Akashic Books imprint: 303 books

Launched by the summer '04 award-winning bestseller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. In this chilling portrait...

"For readers who enjoy edgy rambles through the rock and roll life, 131 Different Things will be a journey worth taking." --The Current’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Book Club "An engaging novella about a few jaded Lower East Side bartenders and their drug and booze filled quest to find...

“Thoroughly entertaining . . . from desperate writing students in Missoula to a van of itinerant strippers working the Hi-Line paralleling the Canadian border.” —Publishers Weekly A Parade Magazine “Books We Love” Pick The Big Sky State may seem to lack the shadowy urban mazes...

"Jones has learned-and this has been very rare in jazz criticism-to write about music as an artist."-Nat Hentoff ks Black Music is a book about the brilliant young jazz musicians of the early 1960s: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Archie...

Ziggy Marley in Concert was awarded a 2014 Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album! "A sweetly affectionate ode to togetherness and love." --Publishers Weekly "Lyrics inspired by an exchange with Marley's 3-year-old daughter are set to bright paintings of a multicultural cast...

New Orleans is a great city for regionally-themed books. Akashic Books Noir Series is selling great; nearly every title has gone into multiple printings. Whole series to be promoted at major trade conferences and mystery conferences. Major media push: print, radio, television.

10,000-copy first printing Revoyr has a very large profile in Southern California and around the country. Push for library sales. Submit for major literary awards. Revoyr is a house favorite at Akashic Books.

The original San Francisco Noir is one of the top-selling titles in the Akashic Books Noir Series, now in its third printing.

A true believer is faced with a choice between love for his family and the Cuban Revolution. "Daring, tough, and deeply compassionate, Achy Obejas's Ruins is a breathtaker. Obejas writes like an angel, which is to say: gloriously . . . one of the Cuba's most important writers." -Junot...

“Authors whose dark take on humanity would be familiar to the likes of Cornell Woolrich and Jim Thompson. Story after story offers haunting images.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review The more you watch Moscow, the more it looks like a huge chameleon that keeps changing its face—and...

Akashic Books Noir Series is selling great; nearly every title has gone into multiple printings. Whole series to be promoted at major trade conferences and mystery conferences. Major media push: print, radio, television.

--The first French selection of the Akashic Books Noir Series.

"Readers should be prepared to keep the lights on at night after finishing this unnerving collection." --Publishers Weekly "A gripping collection...Whether you are already a fan of the gloomy Finns or are new to the uniquely sinister aspect of Scandinavian literature, this book...

--The first selectin of the Akashic Books Noir Series translated from Italian.