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Post: AN INTERVIEW WITH LAURA HENRIKSEN, AUTHOR OF LAURA’S DESIRES
“What do you want?” is a difficult question to answer. Laura’s Desires—by Laura Henriksen, out today from Nightboat—makes a rigorous attempt. What comes forth is an appropriately playful, phantasmagoric set […]
Post: AN INTERVIEW WITH NORA TREATBABY, AUTHOR OF OUR AIR
Adelita Husni-Bey describes Our Air—out today from Nightboat—as “Delphic, ecstatic, erotic, mystical, riotous, erudite.” I would only add the word hilarious. Nora Treatbaby is our lodestar in a strange, hellish landscape, […]
Post: An Interview with Hannah Levene, author of Greasepaint
Below is a conversation between Dante Silva and Hannah Levene to discuss Hannah’s dazzling debut novel Greasepaint. Greasepaint is the portrait of a community staged in a never ending Friday […]
Post: An Interview With Benjamin Friedlander, Co-Editor of Nice: Collected Poems
David Melnick (1938-2022) is remembered as one of the outstanding provocateurs of twentieth-century poetry, a poet “suffocated by meaning,” one who read in glittering platform heels with a glass of […]
Post: Announcing the 2023 Prose Reading Period Selections
This year we received hundreds of submissions to our Prose Reading Period. We are excited to announce that we are accepting two manuscripts for publication! Read more about each of […]
Post: An Interview With Chris Daniels, Translator of One Impossible Step
“My most childish dream is to be translated,” wrote Orides Fontela (b. 1940 in São João da Boa Vista, in the interior of São Paulo). “It’s completely silly, of course. […]
Post: An Interview with Jasmine Gibson, Author of A Beauty Has Come
Jasmine Gibson and I first met and collaborated on a performance project in 2019. Since then, we’ve read together, celebrated and dreamed together. From stages to zoom rooms, I’ve had […]
Post: An Interview With Jon L Pitt, Translator of Tree Spirits Grass Spirits
Hirmoi Ito is one of Japan’s most prominent contemporary writers, and has been since her debut, Kusaki no sora (translated into English as The Plants and the Sky). Her work […]
Post: An Interview With Douglas A. Martin
Photo Credit: Bobby Abate Happiest of birthdays to one of Nightboat’s own, Douglas A. Martin! To celebrate their 50th, we had a conversation with the renowned poet, novelist, scholar, and […]
Post: An Interview With Brian Teare, Author Of Poem Bitten By A Man
Brian Teare’s Poem Bitten By A Man—published today—collages the work of Agnes Martin, Jasper Johns, and others whose work is part of a broader conversation (on art, affect, and all […]
Post: Nightboat’s Curation of the Segue Reading Series this Fall!
We are delighted to announce that Nightboat Books is collaborating with Segue Foundation and curating The Segue Reading Series at Artists Space this Fall! Every Saturday in October and November […]
Post: An Interview With Naima Yael Tokunow, Nightboat’s Inaugural Editorial Fellow
We recently spoke with Nightboat’s inaugural Editorial Fellow, Naima Yael Tokunow, about the creative process of editing, how she found her way to the a/Archive, and what she looks for […]