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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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July 31, 2026

An Interview with Nightboat Editorial Fellow Terrance Wilson Hudson

We recently spoke with Nightboat’s 2025 Editorial Fellow, Terrance Wilson Hudson, about writing like they've got nothing to lose, discovering Lesbian Peoples, and the differences between working in a bookstore versus a publisher. We’re so excited to publish their reissue project, Lesbian Peoples: Material for a Dictionary by Monique Wittig & Sande Zeig, foreword by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, in 2027. Lindsey Boldt & Santi Valencia: How did you first get interested in Monique Wittig & Sande Zeig’s Lesbian Peoples?  What got you fired up about pitching a reprint to Nightboat? Terrance Wilson Hudson: I think I discovered it back in 2022.…

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July 14, 2026

Michelle Tea on Red Jordan Arobateau

The following is Michelle Tea’s foreword to Red Jordan Arobateau’s Time Also Will Make It Interesting: Selected Journals, edited by Cameron Awkward-Rich. I was on my way to interview Red Jordan Arobateau for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, my editor having accepted my pitch for a profile of this incredibly prolific, underappreciated writer. Did Red really live in Nob Hill—Snob Hill, as it was often derided? This seemed incorrect, but maybe I was wrong about Nob Hill? In my mind, Red was a type of queer Bukowski, for his lustiness, the way he claimed getting off as a sort of…

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May 19, 2026

An Interview with Antonio Ochoa, Author of Small Sargasso Mountains / Pequeñas cordilleras de sargazo

Small Sargasso Mountains / Pequeñas cordilleras de sargazo is Antonio Ochoa’s first bilingual collection, a work that moves in spirals of “oscillation between hemispheres,” between poetry and prose,  between Spanish and English, between experience and memory. In this conversation, Ochoa and Dante Silva discuss translation as “transcreation,” Mexico’s colonial and multicultural history, and how the algae species sargassum invokes the interconnected currents of ecology, history, and politics. —Lucia Kan-Sperling Dante Silva: Is this your first translation of your own work? How did working across (and around) languages shape the writing? Antonio Ochoa: Yes, this is the first time that I’ve worked using…

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April 28, 2026

An Interview with Tisa Bryant, Author of Residual

In Residual, Tisa Bryant weaves together memories, scenes from the life of her late mother, and her own research into the lives of other Black women writers and artists into an intimate hybrid memoir. Central to the work is the relation between grief and the archive, and the way the latter can act as “a site of Black life and afterlife, presence being asserted, reframed, affirmed.” In this conversation, we discuss “spiral retelling,” the many definitions of “residue,” and how writing can inhabit a “death-bent sense of time.” —Lucia Kan-Sperling Lucia Kan-Sperling: The title Residual points both to a surplus and a…

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