Join Nightboat in celebrating 20 years with a party at El Cid Sunset in Los Angeles Thursday, March 27th, 10pm until late... 4212 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90029 Music by CLARITY Performance by The Illustrious Pearl Hosted by Aurora Mattia Dawn Lundy Martin Mónica de la Torre Rosie Stockton Samiya Bashir
Join us in celebrating the launch of Permanent Record at North Figueroa Bookshop Friday, March 28th, 6-9pm 6040 N Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90042 Readings by: Angel Dominguez Azad Sharma Carrie Hunter Jan-Henry Gray Kevin Holden Lillie Walsh Max Gregg Naima Yael Tokunow P.C. Verrone Stefania Gomez Sueyeun Juliette Lee Talia Fox Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta
Join us in celebrating the launch of Unsex Me Here by Aurora Mattia at Books Are Magic with Emily Zhou.
"We write to probe and traverse the unknown—the poem a soft, pliable device that Mónica de la Torre and Tonya M. Foster explore through swirling semantic permutations, linguistic turns and leaps positioning the apparatus in closer proximity to the heart. The Poetry Project is thrilled to celebrate the release of their new publications, Pause the […]
“Rats thrive in sewers” Samiya Bashir writes in I Hope This Helps, a new genre-bending book drawing on her 2024 exhibition of the same name at The Africa Center, “so maybe I’m thriving.” Across poetry, essays, music, printmaking, and photography, Bashir reflects on decades of artistic metamorphosis within and beyond the limits of reality, time, […]
When living under a state of permanent crisis, containment is shattered, the self is made brutally porous to air, ashes, and rents too high to afford. Yet our attachment to destruction runs unforgivingly deep. When Dawn Lundy Martin and Rosie Stockton speak of love, they speak of its blooming contradictions. Between sweet surrender and the […]
In celebration of our 20th anniversary year, Nightboat Books is thrilled to collaborate on three upcoming events with Tally Ho! Books in Oakland, California. Thursday, May 15th at 7pm don't miss Laura Moriarty & Eric Sneathen Tally Ho! Books is Oakland’s newest independent bookstore. Their vision: “an uncompromising commitment to labor justice, accessibility, community involvement, […]
Nightboat Books and The David Wojnarowicz Foundation present a reading and celebration of David Wojnarowicz’s Memories That Smell Like Gasoline, the last book he wrote before his AIDS-related death. David Michael Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) came to prominence in New York in the 1980s, part of a cohort of East Village artists including Nan Goldin, Kiki Smith, Karen […]
Jzl Jmz launches Local Woman with Callum Angus, author of A Natural History of Transition. Enter: Local Woman, an archetypal figure, fresh from the forest into the streets of Portland, Oregon. She is a Black trans woman, seeking survival and satisfaction, giving seduction, disenfranchisement, and the contradictions of femme womanhood a face, body, and soul. […]
We'll be tabling at the Deep Water Independent Book Fair! The 2nd Annual Book Fair brings together independent presses who play a pivotal role in shaping the current literary landscape. Come browse this year’s selections of recent releases. The exhibiting publishers’ rich catalogs include genre-defying works, celebrated authors, as well as underrepresented writers. Curated by […]
