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November 18, 2022

Interview with Jeffrey Zuckerman, the translator of Hervé Guibert’s My Manservant and Me!

To celebrate the recent publication of My Manservant and Me by Hervé Guibert, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman, poet & past Nightboat Intern Ryan Cook speaks with Jeffrey about translation, big universal brands like Nike and McDonalds, and Guibert's body of work. Take a look below! ______________________________ Ryan Cook: I wanted to start by asking what your relationship to Hervé Guibert’s work is? When did you first learn about him, and how has his writing affected your life on a personal level? Jeffrey Zuckerman: So, I first discovered Guibert when I was just out of college—I was working as an editorial assistant at…

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October 21, 2022

Interview with imogen xtian smith, author of stemmy things!

Girl-thems rejoice! The publication day for imogen xtian smith’s stemmy things has arrived. To celebrate, poet & past Nightboat Intern Ryan Cook speaks with imogen about communal spaces, SOPHIE, being “hot for long ass poems”, and more. Take a look below! _________________________ Ryan: First off, I wanted to thank you so much for creating this book and answering some questions about it. As a trans person myself, I really found that the language and themes resonated with me. I particularly loved the colloquialisms, puns, and jargon that weave themselves within the poems in this collection. “Wild geese with transexuals & acid”…

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September 8, 2022

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 (excluding the weekend of Thanksgiving), we are thrilled to be hosting readings from a dynamic cohort of writers. Each event is in-person, located at Artists Space: 11 Cortlandt Alley, New York, NY 10013. Each reading will also be live-streamed on Zoom and archived. Doors open at 4:30pm, and the readings begins promptly at 5pm. The admission is $5, and all proceeds go directly to the readers.   Here is the calendar: October 1 Allison Cobb…

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May 17, 2022

TC Tolbert, Author of Gephyromania, Speaks to Nightboat Fellow Snigdha Koirala!

Happy publication the reprint of TC Tolbert's Gephyromania! TC and Nightboat fellow Snigdha Koirala celebrate by discussing silence, in-betweeness, and more. Take a look below! ___________________________________ Snigdha: Gephyromania is concerned with a kind of in-betweeness—and the title nods to this. But I was also struck by the ways in which the collection ponders or wrestles with absence. You write, “In absentia. We dress./ the story of cleavage unwritten./ Erased.” How did the relationship between the two inform your writing process? TC: I grew up in the south as a white Pentecostal girl. The institutions I was immersed in (and brain washed by – whiteness…

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April 26, 2022

Janice Lobo Sapigao, Author of like a solid to a shadow, Speaks to Nightboat Fellow Snigdha Koirala

Happy pub day to Janice Lobo Sapigao's like a solid to a shadow! Janice and Nightboat fellow Snigdha Koirala celebrate the reissue of her second collection by discussing translation, documentary poetics, and the various registers of language running through her book. Take a look below! ___________________________ Snigdha: like a solid to a shadow takes on the project of translating your father’s love letters to your mother in cassette form. And it involves you working with Ilokano—a language of which you have imperfect knowledge. What was this process of translating like? Did this limited knowledge of Ilokano trouble your relationship with language…

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