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04/30/2018

We're Live-Tweeting the 2018 Ceremony. Check the Late Night Library Twitter feed tonight beginning at 7:30pm PST for live announcements, delightful commentary, and photos. https://twitter.com/LNLibrary

10/05/2017

“There have been many times in my life when I felt the destruction of the natural world within my body. This was, however, the first time I felt my emotional state was fully manifest. I wanted to live in that space of fire for as long as possible, to surrender myself.” Poet Claudia Savage spoke with us about her new book, BRUISING CONTINENTS (Spuyten Duyvil Press) for .

Claudia F. Savage: Bruising Continents In Bruising Continents (Spuyten Duyvil Press), poet Claudia F. Savage charts an intimate personal landscape of love and longing with the unflinching resolve of an early explorer venturing into the unknown. Natural imagery abounds as Savage’s narrator gathers th...

04/22/2017

Our last Visiting Writers Series event! Thank you Northwest Academy for the 5-year partnership, and thank you Steven Rowley, author of Lily and the Octopus, for a phenomenal concluding event.

04/10/2017

HUGE congratulations to Tyehimba Jess, winner of the 2017 Prize in poetry for OLIO.

01/18/2017

Congratulations to Matthew Griffin, whose stunning debut, HIDE, has won the Crook's Corner Book Prize. (See comments for a link to Griffin's 2016 Late Night Interview discussing HIDE)

Matthew Griffin's graceful novel was selected by the restaurant as the best literary debut set in the South of 2016.

01/17/2017

Congratulations to Tyehimba Jess, whose collection OLIO was just named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award in Poetry! http://latenightlibrary.org/tyehimba-jess/

01/09/2017

“[Some]thing I like about Ukraine (and about most non-American countries, to be honest, but especially Slavic countries) is that there isn’t a relentless focus on “positive thinking,” an expectation that you’ll smile effusively even during the most trivial interactions, or a sense that you’re to blame if you’re ever unhappy.” Sophie Pinkham discusses her nonfiction debut, Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine, with interviewer Zhanna Slor, for

11/16/2016

"I was curious about the events that stand out in a person’s memory for often obscure, private reasons—not the births, weddings, deaths, but the less heralded moments—and how, when we think of the past, the time spanning between those events is often cloudy and vague and fades into the background. Why does a particular memory surface, and not another, when you think of this or that time?" Paula Whyman discusses her debut collection of linked stories, YOU MAY SEE A STRANGER, with interviewer Corinne Gould for this week's

I’m daydreaming about a white box truck. And look, it has just pulled into my driveway. It could be the very one they talked about last night on the news, the one we’re supposed to watch out for and worry about. Except, on the side of this truck there’s a picture of a horse, acontinue reading →

10/31/2016

“I’m far more interested in the strange than the grotesque. To write a ghost story, you don’t need a ghost, just a haunting.” For this Halloween , Jeffrey Ford discusses his latest collection, A NATURAL HISTORY OF HELL, the process of finding the right structure for a given tale, the distinction between strange and grotesque, and creating a menacing mood to give readers “the yips.” http://latenightlibrary.org/jeffrey-ford/

If stories are an attempt to connect with and understand the world, then Jeffrey Ford’s story collection A Natural History of Hell, out now from Small Beer Press, unearths possibilities in our sleeping hearts. The unknowable woods, the rotting house you scurry by as the daylight wanes (but end up ex...

10/28/2016

Congratulations to Aracelis Girmay, Tyehimba Jess, and Solmaz Sharif, whose books were featured among Publisher's Weekly's best poetry books of 2016! Links to their respective Late Night Interviews/Late Night Debut conversation in the comments below! http://best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-books/2016/poetry /book-1

The best books of 2016, chosen by Publishers Weekly editors. The best books in fiction, mysteries, memoirs, romance, comics, kids books, and more.

10/17/2016

In this episode of Late Night Conversation, guest host Emma Jacobs speaks with Lily Hoang, author of A Bestiary, a collection of personal essays modelled on the Chinese Zodiac.

Late Night Conversation, hosted by Emma Jacobs .