Monday, December 20, 2010

Sneak Peek: THE MECHANICS OF HOMOSEXUAL INTERCOURSE by Lonely Christopher

Akashic Books presents a preview of Lonely Christopher's debut
short-story collection, THE MECHANICS OF HOMOSEXUAL
INTERCOURSE, the newest addition to Dennis Cooper's
Little House on the Bowery series.

click images to enlarge text of the story "Milk" (in its entirety below)








"Praise seems superfluous for a book as accomplished, cohesive,
and devastating as Lonely Christopher's debut collection, so consider
these words admiration instead, and admonishment: if you still think
fiction counts for anything, then you should buy this book right now."
--Dale Peck

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

HOLIDAY BOOK SALE


Happy Holidays
from Akashic Books!

We're offering two sales this season:

*** 3 books from the Noir Series for the price of 2 ***
- Order 2 books with credit card from our website
- After you've placed the order, send an email
to Akashic7@aol.com with the title of your third book
- We'll send all 3 books together within 1 - 2 days
- Free shipping/handling! Offer lasts until December 31!


*** 4 books for the price of 3 ***
- Order any 3 Akashic books from our website
- After you've placed the order, send an email
to Akashic7@aol.com with the title of your fourth book
(value must be equal to or lesser than each of the first 3 books)
- We'll send all 4 books together within 1 - 2 days
- Free shipping/handling! Offer lasts until December 31!



Thursday, December 9, 2010

Sneak Peek: COWS, by Matthew Stokoe

Akashic Books is proud to present a preview of the forthcoming
reissue of Matthew Stokoe's debut novel, COWS,
selected by Dennis Cooper for his Little House on the Bowery series.

"[A] phantasmagoria of extreme violence, death, sex, bestiality, self-surgery, torture, and a really, really, really bad mother-son relationship, all of which takes what the marquis de Sade did and pushes it down the road a little farther. Stokoe is an able craftsman, which makes the content all the more horrifying as he blasts through boundaries and finds increasingly twisted ways of making readers squirm." --Publishers Weekly

(click image to enlarge text)






* COWS is available from AkashicBooks.com --
not available in bookstores until February! *