Experience the power of life-changing literature with preeminent climate change writer Elizabeth Rush, author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore and the forthcoming The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth. Enjoy dinner, drinks, a live auction, and more, while celebrating and supporting transformative books.

Funds raised from the Book Lovers Ball support Milkweed’s mission to identify, nurture, and publish transformative literature, and build an engaged community around it.

Join Elizabeth Rush in conversation with Bathsheba Demuth. Books will be for sale by Twenty Stories.

Join Elizabeth Rush in discussion about her new title The Quickening.

Join for an evening with Amber Caron, discussing her debut story collection Call Up the Waters, in conversation with Jennifer Carson, founder of To the Lighthouse.

Join as Martha Collins and Nguyen Ba Chung read from and discuss Dreaming the Mountain, their translations of Tue Sy’s work.

Join Juliet Patterson for a reading, conversation, and Q&A about her memoir Sinkhole.

Join Elizabeth Rush for discussion on her novel The Quickening.

Join David for discussion on his title Ice.

Join David for his reading from his 2023 collection, Ice for Smartish Pace’s “Hot L” Reading Series. With poet Laura Reece Hogan, author of 2023’s Butterfly Nebula, winner of the Backwaters Press Prize.

Join David Keplinger in conversation with poet Dorianne Laux.