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Rafael de Grenade

… Rafael de Grenade Rafael de Grenade is the author of Stilwater: Finding Wild Mercy in the Outback . She grew up in the foothills of the Santa Maria Mountains in northern … Rafael de Grenade is the author of Stilwater: Finding Wild Mercy in the Outback . She grew up in the foothills of the Santa Maria …

James DeVita

… three award-winning novels for young readers, including The Silenced. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, his playwriting has been … three award-winning novels for young readers, including The Silenced. The recipient of a National Endowment for the …

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Milkweed Books celebrates a year since reopening

… News / Bookstore This August, we’re proud to celebrate the one-year reopening anniversary of our brick-and-mortar … Milkweed Books! Originally established in 2016 at the nation’s largest literary center, Open Book , Milkweed Books is the realization of a long-held dream to deepen our connection …

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Two New Books! Happy Pub Date to Feverland and I Know Your Kind

Milkweed Staff

… / News / Watch & Listen We are thrilled to announce the publication of two very special books today: Alex Lemon’s … . When Alex recently recorded a short reading of “ EKG ,” the first essay of Feverland , he described the book as being about trauma, the fallibility of the body, …

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Kola: Jon Lurie and José Perez

… of meaningful connection to their cultural roots—Lurie as the son of a reticent Holocaust survivor, José attempting to … by centuries of oppression—Canoeing with José is the story of two men who embark on a two-thousand mile paddle from Breckenridge, Minnesota to the Hudson Bay. Faced with mosquitoes, extreme weather, …

Devon Walker-Figueroa

… Walker-Figueroa grew up in Kings Valley, a ghost town in the Oregon Coast Range, and received her education from … Community College, Cornell University, Bennington College, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and New York University, where she was the Jill Davis Fellow in fiction. Her writing has appeared in …

Bookstore / Roundup

Bookseller Recommendations: October

… month’s recommendations from our bookstore staff feature the feel-good power of cooking , hot chilies to eat and … joke that if you spend enough time staring at our shelves, the strange little subgenres of our interests eventually … art books, and that ever-under-appreciated form: the essay. If you haven’t yet, SIGN UP for our new …

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Fitzcarraldo Editions

Forest Avenue Press

Michael Shou-Yung Shum

You and I Eat the Same

This Young Monster

An Anarchy of Chilies

Queen of Spades

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Read This Next: Daley Recommends (May)

… title I chose is a slender, weird little book driven by the author’s irresistible voice and forceful personality. In … reckoning with history, and sense of place. I Await the Devil’s Coming Mary MacLane Melville House Books, 2013 Nonfiction/Diary I Await the Devil’s Coming details the philosophies and day-to-day …

Jim Heynen

… is perhaps best known for his short-short stories about “the boys.” He has published widely as the author of nonfiction, poetry, and novels and short … adults and young readers, most recently Ordinary Sins and The Fall of Alice K. His stories about “the boys” have often …

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Milkweed Books: Our Favorite Books to Give in 2016

… / Roundup Most bookstores do year-end lists and highlight the titles their booksellers have enjoyed selling over the past year. But given the fact that we (as Milkweed Books booksellers ) have only … Most bookstores do year-end lists and highlight the titles their booksellers have enjoyed selling over the …

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