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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,…

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November 18, 2021

Remembering Etel Adnan (1925-2021)

Nightboat Books mourns the loss of the luminous poet and painter, Etel Adnan, who died on Sunday, November 14th in Paris at the age of ninety-six. Etel was a generous spirit and guide, always interested in the work of younger and emerging poets, and looking to make connections with artists and writers around the world. Born and raised in Beirut, she lived for many years in Sausalito, California, at the foot of Mount Tamalpais, which inspired many of her paintings, and then in her final years, in Paris's Left Bank and the Brittany coast, near her beloved sea. Etel…

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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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September 14, 2021

Virtual Book Tour for Villainy by Andrea Abi-Karam!

Announcing the Virtual Book Tour for Villainy by Andrea Abi-Karam!   Friday, 9/17 at 4pm PT / 7pm ET hosted by Books Are Magic with NM Esc, Sahar Khraibani, Andrea Lawlor, Eileen Myles & Kamelya Omayma Youssef. RSVP here.   Thursday, 9/23 at 4:30pm PT / 7:30pm ET hosted by Skylight Books with Randa Jarrar. RSVP here.   Tuesday, 9/28 at 6pm PT / 9pm ET hosted by City Lights with Leila Weefur. RSVP here.   Sunday, 10/10 at 4pm PT / 7pm ET hosted by Poetic Research Bureau with Jackie Ess & Fargo Nissim Tbakhi.   Thursday, 10/14 at 7:30pm Central / 8:30pm ET hosted by Poetry & BYOBiscuits.   Saturday, 10/23 hosted by Mizna, time TBA!    Monday, 11/15 at 5:30pm PT / 8:30pm ET hosted by Four Queens with Angel Dominguez.

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September 14, 2021

A Conversation With Andrea Abi-Karam And Evan Kleekamp!

Happy publication day to Villainy by Andrea Abi-Karam! In an interview for the Nightboat Blog, Andrea speaks to Villainy designer and Nightboat editor-at-large Evan Kleekamp (who edited the book alongside editor-at-large Kim Calder), about the political brattiness of…

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August 23, 2021

An Interview With Nightboat Books in Literary Hub!

"Every book has a backstory: to hold one of Nightboat Books’ publications is to have the sense of a longer, more complex, and ultimately more rewarding backstory than most."—Corinne Segal Let Nightboat staff give you a peek into what goes on behind the scenes here at Nightboat Books! Thanks to Literary Hub and Corinne Segal for featuring us in this fantastic series on indie publishers. Click here to read the full interview!

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