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Remembering Max Ritvo

… up to our booth during Justin Boening ’s first-ever book signing (“Justin Boening, sign my chest! ” he yelled, shouldering his way through the crowd), and then more officially one Friday in May 2016, when we received the manuscript of Four Reincarnations . We acquired the book just three days …

Max Ritvo

Four Reincarnations

Sean Hill

… Sean Hill Sean Hill is the author of Dangerous Goods , a Minnesota Book Award-winner, and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor , named one … Sean Hill is the author of Dangerous Goods , a Minnesota Book Award-winner, and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor , named one …

Authors / What Matters Most / Watch & Listen

What Matters Most | Ep. 4 Beth Dooley

Milkweed Staff

… What Matters Most / Watch & Listen Video URL Note: To view the closed captions, click the YouTube logo in the bottom … can follow along by subscribing here ! A joyful snippet of their conversation makes it into this week’s episode of … and Breaking Bread in the Northern Heartland , a Minnesota Book Award finalist. We are increasingly a publisher of both …

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Between the Covers

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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson : Theory of Water

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 05/01/2025

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Elaine Castillo : How to Read Now

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 09/18/2022

… Castillo, arguing that we are all overeducated in a set of fundamentally terrible reading techniques, ones that … impoverish us as readers and thinkers, ones that diminish the availability of meaning and meaningfulness in our lives. … Ledgerwood talks with writers she loves about modern life book culture and all the ways sharing stories illuminates our …

Authors / What Matters Most

Jos Charles' a Year & other poems is a door left open to form, fire, and fate

Milkweed Staff

… open to form, fire, and fate Authors / What Matters Most The year is 2021, and wildfires are ravaging the West Coast. … Enter the poet Jos Charles, whose seminal collection of poems, feeld , was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and … Every fragment is a month, and each month spills into the book-length poem that captures a year unlike any other. …

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Bookstore / Roundup

Read This Next: Celia Recommends (April)

… juvenile—its horizontal, free flowing drawings mimic the illustrations of a children’s book, and the tale of a girl who finds an (imaginary?) friend … juvenile—its horizontal, free flowing drawings mimic the illustrations of a children’s book, and the tale of a …

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#ireadindie: International Women's Day

… International Women's Day Roundup We’re proud to be part of the independent publishing community, promoting titles that … and happily rise to the occasion. This inspirational gift book encourages girls and women to seize the day, be kind to … We're proud to be part of the independent publishing community, promoting titles that …

Adventures in the Anthropocene

News / Awards & Prizes

Chris Santiago Wins 2016 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry

… & Prizes We are pleased to announce that Chris Santiago is the winner of the 2016 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry. For his … in December, and a public reading to celebrate the book will be held in early November. ##### ABOUT CHRIS … We are pleased to announce that Chris Santiago is the winner of the 2016 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry. …

Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry

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Read This Next: Celia Recommends (September)

… like children (I don’t), but because pregnancy is sort of the ultimate body horror. The body changes, unpredictably, … options as a middle-class woman in the 1930s. Much of the book is dedicated to childbirth and childrearing. Like … like children (I don’t), but because pregnancy is sort of the ultimate body horror. The body changes, unpredictably, in …

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