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Recent press
Brooklyn + Portland = Late Night Library, April 26, 2012
Never been to Portland, but suspect you’d fit in there? If you’re the type of literary Brooklynite who would attend a late night reading of emerging voices at a bar in Greenpoint, you’re not only right, you’re also in luck.
Two Coasts, One Podcast, April 25, 2012
Willamette Week interviews Erin Hoover and Paul Martone in advance of Late Night Library’s Annual Party.
Recording on Two Tracks, March 21, 2012
In an article for The Nervous Breakdown, Erin Hoover talks to Steve Almond, Kara Candito, Jane Friedman, Brad Listi, Tom Lutz, Benjamin Samuel, Stephanie Sauer, and Jim Shepard about online literary communities and how writers can create an audience for new books.
Guest post from Paul Martone, January 9, 2012
Tin House features an online article by Paul Martone on debut literature and the creation of Late Night Library.
News & Trends, January/February 2012
Poets & Writers shouts out Late Night Library alongside other new podcasts in its annual “Inspiration” issue.
My Internet Relations, Fall 2011
Leslie Jamison, author of The Gin Closet, highlights the value of Late Night Library in the larger context of internet publicity for debut writers.
Author praise
Three cheers for Erin Hoover and Paul Martone: as less and less cultural space is turned over to fiction and poetry, guerilla actions like Late Night Library become more and more urgently important. Smart and passionate readers giving extended consideration to relatively neglected but excellent books: who wouldn’t celebrate that?
Jim Shepard, author of six novels, most recently Project X, and four short story collections, including Like You’d Understand, Anyway, finalist for the National Book Award
I love what Late Night Library is doing: using the internet to spread the gospel of literature. Paul Martone and Erin Hoover are doing the work of angels and fools. They are making porn for the soul.
Steve Almond, author of ten books of fiction and nonfiction, including the collections My Life in Heavy Metal and God Bless America
I like the informality of it, two people talking about poems and stories, giving them a good close reading. I like also the format—kind of like a book group one can attend in robe and slippers! You’re doing a great service for poetry and fiction.
Dorianne Laux, award-winning author of five poetry collections, including most recently, Facts About the Moon and The Book of Men
Our culture desperately needs ventures like Late Night Library, which introduces new and emerging literary talents with substance and passion. Bravo!
Chang-rae Lee, 2011 Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Surrendered and author of Native Speaker, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
I like the idea for Late Night Library—the way Erin and Paul discuss stories, set them up, and talk about the characters in great detail. I even like how they disagree, if mildly! Late Night Library is a great thing, and I’ll recommend it to all my students.
Susan Straight, author of seven novels, including Highwire Moon, finalist for the National Book Award
What if anesthetized graphic novelist Daniel Clowes wrote urban pastorals a la Elizabeth Hardwick? You’d get Erin Hoover, whose poems conceal a whimsical violence. I look forward to seeing what strangeness she brings to reading the poetry of others.
Ken Chen, author of Juvenilia, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, and director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop
