http://latenightlibrary.org The all-hours home of debut books. Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:02:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 The all-hours home of debut books. Late Night Library no Late Night Library candanceopper@gmail.com candanceopper@gmail.com (Late Night Library) The all-hours home of debut books. http://latenightlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/LNL-logo_1400.jpg http://latenightlibrary.org http://latenightlibrary.org/edward_champion/ http://latenightlibrary.org/edward_champion/#comments Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:38:23 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=2373 http://latenightlibrary.org/edward_champion/feed/ 0 late night conversation,podcasts Welcome to Late Night Conversation. This week host Paul Martone talks to Edward Champion, producer of The Bat Segundo Show—a cultural radio program devoted to quirky and very thorough long-form interviews with contemporary authors, Welcome to Late Night Conversation. This week host Paul Martone talks to Edward Champion, producer of The Bat Segundo Show—a cultural radio program devoted to quirky and very thorough long-form interviews with contemporary authors, idiosyncratic thinkers, and other assorted artists. Things get heated when Paul questions Ed about his introductory comments in a recent episode of The Bat Segundo Show. After a brief hiatus, Ed and the show returned to regular programming, partly because Ed was informed by a number of author friends that certain interviewers were not reading their books. "If you can't read the book that someone has toiled on for years of their life, and they're sitting in front of you, what's the point of having a conversation?" Ed asks. Ed's monologue raises provokative questions about journalistic responsibility. Who are the "grim, boorish, illiterate, and opportunistic" interview hosts Ed is referring to? Should interviewers always read an author’s book in advance of a conversation? We want you to participate in the debate. Tune in to be part of the conversation. If you are actually doing any kind of interview and you have not read the book, you are pretty much no different from anybody else. My goal is to try to find forms of inquiry that are unlike anybody else. Listen here... Subscribe at iTunes Listen at Stitcher SmartRadio About our guest: Edward Champion is a writer and journalist in Brooklyn. He is the producer of The Bat Segundo Show and managing editor of Reluctant Habits. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Newsday, The Philly Inquirer, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Guardian, and other esteemed and disreputable publications. Late Night Library no 46:18 http://latenightlibrary.org/exposing_the_process_of_exposure_noviolet_bulwayos_we_need_new_names/ http://latenightlibrary.org/exposing_the_process_of_exposure_noviolet_bulwayos_we_need_new_names/#comments Fri, 07 Jun 2013 22:54:18 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=2349 http://latenightlibrary.org/exposing_the_process_of_exposure_noviolet_bulwayos_we_need_new_names/feed/ 0 http://latenightlibrary.org/one-cup-of-curiosity-thawed-in-conversation-with-sarah-gerkensmeyer/ http://latenightlibrary.org/one-cup-of-curiosity-thawed-in-conversation-with-sarah-gerkensmeyer/#comments Tue, 04 Jun 2013 22:15:04 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=2275 http://latenightlibrary.org/one-cup-of-curiosity-thawed-in-conversation-with-sarah-gerkensmeyer/feed/ 0 http://latenightlibrary.org/a-provisional-limbo-sarah-gerkensmeyers-what-you-are-now-enjoying/ http://latenightlibrary.org/a-provisional-limbo-sarah-gerkensmeyers-what-you-are-now-enjoying/#comments Tue, 04 Jun 2013 22:03:44 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=2270 http://latenightlibrary.org/a-provisional-limbo-sarah-gerkensmeyers-what-you-are-now-enjoying/feed/ 0 http://latenightlibrary.org/amy-leachs-things-that-are/ http://latenightlibrary.org/amy-leachs-things-that-are/#comments Fri, 31 May 2013 13:55:34 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=2287 http://latenightlibrary.org/amy-leachs-things-that-are/feed/ 0 essays,late night debut,nonfiction Welcome to Late Night Debut! This month we feature Amy Leach's Things That Are, a collection of essays that chronicles the bizarre beauty of the natural world, from sea cucumbers to red giants. "Reading these essays was like watching a National Geograp... Welcome to Late Night Debut! This month we feature Amy Leach's Things That Are, a collection of essays that chronicles the bizarre beauty of the natural world, from sea cucumbers to red giants. "Reading these essays was like watching a National Geographic special written by alchemical poets," wrote The Rumpus. Complete with woodcut-inspired illustrations by Nate Christopherson, this collection rouses memories of a wide-eyed and childlike appreciation for nature, except with the insight and eloquence of the talented Amy Leach. Act 1: Host Paul Martone covers controversial and entertaining book stories in the news Act 2: Co-hosts Carter Sickels and Alexis Smith discuss Amy's debut Act 3: Managing editor Candace Opper talks with Amy about the genesis of her collection, writing about science, and the symbiosis between music and writing. It was hard for me to let the book go because I had been working on it for quite a while and would have kept working on it, probably forever, except it got published. For me, the main experience with publishing the book is that I can't revise it anymore. Listen here... Subscribe at iTunes Listen at Stitcher SmartRadio About Amy Leach: Amy Leach’s work has been published in A Public Space, Tin House, Orion, the Los Angeles Review, and many others. She has been recognized with the Whiting Writers’ Award, Best American Essays selections, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award, and a Pushcart Prize. She plays bluegrass, teaches English, and lives in Montana. Things That Are is her first book. About our co-hosts: Carter Sickels is the author of the novel The Evening Hour, a Finalist for the 2013 Oregon Book Award, the Lambda Literary Debut Fiction Award, and the Publishing Triangle Edmund White Debut Fiction Award. Carter is the recipient of a 2013 artistic grant from the Regional Arts & Culture Council, and winner of the 2013 Lambda Literary EmergingWriter Award. Carter has taught creative writing classes for IPRC, Hugo House, and Gotham Writers’ Workshop. He is currently Visiting Faculty for West Virginia Wesleyan's Low Res MFA Program. Carter lives in Portland, Oregon. Alexis M. Smith grew up in Soldotna, Alaska, and Seattle, Washington. She received an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College. Her debut novel, Glaciers (Tin House, 2012), was a finalist for the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction. Glaciers has been translated into Spanish and Italian, and a U.K. edition will be published in July 2013. She lives in Portland, Oregon.   Thanks for listening, and most of all, for reading.   Late Night Library no 32:22 http://latenightlibrary.org/tumbles-from-sky-to-earth-sascha-altman-dubruls-maps-to-the-other-side/ http://latenightlibrary.org/tumbles-from-sky-to-earth-sascha-altman-dubruls-maps-to-the-other-side/#comments Mon, 27 May 2013 14:08:13 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=2263 http://latenightlibrary.org/tumbles-from-sky-to-earth-sascha-altman-dubruls-maps-to-the-other-side/feed/ 0 http://latenightlibrary.org/joe-biel/ http://latenightlibrary.org/joe-biel/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 12:18:30 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=2236 http://latenightlibrary.org/joe-biel/feed/ 0 independent publishing,late night conversation,portland Welcome to Late Night Conversation. This week we feature Joe Biel, founder of Microcosm Publishing—a small, charming, and radical publishing house in Portland, Oregon that has developed a reputation for teaching self-empowerment, Welcome to Late Night Conversation. This week we feature Joe Biel, founder of Microcosm Publishing—a small, charming, and radical publishing house in Portland, Oregon that has developed a reputation for teaching self-empowerment, showing hidden histories, and fostering creativity. Managing editor Candace Opper interviewed Joe in a loft above Microcosm's southeast Portland storefront, packed floor to ceiling with books and zines. They talk about the history and genesis of zine culture, zine-friendly communities around the globe, and why it's way cooler to sell fifty things at one dollar than five things at ten dollars. Within the first three or four years it was apparent that there was a lot of potential and that this was an under-utilized service. People are very good at making things. The biggest comparison I can think to is more of a contrast. There are a ton of people who curate experimental films and do distribution. There aren't nearly as many people making those films, weirdly enough. Whereas with zines, it is exactly the opposite. Everybody and their brother and their mom and their dog makes a zine.   Listen here... Subscribe at iTunes Listen at Stitcher SmartRadio About our guest: Joe Biel is a writer, activist, journalist, filmmaker, teacher, and publisher. He founded Microcosm Publishing and the imprint Cantankerous Titles, which have published over 300 titles and sold over one million "classic format" paper books. He cofounded the Portland Zine Symposium and is the author of Beyond the Music, Make a Zine, and The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting. He has been featured in Publisher's Weekly, Time Magazine, Broken Pencil, Maximumrocknroll, the Oregonian, Portland Mercury, Punk Planet Magazine, Readymade Magazine, and the Utne Reader. He lives in Portland, Oregon and is about to release the documentary Aftermass: Bicycling in a Post-Critical Mass Portland. Joe is currently on the Dinner and Bikes Tour—a month-long tour of the central and northeastern U.S. offering events that bring people together to eat delicious food and get inspired about bicycle transportation. For more information, check out the Dinner and Bikes blog. Late Night Library no 41:02 http://latenightlibrary.org/beyond-the-smoke-and-concrete-michele-forbess-ghost-moth/ http://latenightlibrary.org/beyond-the-smoke-and-concrete-michele-forbess-ghost-moth/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 15:12:00 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=2228 http://latenightlibrary.org/beyond-the-smoke-and-concrete-michele-forbess-ghost-moth/feed/ 0 http://latenightlibrary.org/a-map-at-the-back-of-the-room-in-conversation-with-aisha-sabatini-sloan/ http://latenightlibrary.org/a-map-at-the-back-of-the-room-in-conversation-with-aisha-sabatini-sloan/#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 14:59:39 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=2090 http://latenightlibrary.org/a-map-at-the-back-of-the-room-in-conversation-with-aisha-sabatini-sloan/feed/ 0 http://latenightlibrary.org/laurie_liss/ http://latenightlibrary.org/laurie_liss/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 13:15:37 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=2179 http://latenightlibrary.org/laurie_liss/feed/ 0 late night conversation Welcome to Late Night Conversation. This week we feature Laurie Liss, Vice President and Partner at Sterling Lord Literistic. Paul and Laurie discuss the many hats she wears as a literary agent, her discovery of one of the best-selling novels of the tw... Welcome to Late Night Conversation. This week we feature Laurie Liss, Vice President and Partner at Sterling Lord Literistic. Paul and Laurie discuss the many hats she wears as a literary agent, her discovery of one of the best-selling novels of the twentieth century, Rachel Maddow's work ethic, the importance of being good at your day job if you happen to be a writer, and a slew of other topics. "My mantra is: advice is free. I talk to lots of writers who I will never, ever represent. Maybe they're looking for an agent, or they may be the best friend of one of my clients, or the best friend of my best friend. In those situations I have nothing to lose."   Listen here... Subscribe at iTunes Listen at Stitcher SmartRadio About our guest: Laurie Liss is Vice President and Partner at Sterling Lord Literistic. She represents authors of commercial and literary fiction and nonfiction whose perspectives are well developed and unique. She has made it a point of her career to nurture young and unpublished authors, as well as self-published and ‘under-published’ writers. Her list represents her broad-based tastes, but generally she looks for books with heart, which will positively impact society. Her clients include: Richard Paul Evans, Rachel Maddow, Dave Pelzer, Clark Howard, Malachy McCourt, Shankar Vedantam, Darcie Chan, Matt Richtel, Obert Skye, Francesca Lia Block, Hillary Carlip, Dr. Steve Schlozman, Janet Reitman, Julie Shigekuni, and Michael Morris. Late Night Library no 35:46 http://latenightlibrary.org/vignettes-of-travel-and-loss-zubair-ahmeds-city-of-rivers/ http://latenightlibrary.org/vignettes-of-travel-and-loss-zubair-ahmeds-city-of-rivers/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 14:08:40 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=2163 http://latenightlibrary.org/vignettes-of-travel-and-loss-zubair-ahmeds-city-of-rivers/feed/ 0 http://latenightlibrary.org/shara-lessleys-two-headed-nightingale/ http://latenightlibrary.org/shara-lessleys-two-headed-nightingale/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:36:20 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=2119 http://latenightlibrary.org/shara-lessleys-two-headed-nightingale/feed/ 0 late night debut,poetry Welcome to Late Night Debut. This month we feature poet Shara Lessley's debut collection, Two-Headed Nightingale. Shara's collection has been described as a confluence between the natural world and the world of female performers, Welcome to Late Night Debut. This month we feature poet Shara Lessley's debut collection, Two-Headed Nightingale. Shara's collection has been described as a confluence between the natural world and the world of female performers, filled with things deviant, anatomical, and dark. "It’s a vision of the natural world that fuses the sensibilities of Audubon and Ernst Haeckel, the science illustrator, whose work often has a near-sci-fi vibe (lovely but alien)," poet Bruce Snider wrote in Poetry Magazine. "I especially love Lessley’s dark, scrutinizing nature poems about subjects as various as ghost moths, icebergs, and dead starlings, all rendered with a profound sense of their monstrous beauty." Act 1: Host Paul Martone covers controversial and entertaining book stories in the news Act 2: Co-hosts Lucas Bernhardt and Sarah Seybold discuss Shara's debut Act 3: Paul catches up with Shara, who is currently working on her next manuscript and living with her family in Jordan The performance is often a kind of annihilation. That's part of the bleakness of it. Even taking a work of art which has been interpreted as a kind of positive expression of somebody making progress. There's a fairly persistant message that self expression isn't always what it seems. —Lucas Bernhardt on "Song for the Catatonic" Listen here... Subscribe at iTunes Listen at Stitcher SmartRadio About Shara Lessley: Shara Lessley is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. Her awards include an Artist Fellowship from the State of North Carolina, the Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, Colgate University’s O’Connor Fellowship, The Gilman School’s Tickner Fellowship, and a “Discovery” / The Nation prize. Shara’s poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Threepenny Review, The Missouri Review, and New England Review, among others. She currently lives in the Middle East where she’s completing her second collection, tentatively titled The Explosive Expert’s Wife. About our co-hosts: Lucas Bernhardt holds degrees from Portland State University and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. He teaches writing at Portland State University and is poetry editor of Propeller Quarterly.     Sarah Seybold's poetry, fiction, and memoir have appeared or are forthcoming in ZYZZYVA, North Dakota Quarterly, Gargoyle, Cold Mountain Review, So to Speak, and elsewhere. She is a staff writer for Propeller Magazine. Sarah earned her MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the University of Oregon. Originally from Indiana, she lives and teaches in Portland, Oregon.       Late Night Library no 38:44 http://latenightlibrary.org/ive-gone-from-here-to-the-floorboards-a-conversation-with-ivy-page/ http://latenightlibrary.org/ive-gone-from-here-to-the-floorboards-a-conversation-with-ivy-page/#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:14:09 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=2097 http://latenightlibrary.org/ive-gone-from-here-to-the-floorboards-a-conversation-with-ivy-page/feed/ 0 http://latenightlibrary.org/lysley-tenorio/ http://latenightlibrary.org/lysley-tenorio/#comments Sat, 20 Apr 2013 13:35:49 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=2069 http://latenightlibrary.org/lysley-tenorio/feed/ 0 late night conversation Welcome to Late Night Conversation. This week Paul talks to Lysley Tenorio, whose debut story collection, Monstress, was published by Ecco in 2012. Late Night Library featured Monstress on Late Night Debut last July, Welcome to Late Night Conversation. This week Paul talks to Lysley Tenorio, whose debut story collection, Monstress, was published by Ecco in 2012. Late Night Library featured Monstress on Late Night Debut last July, and Lysley read at our In and Out of Town Reading Series with Leni Zumas in October. Ecco describes Monstress as a luminous collection of heartbreaking, vivid, startling, and gloriously unique stories set amongst the Filipino-American communities of California and the Philippines. NPR wrote, "Tenorio, born in the Philippines and raised in California, has taken a uniquely Filipino-American perspective, polyglot and glittering with cinema dreams, and used it to make a bold collection of stories of the rejected, the helpless and the lost. Montress is the debut of a singular talent." Paul and Lysley talk about the editorial process, the Ecco Imprint, and the beauty of the strange and unusual.  I've always liked weird things. I like weird creatures. I like old illustrations of freaky things from nature. They really do possess a kind of alienness that inherently possesses a kind of beauty. —Lysley Listen here... Subscribe at iTunes Listen at Stitcher SmartRadio About our guest: Lysley Tenorio’s stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares, Manoa, and The Best New American Voices and The Pushcart Prize anthologies. A winner of the Whiting Writer’s Award and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he has received fellowships from the University of Wisconsin, Phillips Exeter Academy, Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Born in the Philippines, he currently lives in San Francisco and is an associate professor at Saint Mary’s College of California.   Late Night Library no 28:48 http://latenightlibrary.org/falling-through-the-cracks-dan-josefsons-thats-not-a-feeling/ http://latenightlibrary.org/falling-through-the-cracks-dan-josefsons-thats-not-a-feeling/#comments Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:58:56 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=2056 http://latenightlibrary.org/falling-through-the-cracks-dan-josefsons-thats-not-a-feeling/feed/ 0 http://latenightlibrary.org/winner-of-the-read-like-you-mean-it-poster-contest/ http://latenightlibrary.org/winner-of-the-read-like-you-mean-it-poster-contest/#comments Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:07:53 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=2004 http://latenightlibrary.org/winner-of-the-read-like-you-mean-it-poster-contest/feed/ 0 http://latenightlibrary.org/simply-animal-stephanie-pippins-the-messenger/ http://latenightlibrary.org/simply-animal-stephanie-pippins-the-messenger/#comments Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:55:30 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=1984 http://latenightlibrary.org/simply-animal-stephanie-pippins-the-messenger/feed/ 0 http://latenightlibrary.org/t-geronimo-johnsons-hold-it-til-it-hurts/ http://latenightlibrary.org/t-geronimo-johnsons-hold-it-til-it-hurts/#comments Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:04:51 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=1922 http://latenightlibrary.org/t-geronimo-johnsons-hold-it-til-it-hurts/feed/ 0 fiction,late night debut Welcome to Late Night Debut! This month we feature T. Geronimo Johnson's debut novel, Hold It 'Til It Hurts, published in 2012 by Coffee House Press. Johnson's narrative follows Achilles, a black Afghanistan veteran in search of his lost brother amid t... Welcome to Late Night Debut! This month we feature T. Geronimo Johnson's debut novel, Hold It 'Til It Hurts, published in 2012 by Coffee House Press. Johnson's narrative follows Achilles, a black Afghanistan veteran in search of his lost brother amid the chaos of Hurricane Katrina. ZYZZYVA Magazine called it an "odyssey through wartime America and an eventually devastated New Orleans. [Johnson's] ability to precisely describe the depths of a young man inoculated against both love and violence shocks us, again and again." Act One: Host Paul Martone covers controversial and entertaining book stories in the news Act Two: Co-hosts Michael Copperman and Heather Ryan discuss Johnson's debut Act Three: Steven Clauw, Late Night Library's Communications Director, talks with Anitra Budd, Managing Editor at Coffee House Press Click here for Steven Clauw's interview with T. Geronimo Johnson. I think we should take a second to just note the ambition of this novel...how much it takes on about the last decade is amazing and mostly carried off in a tour de force fashion. —Michael Copperman Listen here... Subscribe on iTunes  Listen at Stitcher SmartRadio About T. Geronimo Johnson: T. Geronimo Johnson was born in New Orleans. His fiction and poetry has appeared in Best New American Voices, Indiana Review, LA Review, and Illuminations, among others. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford, Johnson teaches writing at University of California–Berkeley.     About our co-hosts: Michael Copperman’s work has been featured in The Sun, The Oxford-American, Creative Nonfiction, Gulf Coast, Guernica, Copper Nickel, Unsaid, Post Road and Southword, among others. He is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Munster Literature Center, the Oregon Arts Council, Literary Arts, and Breadloaf Writers Conference. From 2002-04 he taught fourth grade in the rural black public schools of the Mississippi Delta with Teach For America, and his memoir-in-progress, Gone, concerns that experience.   Heather Ryan writes fiction and non-fiction, and her work has appeared on NPR and Salon.  She also writes for money, and her work has appeared in technical manuals, online education sites, and even in the office of a Malibu plastic surgeon.  Her graphic novel The Imaginarium--about what happens when a teenage boy descends into the dark, fairy-tale world of schizophrenia--is forthcoming in 2013.  She expects to finish her memoir Now Entering America in 2013.  She teaches at Lane Community College, and is a single parent to three kids.   Thanks for listening, and most of all, for reading.   Late Night Library no 39:52 http://latenightlibrary.org/a-thrice-recorded-conversation-with-t-geronimo-johnson/ http://latenightlibrary.org/a-thrice-recorded-conversation-with-t-geronimo-johnson/#comments Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:01:17 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=1941 http://latenightlibrary.org/a-thrice-recorded-conversation-with-t-geronimo-johnson/feed/ 0 http://latenightlibrary.org/satirizing-wars-inscrutable-logic-david-abramss-fobbit/ http://latenightlibrary.org/satirizing-wars-inscrutable-logic-david-abramss-fobbit/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:26:43 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=1907 http://latenightlibrary.org/satirizing-wars-inscrutable-logic-david-abramss-fobbit/feed/ 0 http://latenightlibrary.org/gregory-martin/ http://latenightlibrary.org/gregory-martin/#comments Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:21:06 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=1892 http://latenightlibrary.org/gregory-martin/feed/ 0 late night conversation,memoir,nonfiction Welcome to Late Night Conversation! This week we feature writer Gregory Martin, whose most recent memoir, Stories For Boys, resonates in the ongoing dialogue around gender and sexuality. Gregory's personal narrative follows his struggle to reconcile th... Welcome to Late Night Conversation! This week we feature writer Gregory Martin, whose most recent memoir, Stories For Boys, resonates in the ongoing dialogue around gender and sexuality. Gregory's personal narrative follows his struggle to reconcile the idea he had of his father with a man who has survived a suicide attempt, revealed decades of infidelity, and is beginning a new life as a gay man. Cheryl Strayed described the book as "a magnetic meditation on what happens when a decades-long lie is brutally revealed. Moving, brave, and unforgettable, this deeply personal book pushes us all further into the light." Paul and Gregory talk about his relationship with his family in relation to Stories for Boys, the memoir-writing process, and his evolution as a writer. I thought this was a story worth telling. I felt like nothing in fiction that I could come up with could present itself as interesting and compelling. Listen here... Subscribe at iTunes Listen at Stitcher SmartRadio About our guest: Gregory Martin is the author of the memoirs Mountain City (North Point Press 2001) and Stories for Boys (Hawthorne Books 2012). His work has appeared in The Sun, Kenyon Review Online, Creative Nonfiction, Storyquarterly, and Orion. Martin teaches creative writing at the University of New Mexico and lives in Albuquerque with his wife and two sons. Late Night Library no 35:04 http://latenightlibrary.org/waiting-for-the-happy-times-to-end-jim-gavins-middle-men/ http://latenightlibrary.org/waiting-for-the-happy-times-to-end-jim-gavins-middle-men/#comments Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:09:24 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=1859 http://latenightlibrary.org/waiting-for-the-happy-times-to-end-jim-gavins-middle-men/feed/ 0 http://latenightlibrary.org/andi-zeisler/ http://latenightlibrary.org/andi-zeisler/#comments Sun, 10 Mar 2013 15:09:49 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=1828 http://latenightlibrary.org/andi-zeisler/feed/ 0 late night conversation,nonprofit,portland Welcome to Late Night Conversation! This week we feature Andi Zeisler, co-founder and editorial/creative director at Bitch Media. Bitch Media is the nonprofit organization best known for publishing the magazine Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture. Welcome to Late Night Conversation! This week we feature Andi Zeisler, co-founder and editorial/creative director at Bitch Media. Bitch Media is the nonprofit organization best known for publishing the magazine Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture. Since 1996, the magazine has provided smart, witty, and thought-provoking commentary on and analysis of TV, film, music, advertising, books, and more. They are dedicated to providing and encouraging an engaged, thoughtful feminist response to mainstream media and popular culture. There is something wonderful about a magazine as a tangible object. I think a lot of our readers are people who really respond to that and who would be very sad to lose it...Magazines are being launched and created as each publication's beautiful objects that aren't necessarily meant to be read and recycled; they're meant to be shared and kept and put in your library alongside books. —Andi Former Late Night Library intern Jyoti Roy guest hosts this episode. She and Andi discuss the reclaiming of the word "bitch," the history of the magazine, and the evolution of feminism in the U.S. since the 1980s. Listen here... Subscribe at iTunes Listen at Stitcher SmartRadio About our guest: Andi Zeisler is the co-founder of Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture. A longtime freelance writer and illustrator, her work has appeared in such publications as Ms., Mother Jones, Utne, BUST, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Andi speaks frequently on the subject of feminism and the media at various colleges and universities, and is currently working on a second book about feminism and popular culture. About our guest host: Originally from Sydney, Australia, Jyoti cofounded the small press publishing and distribution house Beating Hearts Press. Her writing has appeared in Bitch magazine, Calyx Journal, Maximum Rock n Roll and various zines, mostly centered around feminism, music, and independent publishing. A graduate of Portland State University's Writing and Publishing program, Jyoti recently served as prose editor of The Portland Review.   Late Night Library no 22:58 http://latenightlibrary.org/exquisitely-damaged-a-conversation-with-lance-weller/ http://latenightlibrary.org/exquisitely-damaged-a-conversation-with-lance-weller/#comments Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:57:54 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=1774 http://latenightlibrary.org/exquisitely-damaged-a-conversation-with-lance-weller/feed/ 0 http://latenightlibrary.org/hannah-gambles-your-invitation-to-a-modest-breakfast/ http://latenightlibrary.org/hannah-gambles-your-invitation-to-a-modest-breakfast/#comments Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:51:57 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=1697 http://latenightlibrary.org/hannah-gambles-your-invitation-to-a-modest-breakfast/feed/ 0 late night debut,poetry Welcome to Late Night Debut! This month we feature Hannah Gamble's poetry collection, Your Invitation to a Modest Breakfast, published by Fence Books in 2012. Poet Bernadette Mayer chose Gamble's debut collection as winner of the 2011 National Poetry S... Welcome to Late Night Debut! This month we feature Hannah Gamble's poetry collection, Your Invitation to a Modest Breakfast, published by Fence Books in 2012. Poet Bernadette Mayer chose Gamble's debut collection as winner of the 2011 National Poetry Series. "Like the favorite daughters of a Sufi master, these liberating poems love contradiction and whirling, and intimacy," wrote Tony Hoagland. "Their seriousness is droll, their humor warm and dark, their fables of selfhood are teasing and honest in marvelous and uncommon ways. They are truly delightful and robustly original—a poetic joy." Act One: Host Paul Martone covers controversial and entertaining book stories in the news Act Two: Co-hosts Susan Denning and Mary Rechner discuss Hannah's debut Act Three: Paul and Hannah talk about her experience with Fence Books, the unfair stereotypes of Houston, and the contagious nature of contemporary poetry. Berryman made me really, really want to talk in a strange way, and to be able to get away with saying things that don't make sense unless you squint a little bit or maybe are half asleep. Sometimes I just want to say things unusually. —Hannah on her influences Listen here... Subscribe on iTunes Listen at Stitcher SmartRadio  About Hannah Gamble: Hannah Gamble has received writing and teaching fellowships from Rice University, The University of Houston, and The Edward F. Albee Foundation. Her poems and interviews appear or are forthcoming in APR, jubilat, The Laurel Review, Indiana Review, Ecotone, and elsewhere. She teaches English at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and lives in Chicago.   About our co-hosts: Susan Denning is the author of She Preferred to Read the Knives, a chapbook from Dancing Girl Press. Her poetry has appeared in New York Quarterly, Shampoo, Boneshaker, Filter and elsewhere. She is one of the editors of Alive At the Center, an anthology of Portland, Seattle and Vancouver B.C. poets (Ooligan Press). She's also on the residency faculty for the newly established low residency MFA program at Eastern Oregon University. She works at Literary Arts in Portland.   Mary Rechner is the author of Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women (Propeller Books 2010). Her stories have appeared in the New England Review, Kenyon Review, Washington Square and Literary Mama, and have been published by Cloverfield Press (Los Angeles) and Negative Press (London). Her criticism and essays have appeared in The Believer and the Oregonian. Originally from Long Island, she works for Literary Arts, and lives in Portland, Oregon.   Late Night Library no 38:12 http://latenightlibrary.org/hans-weyandt/ http://latenightlibrary.org/hans-weyandt/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:46:56 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=1642 http://latenightlibrary.org/hans-weyandt/feed/ 0 independent bookstores,late night conversation,literary community Welcome to Late Night Conversation! In this week's episode Paul talks to Hans Weyandt, co-owner at Micawber's Books and editor of Read This!: Handpicked Favorites from America's Indie Bookstores. First published on Hans' blog for Micawber’s Books, Welcome to Late Night Conversation! In this week's episode Paul talks to Hans Weyandt, co-owner at Micawber's Books and editor of Read This!: Handpicked Favorites from America's Indie Bookstores. First published on Hans' blog for Micawber’s Books, each check-list style contribution includes a bookseller’s top fifty books, anecdotes, and interviews about the life of being a bookseller, reader, and engaged citizen. "If someone is really serious about being hardcore into books, and they looked through here and couldn't find one list that they really, really liked I'd be surprised." —Hans The Rumpus called Read This! a "deceptively powerful book. It’s a compilation of independent booksellers’ 50 favorite reads—their beloved recommendations to the rest of the world...If books are conversations between people through the ages, then our booksellers are those keeping the communication alive." Check out Hans' debut recommendations: The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, by Ayana Mathis Hold It 'Til It Hurts, by T. Geronimo Johnson Listen here... Subscribe on iTunes Listen at Stitcher SmartRadio About our guest: Hans Weyandt is a co-owner at Micawber’s Books, an independent bookstore in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is the editor of Read This!: Handpicked Favorites from America's Indie Bookstores, published in 2012 by Coffee House Press. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Make sure to check out the three latest publishers who have signed up for our One For the Books! campaign: Kattywompus Press, Cleveland Heights, Ohio Steel Toe Books, Bowling Green, Kentucky Whereabouts Press, Berkeley, California For more info about One For The Books! click here, or email books@latenightlibrary.org. Thanks for listening, and most of all, for reading. Late Night Library no 31:36 http://latenightlibrary.org/arent-i-funny-and-literary/ http://latenightlibrary.org/arent-i-funny-and-literary/#comments Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:02:22 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=1589 http://latenightlibrary.org/arent-i-funny-and-literary/feed/ 0 http://latenightlibrary.org/graywolf-press/ http://latenightlibrary.org/graywolf-press/#comments Sun, 10 Feb 2013 16:29:49 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=1562 http://latenightlibrary.org/graywolf-press/feed/ 0 graywolf press,independent publishing,late night conversation Welcome to Late Night Conversation! This week Paul talks to Fiona McCrae, publisher of Graywolf Press. Graywolf is considered one of the nation’s leading nonprofit literary publishers. Paul and Fiona discuss the benefits of the nonprofit publishing mod... Welcome to Late Night Conversation! This week Paul talks to Fiona McCrae, publisher of Graywolf Press. Graywolf is considered one of the nation’s leading nonprofit literary publishers. Paul and Fiona discuss the benefits of the nonprofit publishing model, the importance of taking risks for talented new writers, and how Graywolf grew to be such a revered figure in the independent publishing industry.  Listen here... Subscribe on iTunes Listen at Stitcher SmartRadio About our guest: Fiona McCrae has been publisher of Graywolf Press since 1994, following four years at Faber and Faber USA in Boston, where she was a director and executive editor. From 1982 until her move to Boston in 1991, she was at Faber and Faber, Ltd., in London, where she worked with such authors as Kazuo Ishiguro, Caryl Phillips, and Howard Norman. McCrae has taught publishing courses at Harvard University and Emerson College.  Authors that McCrae has published at Graywolf include Elizabeth Alexander, Charles Baxter, Per Petterson, Salvatore Scibona, and Percival Everett. She currently serves on the board of Books for Africa and is an advisor for Open Letter Press.  She became an American citizen in 2003 and is married to the writer John Coy. Fiona travels frequently to New York City, where Graywolf keeps an office, to meet with agents, authors, and other publishing colleagues. About Graywolf Press: Graywolf was founded in 1974 by Scott Walker. Their first publications were hand-set and hand-printed on treadle-operated machines. A decade later they incorporated as a a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and shortly thereafter relocated from Port Townsend to Saint Paul, Minnesota. A commitment to quality, and a willingness to embrace or invent new models, has kept Graywolf at the forefront of the small press movement. Late Night Library no 38:16 http://latenightlibrary.org/lisa-wells-yeah-no-totally/ http://latenightlibrary.org/lisa-wells-yeah-no-totally/#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:06:02 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=1483 http://latenightlibrary.org/lisa-wells-yeah-no-totally/feed/ 0 essays,late night debut,nonfiction,portland Welcome to Late Night Debut! This month we feature Lisa Well's debut essay collection, Yeah. No. Totally., published by Perfect Day Publishing in 2011. Lisa's collection has been described as "a searing portrait of a generation on the brink. Welcome to Late Night Debut! This month we feature Lisa Well's debut essay collection, Yeah. No. Totally., published by Perfect Day Publishing in 2011. Lisa's collection has been described as "a searing portrait of a generation on the brink." Her essays are fearlessly personal and unpretentious explorations into the expanding interlude between adolescence and adulthood. Author John Raymond described Lisa’s collection as “a suite of nuanced, artfully sculpted think-pieces on topics from lost rock clubs to the barrios of Nicaragua, capturing more than a few subtle truths about friends and fathers along the way.” This episode inaugurates the updated the Late Night Debut format, which now includes three acts. In the first segment, host Paul Martone covers controversial and entertaining book stories in the news. The second act features co-hosts Vanessa Veselka and Lidia Yuknavitch discussing Lisa's work. In the last segment, managing editor Candace Opper catches up with Lisa, who is currently an MFA candidate in the Iowa Writers Workshop. Listen here... Subscribe to Late Night Library on iTunes Listen at Stitcher SmartRadio About Lisa Wells: Lisa Wells is the author of the chapbook BEAST (poems, Bedouin Books 2012) and Yeah. No. Totally., a book of essays (Perfect Day Publishing, 2011). Her work has appeared at Omniverse, The Rumpus, The Nervous Breakdown, Coldfront, Plazm Magazine, Ecotone and others. She’s received support from Caldera Arts, the Regional Arts & Culture Council, Hypatia, and the Vermont Studio Center. Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, she currently lives in Iowa City where she holds a Provost fellowship in poetry at The University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Lisa recently appeared on an episode of Late Night Conversation with Perfect Day founder Michael Heald. Click here to check it out. About our co-hosts: Vanessa Veselka (Portland, OR) has been at various times, a teenage runaway, a sex-worker, a union organizer, and a student of paleontology. Her work appears in GQ, Bitch, The Atlantic, Tin House, and Zyzzyva. Her novel Zazen won the 2012 PEN/Bingham Prize for fiction.       Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the novel Dora: A Headcase and the anti-memoir The Chronology of Water, as well as three books of short stories. She is the founder of Chiasmus Press, and is a core faculty member of the Eastern Oregon University MFA program and an instructor at Mt. Hood Community College. She is currently finishing a three novel project. Assuming she survives it.   Thanks for listening and, most of all, for reading. Late Night Library no 33:10 http://latenightlibrary.org/a-life-divided-oksana-marafiotis-american-gypsy/ http://latenightlibrary.org/a-life-divided-oksana-marafiotis-american-gypsy/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:19:12 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=1469 http://latenightlibrary.org/a-life-divided-oksana-marafiotis-american-gypsy/feed/ 0 http://latenightlibrary.org/autumn-house-press/ http://latenightlibrary.org/autumn-house-press/#comments Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:43:50 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=1389 http://latenightlibrary.org/autumn-house-press/feed/ 0 independent publishing,late night conversation Welcome to Late Night Conversation! This month we feature Michael Simms, founder of Autumn House Press. Since their launch in 1998, Autumn House has been committed to publishing the most prominent American poets as well as lesser-known authors who will... Welcome to Late Night Conversation! This month we feature Michael Simms, founder of Autumn House Press. Since their launch in 1998, Autumn House has been committed to publishing the most prominent American poets as well as lesser-known authors who will become the important poets of their generation. In addition to publishing books, they publish Coal Hill Review, an online poetry magazine; they sponsor four national literary contests; and they collaborate with Pittsburgh community venues to present The Autumn House Master Authors Reading Series. Listen here... Subscribe to Late Night Library on iTunes Listen at Stitcher SmartRadio About our guest: Since 1998, Michael Simms has led the Autumn House community in building one of the most influential independent literary organizations in the country. Currently serving as Editor-in-Chief, he coordinates the selection, editing, design, manufacture, and marketing of Autumn House's publications. He is the author of five collections of poetry: Black Stone, The Happiness of Animals, The Fire-Eater, Migration, and Notes on Continuing Light, as well as the co-author of The Longman Dictionary and Handbook of Poetry. He has taught at The University of Iowa, Southern Methodist University, The Community College of Allegheny County, Carnegie Mellon University, Chatham University, and Duquesne University. He lives with his wife Eva and their two children in the historic Mount Washington neighborhood overlooking downtown Pittsburgh and the Monongahela River. Check out our episode of Late Night Debut featuring Attention Please Now, Matthew Pitt's debut story collection published by Autumn House Press in 2010. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Make sure to check out the three latest bricks-and-mortar independent bookstores that have signed up for our One For the Books! campaign: Faulkner House Books in New Orleans The Yellow Book in Chicago The Dusty Bookshelf in Lawrence, Kansas For more info about One For The Books! click here, or email books@latenightlibrary.org. Thanks for listening, and most of all, for reading. Late Night Library no 25:08 http://latenightlibrary.org/soho-press/ http://latenightlibrary.org/soho-press/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:16:55 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=1342 http://latenightlibrary.org/soho-press/feed/ 0 independent publishing,late night conversation Welcome to Late Night Conversation! This week Paul talks with Bronwen Hruska, publisher of Soho Press. Founded in 1986 by Laura and Alan Hruska and Juris Jurjevics, Soho Press is an independent publisher of literary fiction and international crime. Welcome to Late Night Conversation! This week Paul talks with Bronwen Hruska, publisher of Soho Press. Founded in 1986 by Laura and Alan Hruska and Juris Jurjevics, Soho Press is an independent publisher of literary fiction and international crime. In 2013 they will debut Soho Teen, a mystery/thriller imprint for young adults. Paul and Bronwen discuss making the transition from writing to publishing, finding the literary balance between craft and commercialism, and the evolution of Soho Press over the past twenty-seven years.  Listen here... Listen at Stitcher SmartRadio Check out the Soho debut titles mentioned in this episode at Indiebound: Accelerated, by Bronwen Hruska Little Wolves, by Thomas Maltman Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See, by Juliann Garey About our guest: Before becoming the publisher of Soho Press, Bronwen Hruska worked as a journalist and screenwriter for twenty years. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, More, Entertainment Weekly, Cosmopolitan, the Village Voice, the San Francisco Chronicle, and others. Her screenplays have sold to Columbia Pictures, CBS, NBC and Lifetime. Accelerated is her first novel. She lives in Manhattan with her two sons.     Late Night Library no 37:34 http://latenightlibrary.org/carl-adamshicks-curses-and-wishes/ http://latenightlibrary.org/carl-adamshicks-curses-and-wishes/#comments Mon, 31 Dec 2012 13:05:46 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=1243 http://latenightlibrary.org/carl-adamshicks-curses-and-wishes/feed/ 0 late night debut,poetry,portland Welcome to this year's final episode of Late Night Debut! This month we feature Carl Adamshick's debut poetry collection, Curses and Wishes, published by Louisiana State University Press. Marvin Bell selected Adamshick's debut as the 2010 winner of the... Welcome to this year's final episode of Late Night Debut! This month we feature Carl Adamshick's debut poetry collection, Curses and Wishes, published by Louisiana State University Press. Marvin Bell selected Adamshick's debut as the 2010 winner of the Walt Whitman Award and wrote the following about his work: "Reading these poems is like breathing fresh air. Carl Adamshick's voice is instantly engaging. A sophisticated ear. A continuous feeling for measure. A clarity of complex feelings. The tactile and the mysterious. Emotion embedded rather than proclaimed. A subtle artistry. It is refreshing to read a poet who feels and thinks from inside sound and sense." This episode is co-hosted by Kara Candito and Dan DeWeese—our first episode hosted by two writers whose books have also been featured on Late Night Debut! We are psyched and honored to have them return as contributors. Listen here... Subscribe to Late Night Library on iTunes Listen at Stitcher SmartRadio About Carl Adamshick: Carl Adamshick is the co-founder of Tavern Books. He is 2010 winner of the Walt Whitman Award and the William Stafford poet-in-residence at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. His work has been published in Harvard Review, American Poetry Review, The Missouri Review and Narrative.     Check out our Q&A with Carl, and Kara Candito's review of Curses and Wishes on Late Night Review. About our co-hosts: Kara Candito is the author of Taste of Cherry (University of Nebraska Press), winner of the 2008 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Her work has been published in such journals and anthologies as Blackbird, AGNI, Prairie Schooner, The Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, The Rumpus, Best New Poets 2007, The Rumpus Original Poetry Anthology, and A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry (University of Akron Press, 2012). A recipient of scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Santa Fe Arts Institute, Candito is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin, Platteville. Dan DeWeese's novel, You Don't Love This Man, was a finalist for the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and a winner of Late Night Library's "Debut-litzer" Prize. His fiction has appeared in publications including Tin House, New England Review, and Washington Square, and he is Editor in Chief of Propeller Quarterly. He lives in Portland, Oregon.       Thanks for listening, and most of all, for reading.  Late Night Library no 40:36 http://latenightlibrary.org/want-less-a-qa-with-carl-adamshick/ http://latenightlibrary.org/want-less-a-qa-with-carl-adamshick/#comments Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:59:52 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=1208 http://latenightlibrary.org/want-less-a-qa-with-carl-adamshick/feed/ 0 http://latenightlibrary.org/a-general-un-understanding-on-carl-adamshicks-curses-and-wishes/ http://latenightlibrary.org/a-general-un-understanding-on-carl-adamshicks-curses-and-wishes/#comments Wed, 26 Dec 2012 15:12:21 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=1151 http://latenightlibrary.org/a-general-un-understanding-on-carl-adamshicks-curses-and-wishes/feed/ 0 http://latenightlibrary.org/oren-teicher/ http://latenightlibrary.org/oren-teicher/#comments Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:49:17 +0000 admin http://latenightlibrary.org/?p=967 http://latenightlibrary.org/oren-teicher/feed/ 0 american booksellers association,independent bookstores,indiebound,late night conversation This episode of Late Night Conversation features Oren Teicher, CEO of the American Booksellers Association—a national, not for profit trade association, and exists to protect and promote the interests of its members: independently owned bookstores, This episode of Late Night Conversation features Oren Teicher, CEO of the American Booksellers Association—a national, not for profit trade association, and exists to protect and promote the interests of its members: independently owned bookstores, large and small, with storefront locations in towns and cities nationwide. In 2008 ABA created Indiebound—a community-oriented movement that brings together booksellers, readers, indie retailers, local business alliances, and anyone else with a passionate belief that healthy local economies help communities thrive. Last May, Oren issued an email campaign to member stores asking for support in preserving the agency model. "Since the introduction of the agency model many more independent booksellers are selling e-books, and those sales have shown steady growth," he writes. "The agency model has lowered prices to indie bookstore customers, and indies themselves have seen significantly increased price competition among publishers in regard to promotions, discounts, and special offers, all of which have allowed bricks-and-mortar bookstores to offer customers a wider array of titles at a greater value." Paul and Oren discuss the benefits of the agency model, the ways Amazon has changed book culture, and the challenges of sustaining independent bricks-and-mortar bookstores in today's marketplace. "The most important thing that can be done is to continually remind consumers that in shopping in an independent store, not only are you getting good service and getting an array of titles that are available to you to browse through that you may not see elsewhere, you are making an investment in the longterm viability of your community," Oren tells Paul. "That store is not going to continue to be there if you come into the store, browse its shelves, and make your purchases elsewhere." Listen here...   Subscribe to Late Night Library on iTunes Listen at Stitcher SmartRadio ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Have you signed up for our One For The Books! campaign yet? Click here for more information, or email books@latenightlibrary.org. Thanks for listening, and most of all, for reading.   Late Night Library no 36:18 http://latenightlibrary.org/mark-coker-from-smashwords/ http://latenightlibrary.org/mark-coker-from-smashwords/#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:03:27 +0000 admin http://paulmartone.com/?p=751 http://latenightlibrary.org/mark-coker-from-smashwords/feed/ 1 e-books,late night conversation This episode of Late Night Conversation features Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords. Paul and Mark discuss the benefits of the agency model, self-publishing, international e-book distribution, Amazon's anti-competitive practices, This episode of Late Night Conversation features Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords. Paul and Mark discuss the benefits of the agency model, self-publishing, international e-book distribution, Amazon's anti-competitive practices, and the future of e-book publishing. Here are some links of interest in reference to Paul and Mark's discussion: Amazon: The Grinch Who Stole Christmas? Does Agency Pricing Lead to Higher Book Prices? Mark Coker: Significant Disruption for Traditional Publishers Still to Come Listen here... Subscribe to Late Night Library on iTunes Listen at Stitcher SmartRadio  About Mark: Mark Coker founded Smashwords in 2008 to change the way books are published, marketed and sold. Mark is co-author along with his wife, Lesleyann, of Boob Tube, a novel that explores the behind-the-scenes world of daytime television soap operas. It was Mark’s experience trying to get Boob Tube published that inspired him to start Smashwords. He believes Smashwords holds the promise to make publishing more enriching for authors, readers and publishers. Mark is also the author of The Smashwords Style Guide, The Smashwords Book Marketing Guide, and The Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success. About Smashwords: Smashwords is the world's largest distributor of indie e-books, currently offering over 125,000 indie e-books in their catalogue. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Make sure to check out the three latest bricks-and-mortar independent bookstores that have signed up for our One For the Books! campaign: Busboys and Poets in Washington D.C. Left Bank Books in St. Louis Hyde Park Books in Boise For more info about One For The Books! click here, or email books@latenightlibrary.org. Thanks for listening, and most of all, for reading. Late Night Library no 46:58 http://latenightlibrary.org/debut-litzer/ http://latenightlibrary.org/debut-litzer/#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2012 07:01:55 +0000 admin http://paulmartone.com/?p=401 http://latenightlibrary.org/debut-litzer/feed/ 0 http://latenightlibrary.org/laurie-weeks-zipper-mouth/ http://latenightlibrary.org/laurie-weeks-zipper-mouth/#comments Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:00:19 +0000 admin http://paulmartone.com/?p=492 http://latenightlibrary.org/laurie-weeks-zipper-mouth/feed/ 0 fiction,late night debut This month we feature Laurie Weeks’ novel Zipper Mouth, published by The Feminist Press in 2011. Kevin Thomas at The Rumpus called Zipper Mouth ”a story of extremes: heights of infatuation, depths of temp work hell, chemical induced grandiosity, This month we feature Laurie Weeks’ novel Zipper Mouth, published by The Feminist Press in 2011. Kevin Thomas at The Rumpus called Zipper Mouth ”a story of extremes: heights of infatuation, depths of temp work hell, chemical induced grandiosity, and the ensuing hangover. It’s not for the faint of heart, all this desperation and ecstasy—but who wants to be the faint of heart?” Co-hosts Nicholas Boggs and William Johnson discuss the novel’s queer aesthetics, how it fails in all the right ways, and the renewed importance of small presses in LGBT publishing. Listen here... Subscribe to Late Night Library on iTunes Listen on Stitcher SmartRadio About Laurie Weeks: Laurie Weeks was born and raised in Idaho. After flunking “Introduction to Foreign Travel” at the University of Idaho, she lived in Austin, Tucson, L.A., Seattle, and Olympia, WA before moving to NYC in 1989 to study cultural theory at NYU, where she earned her M.A. before became a superstar in the 1990s downtown arts scene. Weeks’ received Lambda Literary’s Best Lesbian Debut Fiction award for Zipper Mouth, which was also shortlisted for the Edmund White Debut Fiction award, and appeared on numerous “best of”/”favorite” lists for books released in 2011. A portion of Zipper Mouthappeared in Dave Eggers’ The Best American Nonrequired Reading. She was a screenwriter on the film Boys Don’t Cry, toured the US with the girl-punk group Sister Spit, and co-founded Summer of Bad Plays, a performance collective. Her writing has appeared in The Whitney Biennial 2012,Semiotext(e)’s The New Fuck You, The Baffler, Vice, Nest: A Quarterly of Interiors, and Index Magazine, among others.Her play, Young Skulls II, was produced in NYC and San Francisco at The Lab. She was twice awarded 7-month residencies to The Fine Arts Workshop in Provincetown, MA, and has taught at UC San Diego, Cal Arts, and the New School. Her favorite job was teaching autobiographical writing, through CUNY, to women of all ages snared in the Welfare-to-Work program. Click here for our microinterview with Laurie. About our co-hosts: Nicholas Boggs, Brooklyn, NY, has fiction published or forthcoming in PANK, Mary Literary, Chelsea Station, and Best Gay Stories 2013, and his literary criticism appears in the anthology James Baldwin Now (NYU Press) andCallaloo.  His book-in-progress, which explores the untold story of James Baldwin’s collaboration with French painter Yoran Cazac, has been supported by fellowships from Yaddo and MacDowell as well as a 2012 grant from the Jerome Foundation. He is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of English at NYU. William Johnson is a Brooklyn based essayist, cultural critic and editor. His writing has appeared in numerous art catalogs and periodicals: Boy Book: A Pictorial Study Of Urban Male Nudes in a Contemporary Urban Setting, A Question of Beauty, works by Anika Wilson, and “I Knew It Was Your Arm…:” works by Doug Group. He is a contributing arts and culture writer forCrushFanazine. He is the editor and publisher of Mary Literary, a literary journal dedicated to showcasing queer/gay writings of artistic merit and the managing editor of the Lambda Literary Review.       Late Night Library no 26:38 http://latenightlibrary.org/the-laurie-weeks-microinterview/ http://latenightlibrary.org/the-laurie-weeks-microinterview/#comments Sun, 25 Nov 2012 17:00:46 +0000 admin http://paulmartone.com/?p=507 http://latenightlibrary.org/the-laurie-weeks-microinterview/feed/ 0 http://latenightlibrary.org/perfect-day-publishing/ http://latenightlibrary.org/perfect-day-publishing/#comments Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:00:20 +0000 admin http://paulmartone.com/?p=482 http://latenightlibrary.org/perfect-day-publishing/feed/ 0 independent publishing,late night conversation,portland This week Paul talks to Michael Heald, writer and founder of Perfect Day Publishing, along with Lisa Wells, author of Yeah. No. Totally. and the poetry chapbook Beast. Topics include: independent publishing, salon-style readings, blurb anxiety, This week Paul talks to Michael Heald, writer and founder of Perfect Day Publishing, along with Lisa Wells, author of Yeah. No. Totally. and the poetry chapbook Beast. Topics include: independent publishing, salon-style readings, blurb anxiety, creating community around other writers’ work, and making lit culture cool. Listen here... Subscribe to Late Night Library on iTunes Listen at Stitcher SmartRadio  About our guests: Perfect Day Publishing is a small press based in Portland, Oregon. Founded by Michael Heald in 2011, Perfect Day specializes in personal nonfiction that takes emotional risks. The first three titles all made the Portland Mercury’s Best of 2011 list, and the anonymous memoir Love Is Not Constantly Wondering If You Are Making the Biggest Mistake of Your Life has been a fixture among Powell’s bestsellers. The fourth Perfect Day book, Heald’s essay collection Goodbye to the Nervous Apprehension, will be out November 29, 2012.   Last year Perfect Day published Lisa Wells’ debut collection of essays, Yeah. No. Totally, a searing portrait of a generation on the brink. Author John Raymond described Lisa’s collection as “a suite of nuanced, artfully sculpted think-pieces on topics from lost rock clubs to the barrios of Nicaragua, capturing more than a few subtle truths about friends and fathers along the way.” Lisa is also the author of Beast, a collection of poems published by Bedouin Books.     Late Night Library no 41:28 http://latenightlibrary.org/joseph-regal-from-zola-books/ http://latenightlibrary.org/joseph-regal-from-zola-books/#comments Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:00:46 +0000 admin http://paulmartone.com/?p=511 http://latenightlibrary.org/joseph-regal-from-zola-books/feed/ 0 e-books,independent publishing,late night conversation,literary community This week we feature Joseph Regal from Zola Books, an online literary community where readers, writers, booksellers, reviewers, bloggers and publishers can gather in one place to connect naturally around the books they love. - Listen here... This week we feature Joseph Regal from Zola Books, an online literary community where readers, writers, booksellers, reviewers, bloggers and publishers can gather in one place to connect naturally around the books they love. Listen here... Subscribe to Late Night Library on iTunes Listen on Stitcher SmartRadio  About our guest: Joe Regal has spent more than two decades in publishing, starting at the Russell & Volkening Literary Agency, where he worked with Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Anne Tyler, Eudora Welty, and Annie Dillard, as well as Nobel Prize-winner Nadine Gordimer. He founded his own agency, Regal Literary, in 2002; there he represented books as diverse as Big Fish, The Time Traveler’s Wife, Shantaram, The Master and Margarita, Scott Pilgrim,The Tao of Wu, and The Traveler. Regal co-founded Zola Books in 2011 as the first truly integrated social eBook retailer, creating an alternative ecosystem that empowers writers, publishers, independent booksellers, and curators. Zola is an open-platform retailer that carries books from most major publishers and makes them available on all web-enabled devices, including the Nook, iPad, Kobo, and yes, most Kindles. Zola Books is social media custom tailored by and for book lovers. It promises to open an inclusive literary conversation in a way the internet has not yet witnessed, and we’re excited to take part!   Late Night Library no 40:02 http://latenightlibrary.org/marcus-jacksons-neighborhood-register/ http://latenightlibrary.org/marcus-jacksons-neighborhood-register/#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:00:36 +0000 admin http://paulmartone.com/?p=517 http://latenightlibrary.org/marcus-jacksons-neighborhood-register/feed/ 0 cave canem,late night debut,poetry This episode of Late Night Debut features Marcus Jackson’s collection of poems, Neighborhood Register, published by CavanKerry Press in 2011. Poet Matthew Dickman chose Jackson’s collection as his favorite debut of that year. This episode of Late Night Debut features Marcus Jackson’s collection of poems, Neighborhood Register, published by CavanKerry Press in 2011. Poet Matthew Dickman chose Jackson’s collection as his favorite debut of that year. “These are beautiful poems about places that often see little beauty. No matter where I was when I read Mr. Jackson’s poems I felt I was somewhere important, somewhere honest and celebrated.” Late Night Library is proud to feature Jackson in a special Cave Canem edition of Late Night Debut. Since 1996 Cave Canem has been a home for the many voices of African American poetry and is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets. Guest co-hosts and Cave Canem fellows John Murillo and Camille Rankine come together to discuss Jackson’s compelling debut collection. Listen here... Subscribe to Late Night Library on iTunes Listen on Stitcher SmartRadio About Marcus Jackson: Marcus Jackson was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio. After earning his BA at the University of Toledo, he continued his poetry studies in NYU’s graduate creative writing program and as a Cavem Canem fellow. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Harvard Review, and The Cincinnati Review, among many other publications. His chapbook, Rundown, was published by Aureole Press in 2009. His debut full-length collection of poems, entitledNeighborhood Register, was recently released. Marcus lives with his wife in Nashville and teaches at Middle Tennessee State University.   Click here for our microinterview with Marcus. About our co-hosts: John Murillo is a two-time Larry Neal Writers’ Award winner and the inaugural Elma P. Stuckey Visiting Emerging Poet-in-Residence at Columbia College Chicago. His poetry has appeared in such publications as Callaloo, Court Green, Ploughshares, Ninth Letter, and the anthology Writing Self and Community: African-American Poetry After the Civil Rights Movement. Camille Rankine is the author of Slow Dance with Trip Wire, selected by Cornelius Eady for the Poetry Society of America’s 2010 New York Chapbook Fellowship. Her poetry has been published in several magazines and journals, including American Poet, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Indiana Review and POOL: A Journal of Poetry, and was commissioned by the New York Botanical Garden for their Literary Audio Tour.     Late Night Library no 29:46 http://latenightlibrary.org/the-marcus-jackson-microinterview/ http://latenightlibrary.org/the-marcus-jackson-microinterview/#comments Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:00:52 +0000 admin http://paulmartone.com/?p=526 http://latenightlibrary.org/the-marcus-jackson-microinterview/feed/ 0 http://latenightlibrary.org/rob-spillman/ http://latenightlibrary.org/rob-spillman/#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:00:34 +0000 admin http://paulmartone.com/?p=537 http://latenightlibrary.org/rob-spillman/feed/ 0 independent publishing,late night conversation,one for the books,portland This episode of Late Night Conversation features Rob Spillman, editor of Tin House Magazine and Tin House Books. Paul talks with Rob about independent publishing, U.S. v. Apple, Amazon.com’s predatory pricing practices, e-book distribution, This episode of Late Night Conversation features Rob Spillman, editor of Tin House Magazine and Tin House Books. Paul talks with Rob about independent publishing, U.S. v. Apple, Amazon.com’s predatory pricing practices, e-book distribution, The Brooklyn/Portland issue of Tin House Magazine, and international fiction. In this episode, Late Night Library also announces One for The Books!: a six-month campaign to support independent booksellers and independent publishers. Are you ready to participate? Listen to Paul’s conversation with Rob, and then join the campaign by emailing your pledge to books@latenightlibrary.org. Pledges do not require a financial contribution, but we will publish the names of pledgers on our website! Pledge Levels: Late Night Reader, Late Night Author, Late Night Publisher, and Late Night Brick-and-Mortar. Listen for more details. Listen here... Subscribe to Late Night Library on iTunes Listen on Stitcher SmartRadio About our guest: Rob’s writing has appeared in BookForum, the Boston Review, Connoisseur,Details, GQ, Nerve, the New York Times Book Review, Real Simple, Rolling Stone, Salon, Spin, Sports Illustrated, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Worth, among other magazines, newspapers, and essay collections. He is also the editor of Gods and Soldiers: the Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing, which was published in 2009. Interested in learning more about the topics addressed in Paul’s monologue? A few links to get you started: Smashwords founder, Mark Coker, on the Agency Model Four-part series on Amazon’s corporate practices “Self-Published Author Takes on Amazon” Tune in to Late Night Debut on October 31st for our Cave Canem podcast. John Murillo and Camille Rankine discuss Marcus Jackson’s debut poetry collection, Neighborhood Register.   Late Night Library no 48:08 http://latenightlibrary.org/alan-heathcocks-volt/ http://latenightlibrary.org/alan-heathcocks-volt/#comments Sun, 30 Sep 2012 16:00:36 +0000 admin http://paulmartone.com/?p=544 http://latenightlibrary.org/alan-heathcocks-volt/feed/ 0 fiction,late night debut Late Night Library kicks off its fall season with VOLT, Alan Heathcock’s debut collection of short stories, published by Graywolf Press in 2012. Robert Olmstead calls this debut story collection “heart-filling and breath-stopping, Late Night Library kicks off its fall season with VOLT, Alan Heathcock’s debut collection of short stories, published by Graywolf Press in 2012. Robert Olmstead calls this debut story collection “heart-filling and breath-stopping,” and praises its “achingly spare yet mysteriously generous” language. For September’s podcast, co-hosts Brian Christopher and David Wagstaff discuss elements of realism and fable in Heathcock’s story, “The Staying Freight.” Alan told us about one of his own favorite debut collections in our September microinterview. Listen here... Subscribe to Late Night Library on iTunes Listen on Stitcher SmartRadio  About Alan Heathcock: Alan Heathcock’s stories have won the National Magazine Award in fiction, and have been selected for inclusion in The Best American Mystery Stories anthology. VOLT, a collection of stories published by Graywolf Press, was a “Best Book 2011″ selection from numerous newspapers and magazines, was named as a New York Times Editors’ Choice, selected as a Barnes and Noble Best Book of the Month, as well as for inclusion in the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers series. A Native of Chicago, Heathcock teaches fiction writing at Boise State University. Click here for our microinterview with Alan. About our co-hosts: Brian Christopher is the author of a collection of short stories, So Many Things That Want To Burn, and three collections of poetry, Skin, Angels In Exile, andThe Detective Poems. His short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies. He is the editor and publisher of Quiet Lion Press, and he edited Rain City Review from 1992–1999.   David Wagstaff is a director and author of plays and films, a songwriter, and a choreographer of Tai Chi Dance. He has taught English and writing for 30 years. David has a BFA from California Institute of the Arts.   Late Night Library no 29:22 http://latenightlibrary.org/the-alan-heathcock-microinterview/ http://latenightlibrary.org/the-alan-heathcock-microinterview/#comments Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:00:04 +0000 admin http://paulmartone.com/?p=553 http://latenightlibrary.org/the-alan-heathcock-microinterview/feed/ 0 http://latenightlibrary.org/jefferson-smith/ http://latenightlibrary.org/jefferson-smith/#comments Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:00:34 +0000 admin http://paulmartone.com/?p=555 http://latenightlibrary.org/jefferson-smith/feed/ 0 late night conversation,portland In this episode of Late Night Conversation, Paul talks with Oregon State Representative, Jefferson Smith. Topics include: coming of age experiences, social stratification, corporate law and ethics, the role of nonprofits, generational politics, In this episode of Late Night Conversation, Paul talks with Oregon State Representative, Jefferson Smith. Topics include: coming of age experiences, social stratification, corporate law and ethics, the role of nonprofits, generational politics, and publishing. Listen here... Subscribe to Late Night Library on iTunes Listen on Stitcher SmartRadio  About our guest:  Jefferson Smith is an Oregon Democratic politician and the founder of the Bus Project. In 2008, he was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives representing District 47 in east Portland. He is seeking election as Mayor of Portland in 2012. After listening to the show, check out books and organizations Paul and Jefferson mentioned or discussed: Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier by Edward Glaeser Piers Anthony’s World of Xanath (read by Jefferson in middle school) Busy Monsters by William Giraldi (a debut novel Late Night Library selected as a gift for Jefferson) The Bus Project (political nonprofit founded by Jefferson) Cforward (a nonpartisan, 501c4 advocacy organization that champions the economic role of the nonprofit sector and supports candidates who include the sector in their plans to strengthen the economy) Late Night Library no 45:22 http://latenightlibrary.org/charlie-hales/ http://latenightlibrary.org/charlie-hales/#comments Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:00:18 +0000 admin http://paulmartone.com/?p=559 http://latenightlibrary.org/charlie-hales/feed/ 0 late night conversation,portland This episode of Late Night Conversation features Charlie Hales, mayor of Portland. Topics include: arts culture, urbanism, regional government, community centers, and favorite books. - Listen here... Subscribe to Late Night Library on iTunes This episode of Late Night Conversation features Charlie Hales, mayor of Portland. Topics include: arts culture, urbanism, regional government, community centers, and favorite books. Listen here... Subscribe to Late Night Library on iTunes Listen on Stitcher SmartRadio  About our guest: Charlie Hales was a Portland city commissioner, serving from 1993 through 2002. After leaving the City Council, he joined HDR Engineering as senior vice president, working on new light rail and streetcar lines. Check out some of Charlie’s book and art recommendations: Lavinia, by Ursula K. Le Guin Shout Her Lovely Name, by Natalie Serber Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, by Cheryl Strayed Fire at Eden’s Gate, by Brent Walth Portland metal artist, Kendall Mingey.     Late Night Library no 53:30 http://latenightlibrary.org/keetje-kuipers-beautiful-in-the-mouth/ http://latenightlibrary.org/keetje-kuipers-beautiful-in-the-mouth/#comments Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:00:48 +0000 admin http://paulmartone.com/?p=565 http://latenightlibrary.org/keetje-kuipers-beautiful-in-the-mouth/feed/ 0 late night debut,poetry Beautiful in the Mouth, Keetje Kuipers’ debut collection of poems published in 2010 by BOA Editions, rounds out Late Night Library’s summer season of podcasts. Thomas Lux, who selected Beautiful in the Mouth as winner of the A. Poulin, Jr., Poetry Prize, Beautiful in the Mouth, Keetje Kuipers’ debut collection of poems published in 2010 by BOA Editions, rounds out Late Night Library’s summer season of podcasts. Thomas Lux, who selected Beautiful in the Mouth as winner of the A. Poulin, Jr., Poetry Prize, praises Kuipers as a young poet “making [her] voice heard not by tearing up the old language but by making the old language new.” Guest co-hosts Cai Emmons and Dorianne Laux read several favorite poems from Kuipers’ book, concentrating on the poet’s contrasting sense of place as well as her deft use of language and haunting imagery. Listen here... Subscribe to Late Night Library on iTunes Listen on Stitcher Smart Radio About Keetje Kuipers: Keetje Kuipers is a native of the Northwest. She earned her B.A. at Swarthmore College and her M.F.A. at the University of Oregon, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University from 2009-2011. Keetje was most recently the Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College, and is now an Assistant Professor at Auburn University. Her book Beautiful in the Mouth was awarded the 2009 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and was published in 2010 by BOA Editions. Her second collection, The Keys to the Jail, is forthcoming from BOA in 2014. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and Oregon Literary Arts. Her poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review,Prairie Schooner, West Branch, Painted Bride Quarterly, Willow Springs, andAGNI, among others, and have been nominated seven years in a row for the Pushcart Prize. She lives in Auburn, AL and Missoula, MT with her family and her dog, Bishop (named after Elizabeth, of course). About our co-hosts: Cai Emmons is the author of the novels His Mother’s Son, winner of the Ken Kesey Award for the Novel;The Stylist; and recently-completed Spuyten Duyvil. Essays, stories, and reviews have appeared in publications such as Arts and Letters, Narrative Magazine, The New York Post, Portland Monthly, and The Oregon Quarterly. Beginning her writing career as a dramatist, Emmons served as a playwright-in-residence at the Albee Foundation’s “Barn” and her plays were produced at The American Place Theater, Playwrights’ Horizons, and Theatre Genesis. She has written ten optioned feature screenplays, teleplays for CBS, and two independent films, A Man Around the House and “Higher Aspirations” (which she also directed). Emmons currently lives in Eugene, Oregon. Dorianne Laux’s most recent collections are The Book of Men and Facts about the Moon, both from W.W. Norton. A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize, the Oregon Book Award, and The Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry, Laux is also author of Awake, What We Carry, and Smoke from BOA Editions. She currently teaches poetry in the MFA Program at North Carolina State University and is founding faculty at Pacific University’s Low Residency MFA Program. Late Night Library no 35:46