Akashic Books, 250 pages, trade paperback, $15.95 Blow. Powder. Snow. Nose candy. Rock. Whatever you may call it, cocaine is a hell of a drug. [...]

Akashic Books, 300 pages, trade paperback, $15.95 It’s scary how transformative drugs can be. Don’t believe me? Sit down and read at least one story [...]

Akashic Books, 275 pages, hardcover, $15.00 Set against the fast-paced backdrop of the publishing world, Boundaries is the story of a Caribbean immigrant struggling to reconcile [...]

Akashic Books, 128 pages, hardcover $23.95 What happens when REM front man Michael Stipe and beloved alt-rock chick Patti Smith collide? You get a photo [...]

Akashic Books, 252 pages, trade paperback, $15.95 Over the years, Akashic Books has built a reputation as a powerhouse independent publisher of gritty noir fiction. Their [...]

Akashic Books, 32 pages, hardcover, $14.95 “The cubs and the lions are snoring, wrapped in a big snuggly heap, how come you can do all [...]

Akashic Books, 330 pages, trade paperback, $15.95 Hazing is messed up: fact. And what’s really weird about it is that even though I’ve known football [...]

Akashic Books, 224 pages, trade paperback, $18.95 You might expect that the debut collection of cartoons from a left-leaning political satirist would excoriate the Tea Party [...]

Akashic Books, 280 pages, trade paperback, $15.95 Yet another in Akashic Books’ award-winning Noir series, Copenhagen Noir takes us to the streets of that selfsame [...]

Akashic Books, 300 pages, trade paperback, $15.95 Akashic Books’ award-winning Noir series returns, this time taking readers to the exotic island of Haiti.  From crooked [...]

Akashic Books, 190 pages, trade paperback, $15.95 In high school, we all knew someone who would say really out of control, risqué, and altogether inappropriate [...]

Akashic Books, 155 pages, trade paperback, $24.95 Ever have the dream of writing a letter to one of your favorite musicians and having them write [...]

Ever have the dream of writing a letter to one of your favorite musicians and having them write back to you? How about writing them a letter, asking them if they’d like for you to make them posters? And then step it up a notch — ever dream of them getting back in touch and offering you a full time job? Probably not, because it sounds awfully far fetched. And certainly not if you’re talking about a band as big as Pearl Jam. But in 1999, a young Brad Klausen — fresh out of school for graphic design — offered his services as an artist, and they offered him a job.

Akashic Books, 120 pages, paperback, $22.95 This book is a reissue of Jay Ryan’s amazing first decade of silk-screened artwork and posters. Several essays serve as introductions [...]

Akashic Books, 150 pages, trade paperback, $15.95 The collaborative Please Take Me Off the Guest List is a book of contradictions. It is a book [...]