Late Night Debut, hosted by Amber Keller
This month we feature Esmé Weijun Wang’s debut novel, The Border of Paradise, published by The Unnamed Press. The New York Times says, “The Border of Paradise is shaped by darkness and the kind of delicious story that makes for missed train stops and bedtimes, keeping a reader up late for just one more page of dynamic character-bouncing perspective…” 
Act 1: Host Amber Keller covers entertaining book culture news and cool new debuts
Act 2: Porochista Khakpour and Trinie Dalton discuss Esmé Wang’s debut
Act 3: Porochista Khakpour speaks with Esmé Wang about mental illness, writing from multiple identities, self-help, a secret Faulkner tribute, and so much more 

 
 
Purchase The Border of Paradise from IndieBound
GIVEAWAY: WIN A FREE COPY OF WANG’S DEBUT.
LISTEN TO THE EPISODE FOR DETAILS, THEN EMAIL
AMBER@LATENIGHTLIBRARY.ORG BY
MIDNIGHT ON JUNE 30.
ABOUT OUR FEATURED AUTHOR:
Esmé Weijun Wang is an award-winning mental health advocate and speaker, as well as a journalist and essayist. She is the author of The Border of Paradise and the chapbook Light Gets In, and has written for Catapult, Hazlitt, Lit Hub, Salon, and Lenny. She lives in San Francisco.
ABOUT OUR CO-HOSTS:

Porochista Khakpour was born in Tehran, raised in Los Angeles and lives in New York City. She the author of the forthcoming memoir Sick and the novels The Last Illusion—a 2014 NPR “Best Book of the Year”—and Sons and Other Flammable Objects, winner of a California Book Award. Her writing has appeared in or is forthcoming in Harper’s, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera America, Bookforum, Slate, Salon, Spin, The Daily Beast, Elle, and many other publications around the world. She is currently writer-in-residence at Bard College.
 
 

Trinie Dalton has published six books that undulate between prose and visual art, most recently Baby Geisha (Two Dollar Radio). Dalton also writes for artists’ book projects and monographs, most recently for David Altmejd (Damiani), You Who Read Me Will Forever Be My Friends: Dorothy Iannone (Siglio), and Laura Owens (Rizzoli). She is Faculty Chair of the MFA in Writing & Publishing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, and also Core Faculty in VCFA’s low-residency MFA in Writing program. Find her at Sweettomb.com.