Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley

Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley belongs to the Onondaga Nation of Indigenous Americans in New York. He is the author of Dēmos, Colonize Me and Not Your Mama’s Melting Pot, winners and finalists of over a dozen awards.

Saint Paul, MN —

Moving Words: Writers Across Minnesota, featuring Karen Babine

Enjoy a lively virtual discussion with four multi-genre, Minnesota Book Award-winning authors: Karen Babine (author of All the Wild Hungers), Heid Erdrich, Peter Geye & Kao Kalia Yang. This event will be presented on Zoom at 6:30pm CT.

Point Reyes Station, CA —

Dan Beachy-Quick: A Discussion of STONE-GARLAND with Point Reyes Books & Center for the Art of Translation

Point Reyes Books hosts Dan Beachy-Quick for a discussion of Stone-Garland. This event is sponsored by the Center for the Art of Translation, a San Francisco-based non-profit dedicated to finding dazzling new, overlooked, and underrepresented voices, brought into English by the best translators, and to celebrating the art of translation. Hosted on Crowdcast at 7pm PT.

Los Altos, CA —

Jake Skeets: Readings By Writers

Writing By Writers hosts Jake Skeets for a reading from Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers. This webinar will be hosted via Zoom at 5:00pm PDT. Please RSVP for password.

New York, NY —

The Adroit Journal: Issue 34 Release Reading!

The editors of The Adroit Journal are thrilled to welcome you to a reading celebrating the release of our thirty-fourth issue. Readers include issue contributors Jos Charles, Jordan Jace, Yalie Kamara, David Naimon, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, and Diane Seuss. The reading will be hosted on Zoom (8pm ET) by Peter LaBerge, founder and editor-in-chief of The Adroit Journal.

Authors

5 Reasons to Teach This Book: All the Wild Hungers

Bailey Hutchinson — 08/04/2020

Welcome, friends, to the latest installment of 5 Reasons to Teach This Book! In this interview series, we examine what we can learn from Milkweed’s titles by discussing our books with educators, authors, and booksellers. This month, we’re featuring Karen Babine’s 2020 Minnesota Book Award winning book, All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer.

In this interview, Karen and I discuss both the craft and critique of personal nonfiction. What on the page contributes to an author’s voice, that borderline indefinable element of craft? How do we accommodate our eagerness for answers in literature without…