opportunity to begin a conversation with Preston L. Allen, author of All or Nothing (Akashic Books 2007). Preston will field your questions with his characteristic wit and tangent. All... Jamaican author Geoffrey Philp interviews Caribbean and South Florida writers and features fiction, poetry, podcasts, and literary events.
casa de Charlotte della luna (Free subscription) | 12/03/2007
If you love New Orleans, stories about New Orleans, poems about New Orleans and some of the best writers from New Orleans and you live in or near NYC, then you won't want to miss a gathering of NoLa writers reading from their books tonight, December 3. I’m literally cutting and pasting this announcement from [...]
