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February 18, 2022

Angel Dominguez on the Process of Writing Letters to Their Worst Enemy in Desgraciado

Today on the Nightboat blog, we're celebrating the publication of Angel Dominguez's Desgraciado (the collected letters)! Desgraciado, a project born as a response to the prompt “write a love letter to your worst enemy," is a collection of letters written to Diego de Landa,  a Spanish friar who attempted to destroy the written Maya language in the Yucatán on July 12, 1562 by burning codices, eight centuries of Mayan literature. Intimate and personal, Angel's letters offer a space beyond the temporal to connect more deeply with their family, community, and kin. Take a look at some of the letters and…

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December 21, 2021

Announcing Nightboat New Year’s Promotions!

Happy New Year from Nightboat Books! In 2021, we debuted our subscription program–offering subscribers our complete annual catalog at a 25% discount–and were delighted by the response. For 2022, we’re excited to share that we’ll…

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December 17, 2021

Remembering Red Jordan Arobateau (1943–2021)

Red Jordan Arobateau died on Thursday, November 25, in San Francisco. The painter and literary sensation was seventy-eight years old. He left behind an enormous, unparalleled body of work in fiction, erotica, life writing, poetry, and visual arts. After leaving his home in Chicago as a teenager, Red Jordan Arobateau relocated briefly to New York City before arriving in San Francisco, where he remained for nearly six decades. Arobateau first self-published dyke novels and poetry in the 1970s, and over the years used small presses, gay and lesbian publishers, lesbian bars, and varied forms of self-publishing to share his voluminous…

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November 1, 2021

Paolo Javier on the Comics Titles that Inspired O.B.B.

Today we're celebrating the publication of O.B.B. by Paolo Javier, featuring artwork by Ernest Concepcion and Alexander Tarampi! O.B.B. aka The Original Brown Boy is comprised of a series of comic book collaborations with text and image, as well as poems and essays that expand upon the nature of comics themselves. O.B.B. has many layered and intersecting identities: postcolonial, manifesto, conceptual, collaborative, avant garde, political cartoon, and more. In celebration of the book's release, we're excited to share a list of comics titles that inspired the creation of O.B.B., written by author Paolo Javier. Read on below! (We have attempted…

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October 22, 2021

Announcing the 2021 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 four manuscripts for publication! Read more about each of the manuscripts below:   Greasepaint by Hannah Levene [gallery columns="1" size="large" ids="13366"] Against a backdrop of 1950s America, Greasepaint follows an ensemble cast of all singing, all dancing butch dykes and Yiddish anarchists through eternal Friday nights round the table, and at the bar. Hannah Levene is a writer and poet based in Norwich, UK. Her work has appeared in Hotel, Datableed, -algia, and Spam. Her poetry collection "Boneless Ribs" was published in 2018.…

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September 21, 2021

Joey Yearous-Algozin On Guided Meditations, Ambient Soundscapes And New Age Music For The End Of The World

This week on the Nightboat blog, we're celebrating the recent publication of Joey Yearous-Algozin’s A Feeling Called Heaven with an ambient and New Age mixtape inspired by the book--which takes the form of a guided meditation on human extinction--and compiled by the author himself. Take a listen and let yourself be guided into the present and into oblivion.   I’m sitting on a pew in a church in Brooklyn with my friend Marie. It’s night and we’re there to see Laraaji, the renowned New Age musician and laughter meditation teacher, perform a live set. Before him, the opener, Brooklyn-based musician Rachika…

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