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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

Archival, Poetry
Devour Me, Again: Poems

Bambi Lake

Brontez Purnell

Archival, Memoir
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

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June 11, 2026

Nightboat to reissue ‘Stone Butch Blues’ by Leslie Feinberg in 2027

Nightboat is overjoyed to share that we’re reissuing Leslie Feinberg’s classic of revolutionary queer literature, Stone Butch Blues, in paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats in Fall 2027! Leslie Feinberg’s novel, first published by Firebrand Books in 1993 and long out of print, is a groundbreaking semi-autobiographical narrative of transgender experience that follows its narrator, Jess Goldberg, as she navigates coming out as butch in the bars and factories of the pre-feminist '60s and then passing as a man in order to survive when left without work or a community in the early '70s. As Feinberg said, “[With] this novel I…

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