Join us on Small Business Saturday (Nov. 25) in the bookstore! As an independent publisher with an independent bookstore, we rely on readers’ support and we’re excited to celebrate you. Not only do we carry Milkweed Editions titles, but we also support other independent, small, and values-aligned presses in store. Learn more about the bookstore here. Thank you for stopping in to the store for all of your holiday shopping needs.

We will have sips and snacks, staff recommendations, surprise author guests, and special promotions throughout the day. We look forward to seeing you here!

Join us for an exclusive evening of holiday shopping, outside of regular store hours, at our independent bookstore, Milkweed Books. Mix and mingle with fellow Milkweed supporters, enjoy festive drinks and snacks, and use your member discount to buy the perfect gift for everyone on your list. Complimentary gift wrapping will also be available.

Not local? Use your member discount online—just be sure to place your order by Thanksgiving for holiday delivery!

Learn more and become a member here.

Photography: Rebecca Slater, By Rebecca Studios

Translator and author Wendy Call will read from How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems, by Mexican-Zoque poet Mikeas Sánchez.

Kick off the month of November with a reading and Q&A with Shilpi Suneja from her debut novel, House of Caravans. Suneja will be in conversation with Natasha Raheja, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University.

Join author Jennifer duBois at the Texas Book Festival.

Join Robin Wall Kimmerer at Door County Library for the Write on Door County Reads 2024.

Join Ada Limón at the Texas Christian University for a Keynote Lecture.

Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) invites the community to participate in all related events for this fall’s upcoming Common Reading event. The book for Fall 2023 semester is Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón, United States Poet Laureate.

Limón is scheduled to visit Wednesday, October 18, 2023 for a keynote presentation, book reading, and book signing at 12:30 p.m. in Blandford Lecture Hall in the Humanities building on OCTC’s Main Campus; the event is open to the public.

The college reserves the option to adjust events. All events related to the Common Reading will be posted…

Join Elizabeth Rush as the Honorary Keynote speaker for the 28th Interdisciplinary Conference on the Environment.

Central to Rush’s writing is the act of listening: listening to those who live in front-line climate-changed communities, listening to Antarctica’s great glaciers as they go to pieces, listening to all those voices long locked out of environmental conversations.

Join Elizabeth Metzger in conversation with Timothy Donnelly about her book Lying In.