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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

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.

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)

Crook's Corner Book Prize Winner Hide Is a Historical Portrait of Gay Oppression Inspired by the Modern Variety Matthew Griffin's graceful novel was selected by the restaurant as the best literary debut set in the South of 2016.

“[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

Late Night Library | Sophie Pinkham – Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine

“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/

Jeffrey Ford: A Natural History of Hell - Late Night Library 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...

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.

Lily Hoang - A Bestiary Late Night Conversation, hosted by Emma Jacobs .