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Featured: Black Interest

All or Nothing

What William S. Burroughs’ Junky was to heroin addiction, All or Nothing is to gambling, only more prophetic.

Bernice L. McFadden Digit

In honor of her 2012 New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year selection—and in anticipation of the just-released paperback edition of Nowhere Is a Place, our Bernice L. McFadden Digit features excerpts from all four of her Akashic titles: Gathering of Waters, The Warmest December, Glorious, and Nowhere Is a Place.

Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction From Jamaica’s Calabash Writer’s Workshop

Jamaica’s literary lion Colin Channer presents new fiction from the freshest young Jamaican authors and the Calabash International Literary Festival’s Extended Family.

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George Pelecanos — Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (Washington, DC)

5/1/24, 7:00pm

George Pelecanos presents Buster: A Dog

Kevin Holohan — Irish Arts Center (New York, NY)

5/2/24, 7:00pm

Kevin Holohan presents So You Wanna Run a Country? in conversation with Joseph O’Neill

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