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Presence and Absence: A Cover Image Story

Milkweed Staff

… Absence: A Cover Image Story Authors by Victoria Chang The cover for Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief , emerged organically, in the same way that this book emerged. After my mother died, there was the obvious grieving of my mother as body, as mind, as caretaker, but I was …

Fady Joudah

… Fady Joudah Fady Joudah is the author of […] . He has also published six collections of poems: The Earth in the Attic ; Alight ; Textu , a book-long sequence of short poems whose meter is based on … Fady Joudah is the author of […] . He has also published six collections …

Hayan Charara

… Hayan Charara Hayan Charara is the author of These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit . He is a poet, children’s book author, essayist, and editor. His other collections of … Hayan Charara is the author of These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That …

Jennifer duBois

… Jennifer duBois Jennifer duBois is the author of The Last Language . Her first novel, A Partial History of … Award for Debut Novel and winner of the California Book Award for First Work of Fiction. Soon after its … Jennifer duBois is the author of The Last Language . Her first novel, A Partial …

Deirdre McNamer

… Deirdre McNamer Deirdre McNamer is the author of five novels: Aviary , Rima in the Weeds , One Sweet … , and Red Rover , which was a winner of the Montana Book Award and was named a best book of the year by Artforum … Deirdre McNamer is the author of five novels: Aviary , Rima in the Weeds , One …

Bookstore / Roundup

Bookseller Recommendations: ? Halloween Edition! ?

… ? Halloween Edition! ? Bookstore / Roundup We are feeling the Halloween spirit here at Milkweed Books (have you seen … display ?), so to celebrate, here is a ? bonus round ? of book recommendations featuring the dark and scary stuff we … We are feeling the Halloween spirit here at Milkweed Books (have you seen …

Michael Lesy

Wisconsin Death Trip

University of New Mexico Press

Penguin Classics

The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus

Hans Jakob Christoffel Von Grimmelshausen

Halloween

Bookseller Recommendations

Claire Wahmanholm

… Claire Wahmanholm Claire Wahmanholm is the author of Wilder , Redmouth , and, most recently, Meltwater , which … for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Minnesota Book Award, and was a National Book Award Science + … Claire Wahmanholm is the author of Wilder , Redmouth , and, most recently, …

Antonio Michael Downing

… Boy was called “singularly dazzling” by Kiese Laymon and “the triumph of Blackness everywhere” by Scotiabank Giller Prize–winner … RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Writer Award, the 2021 Toronto Book Award, and the 2021 Speaker’s Book Award. He is also the … was called “singularly dazzling” by Kiese Laymon and “the triumph of Blackness everywhere” by Scotiabank Giller …

Bookstore / Roundup

Bookseller Recommendations: August

Milkweed Staff

… month all come directly from shelf-talkers that we have in the Milkweed Books store. Shelf-talkers can, and do, take a lot of different forms in both our store and others across the … titles. They are short and not meant to be a review of the book per se but an idea, be it very specific or more general, …

Kerri ní Dochartaigh

… Kerri ní Dochartaigh Kerri nÍ Dochartaigh’s first book, Thin Places , was published in Spring 2022 in the US . It was an Indies Introduce selection for … Junior Library Guild selection for Spring 2022. Cacophony of Bone is her second book. She lives on the west coast of …