Bookstore / Roundup
Read This Next: Celia Recommends (August)
This month, Celia recommends three books that discuss our pasts and how we memorialize them, and how we deal with places we’ve left behind.
Bookstore / Roundup
Read This Next: Daley Recommends (August)
This month, Daley offers three bold and incisive books that confront the ominous portents of hurricane season in the Gulf South, family, and the whole big, messy project of America in equal measure.
Authors
Once You’ve Seen into Heaven, How Do You Forget That? On the Opioid Epidemic and I Know Your Kind
I saw the opiate epidemic start to swallow up my home. It worked quickly and indiscriminately. Each trip back was met with news of a different friend using, or in rehab, or dealing, or in jail, or worse. But it was only after a very specific moment that I became committed to writing this book, a moment of initial frustration within myself.
William Brewer
Authors / Watch & Listen
A Year in the Wilderness is here!
We are so excited to share that we got to see the first copies of A Year in the Wilderness today! Check out this timelapse of us signing over 600 copies, which will be sent to everyone who preorders to book before its publication date on September 23. For everyone who’s already ordered a copy: stay tuned! Books will ship after Labor Day.
Authors / Watch & Listen
Remembering Max Ritvo
A year ago today, Max Ritvo passed away after a long battle with cancer. Here are just a few of the most wonderful interviews, reviews, and remembrances of Max available on the internet.
Minneapolis, MN
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A Conversation with Lisa Von Drasek & Jostein Gaarder
Join us for a dialogue between esteemed curator and champion of children’s literature Lisa Von Drasek and acclaimed Norwegian children’s author Jostein Gaarder. Milkweed Books is pleased to host this lively conversation on the art of storytelling, as both guests explore how children’s literature can tap into some of the most profound human experiences: grief, humor, growth, and difference. Also featuring Gaarder’s newest picture book, Questions Asked, which poses a series of philosophical questions that arise in childhood and endure throughout a lifetime. Presented in partnership with Elsewher…
Minneapolis, MN
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Potential Unlocked! The Power of Poetry and Autism
Milkweed Books is proud to host this celebration of the voices of individuals with autism, capping off a five-day creative writing course taught by Brian Laidlaw and Chris Martin. Students from the class will perform their original poems and songs, while guest artists Steve Healey, Sagirah Shahid, and Roy Guzmán will read poems that inspired the class. The students’ work will be available for purchase as a limited edition chapbook. Presented with the Center for Engaging Autism, made possible through the Minnesota State Arts Board.
Minneapolis, MN
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Ben Blum at Milkweed Books
Milkweed Books is pleased to present Ben Blum, author of Ranger Games, his first book of nonfiction. Join us in the Target Performance Hall as Ben reads from Ranger Games, the story of Ben’s young cousin who shocked his family and community by committing armed robbery just before he was set to deploy to Iraq as a U.S. Army Ranger.
Ben Blum was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of California Berkeley, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, and an MFA in fiction from New York University, where he was awarded…