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Late Night Library is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting talented writers early in their careers. Our programs include a series of podcasts about debut titles, podcast conversations with cultural innovators, events that connect diverse literary communities, and a virtual network of writers and readers. We are based in Brooklyn, New York, and Portland, Oregon.

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Before listening to each episode, we strongly recommend that you read the featured book!  Check it out from your local library, borrow a copy from a friend, ask your local independent bookstore to order, or click to purchase from WORD, an independent neighborhood bookstore in Greenpoint, Brooklyn (where possible).

Taste of Cherry                 A Thread of Sky      

Destruction Myth     The Gin Closet     Mapmaking     You Don't Love This Man

Goat in the Snow     Attention Please Now     Between the Crackups     The Fates Will Find Their Way

Negro League Baseball     Orientation     Spit Back a Boy     Monstress

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Erin Hoover is a poet living in Brooklyn, New York and a graduate of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Oregon and Sarah Lawrence College. Her poems are mostly about decomposition, though they are sometimes about electricity. Photo by Amy Aquilino.

Paul Martone is a fiction writer. His stories appear in The Saranac Review, The Fiddlehead, Water~Stone Review, The Stickman Review, and Reed Magazine (2010 John Steinbeck Award Finalist). A graduate of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Oregon, the University at Albany - SUNY, and the University at Buffalo - SUNY, Paul currently lives in Portland, Oregon. Photo by Karma Smallback.

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