Nightboat Books

  • Curb

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    Winner of the 2022 PEN Open Book Award!

    Winner of the 2022 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award!

    Finalist for the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Awards in Poetry!

    Curb maps our post-9/11 political landscape by locating th

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    • Author: Victor, Divya
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: April 27 2021
    • ISBN10: 1643620703
    • Language: English
  • A Queen in Bucks County

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    2023 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST!

    An epistolary sequence about sex, exchange and social space set along the Northeast Corridor.

    In A Queen in Bucks County, our protagonist Turner, who both is and is … [more below]

    • Author: Gabriel, Kay
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: November 08 2022
    • ISBN10: 1643621491
    • Language: English
  • Honey Mine: Collected Stories

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    Honey Mine unfolds as both excavation and romp, an adventure story that ushers readers into a lesbian writer’s coming of age through disorienting, unsparing, and exhilarating encounters with sex, gend

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    • Author: Roy, Camille
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: June 29 2021
    • ISBN10: 1643620746
    • Language: English
  • Tender Points

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    Tender Points is a narrative fractured by trauma. Named after the diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia, the book-length lyric essay explores sexual violence, chronic pain, and patriarchy through lived… [more below]

    • Author: Berkowitz, Amy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: October 29 2019
    • ISBN10: 1643620282
    • Language: English
  • My Manservant and Me

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    A madcap tale of sadistic power-play by one of the 20th century’s most beloved French gay writers.

    My Manservant and Me is a story about the trials and tribulations of having a live-in valet. Written f… [more below]

    • Author: Guibert, Hervé
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: October 25 2022
    • ISBN10: 1643621521
    • Language: English
  • New Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa Archive: Lectures from the Naropa Archive

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    A collection of lectures transcribed from the audio archives of Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program that represent a continuing lineage of experimental literary movements.

    New Weathers asks us … [more below]

    • Author: Waldman, Anne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: November 08 2022
    • ISBN10: 1643621475
    • Language: English
  • Greasepaint

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    Nylon’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024

    The Paris Review‘s Favorite Books of 2023

    Set against a backdrop of 1950s New York, this experimental novel follows an ensemble cast of all-singing, all-dancing bu[more below]

    • Author: Levene, Hannah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 172
    • Publish Date: February 13 2024
    • ISBN10: 1643622137
    • Language: English
  • Time

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    WINNER of the INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE

    WINNER of the BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD

    FINALIST for the 2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD

    On October 27, 2003, Adnan received a post card of a palm tree fro

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    • Author: Adnan, Etel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: June 18 2019
    • ISBN10: 1643620045
    • Language: English
  • Hydra Medusa

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    ​A book of poetry, dreams and speculative talks, collected from the psychic detritus of living in the US-Mexico borderlands.

    Part coping mechanism, part magical act, Hydra Medusa was composed whi

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    • Author: Shimoda, Brandon
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: June 27 2023
    • ISBN10: 1643621718
    • Language: English
  • Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative Writing 1977-1997

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    This long overdue anthology of New Narrative includes both classic New Narrative texts and rare supplementary materials, allowing the movement fueled by punk, pop, porn, French theory, and social stru… [more below]

    • Author: Killian, Kevin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 544
    • Publish Date: July 03 2017
    • ISBN10: 1937658651
    • Language: English
  • Night

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    Etel Adnan’s evocative new book places night at its center to unearth memories held in the body, the spirit and the landscape. This striking new book continues Adnan’s meditative observation and inqui… [more below]

    • Author: Adnan, Etel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 64
    • Publish Date: August 02 2016
    • ISBN10: 1937658538
    • Language: English
  • Sacred Spells: Collected Works

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    The collected life-work of an interdisciplinary writer, performer, and central figure in the Black Gay cultural arts and AIDS movements.

    In this timely collection of poetry, plays, fiction, and perform… [more below]

    • Author: Saint, Assotto
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 392
    • Publish Date: August 29 2023
    • ISBN10: 1643621564
    • Language: English
  • Return

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    Through the recurrence of memory, myth, and grief, 回 / Return captures the elusory language of sorrow and solitude that binds Taiwanese diasporic experience.

    Rooted in the classical tradition of

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    • Author: Luan, Emily Lee
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: April 23 2023
    • ISBN10: 1643621742
    • Language: English
  • The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void

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    Jackie Wang’s magnetic and spellbinding debut collection of poetry that attempts to speak in the language of dreams.

    • Author: Wang, Jackie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: February 02 2021
    • ISBN10: 1643620363
    • Language: English
  • Sea & Fog

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    These interrelated meditations explore the nature of the individual spirit and the individual spiritedness of the natural world. As skilled a philosopher as she is a poet, in Sea & Fog, Adnan weaves m… [more below]

  • The Fifth Wound

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    Named a must read book of 2023 by Nylon, BookRiot, Vulture , The Millions, and Ms. Magazine!

    A baroque work of intimate myth exploring one woman’s interdimensional search for beauty and embodiment, th[more below]

    • Author: Mattia, Aurora
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: March 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 1643621483
    • Language: English
  • Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color

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    The first major literary anthology for queer poets of color in the United States In 2014, Christopher Soto and Lambda Literary Foundation founded the online journal Nepantla, with the mission to nurtu… [more below]

    • Author: Soto, Christopher
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: 1-May-18
    • ISBN10: 1937658783
    • Language: English
  • We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

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    “Celebratory, even radical”–The New Yorker

    “Monumental”–Hyperallergic

    We Both Laughed In Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan narrates the inner life of a gay man moving through the shifti… [more below]

    • Author: Sullivan, Lou
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 440
    • Publish Date: September 24 2019
    • ISBN10: 1643620177
    • Language: English
  • The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

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    The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry Mitchell with lush illustrations by Ned Asta, published by Calamus Press in 1977. Part-fable, part-ma

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    • Author: Mitchell, Larry
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: July 02 2019
    • ISBN10: 1643620061
    • Language: English
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