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Authors / Watch & Listen

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 …

Podcast

Between the Covers

Nonfiction / Poetry

Sangamithra Iyer : Governing Bodies : A Memoir, A Confluence, A Watershed

— 01/27/2026

… story about family. And a story about family is rooted in the earth…,” opens Sangamithra Iyer’s Governing Bodies. What … for a memoir to assume the elusive, ever-changing shape of water, to be the story of family but where the notion of … Governing Bodies, exemplifies many of these things. A book that is deeply personal and yet global in reach. A book …

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. …

LGBTQ

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 …

Milkweed Books

#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

Podcast

Fiction / SF/F

Nalo Hopkinson : Blackheart Man

— 09/01/2024

… - 8:17am Fiction / SF/F Todays’ guest is Grand Master of science fiction and fantasy Nalo Hopkinson. Together we center her first novel in over a decade, the remarkable Blackheart Man, and look at what it means to … differences, deeply Caribbean. Blackheart Man is a book exploring the “what-ifs” in the histories of marronage …

Podcast

Between the Covers

Fiction / Hybrid

Lidia Yuknavitch : Verge

— 07/20/2020

… 07/20/2020 - 7:37am Fiction / Hybrid “ Verge is a bouquet of dynamite: explosive, deadly, and spectacularly beautiful. … through survival, beauty through brokenness, joy by fire. The women who occupy them are my favorite kinds of heroines: … we share the same city. Then I imagined to talk about this book which is about, among other things, bodies and …