Politics and Prose
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VIRTUAL EVENT
Milkweed Editions joins Politics and Prose for their “Indie Press Night” series. P&P will host Yanna Demkiewicz, Milkweed’s Marketing Director, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of World of Wonders, and Makenna Goodman, author of The Shame. This event will be presented virtually at 8:00pm ET.
As an independent bookstore, Politics and Prose is committed to supporting the meaningful work of independent publishing houses. In a new virtual series, they will highlight different presses and the work they do in roundtable conversations with their authors and publishers, and delve into the challenges that they face in this moment as they fight to keep readers connected with the written word.
To inaugurate this series, P&P will feature Milkweed Editions. We’ll hear from two authors, Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Makenna Goodman, as well as from Marketing Director Yanna Demkiewicz, in conversation with P&P Director of Events and Marketing to talk about their new work, and the mission of Milkweed Editions.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of World of Wonders, an illustrated essay collection, as well as of four books of poetry, including, most recently, Oceanic, winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award. She serves as poetry faculty for the Writing Workshops in Greece and is professor of English and Creative Writing in the University of Mississippi’s MFA program.
Makenna Goodman
Makenna Goodman is the author of The Shame, which was named a Harvard Review Favorite Book of 2020, a White Review Recommended Read, a Refinery29 Best New Book, a Literary Hub Recommended Read, a Bustle Most Anticipated Book, a Boston.com Book Club Pick, and more. Interviews, words, and work have been featured in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Paris Review, Electric Literature, Guernica, Literary Hub, Catapult, The Rumpus, the Adroit Journal, and Commonplace Podcast, and are forthcoming in the Harvard Review, BOMB, the White Review, and the New York Review of Books. Based in Vermont, Goodman is a former editor of books on agriculture and food who writes about, among other things, the intersection of land stewardship and capitalism.
A fable both blistering and surreal, this is a propulsive, funny, and thought-provoking novel about a woman in isolation, whose mind—fueled by capitalism, motherhood, and the search for meaningful art—attempts to betray her.