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Featured Books

Archival, Intergenre, Fiction, Art
The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions

Larry Mitchell

Ned Asta

Memoir, Archival, Intergenre
We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

Lou Sullivan

Ellis Martin

Zach Ozma

Poetry
Perennial Counterpart

Yongyu Chen

Poetry, Archival
Devour Me, Again: Collected Poems

Bambi Lake

Brontez Purnell

Memoir, Archival
Time Also Will Make It Interesting: Selected Journals

Red Jordan Arobateau

Michelle Tea

Poetry
raw & zero

imogen smith

Poetry
Small Sargasso Mountains / Pequeñas cordilleras de sargazo

Antonio Ochoa

Intergenre, Poetry
The pedestrian

Valerie Hsiung

Poetry
B-Dragon Suite

Stine An

Fiction
Tricyclist

Joon Oluchi Lee

Poetry
The Hummingbird

Matt Longabucco

Poetry
The Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in Your Ear, Thriving Slumber

Jay Gao

Interviews |
September 29, 2026

An Interview with Joon Oluchi Lee, Author of Tricyclist

Joon Oluchi Lee’s Tricyclist, out now from Nightboat, is interested in the instability of things. It’s a novel that turns identities, desires, and relationships inside out, along with the meanings we make from them. Here, I spoke with Lee about porn magazines (he’s decidedly in favor), misrecognition, and the strange, sensual work of turning materiality into feeling.  —Dante Silva Dante Silva: Why Tricyclist? What made that the right title? Joon Oluchi Lee: I’m always interested in the process of becoming whoever you are going to become—I don’t believe that anyone ever completes that process in their life (if they do, they are…

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