Benay is honored to welcome our newest client, Akashic Books. Akashic is an independent publisher of
literary fiction and political nonfiction dedicated to amplifying the voice of
authors being ignored by larger media companies. Their recent release, Go the F**k to Sleep, has hit the New York Times, Wall Street
Journal, Publishers Weekly and IndieBound
bestseller lists. The audio book is
narrated by none other than Samuel L. Jackson, the F-word artist of our time.
Akashic’s catalog satisfies a wide range of readers with
titles from criminal fiction like The
Cocaine Chronicles, by Gary Phillips and Jervey Tervalo, and The Plot Against Hip Hop, by Nelson
George, to truly novel non-fiction, including the latest political cartoon and
commentary release by Mr. Fish, GO FISH:
How to Win Contempt and Influence People.
These are published side-by-side with the ambitious Noir series, a collection of crime stories by genre-writing
geniuses and literary fiction greats with volumes creeping from the
sunset-shadowed alleys of San Francisco to sweltering Haiti nights.
Akashic likely gets its rock star attitude and bold strides
toward success from its Editor in Chief, Johnny Temple. Temple plays bass for the band Girls Against
Boys (styled GVSB). Among his other
duties, Temple finds time to organize the popular Brooklyn Book Festival.
With a diverse, competent staff, fresh and
fearless authors, and one foot firmly planted in success, Akashic is poised to
become a growing, maverick force in the publishing world.
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