Milkweed Editions

07/07/2025

Looking for your summer road trip playlist? THE ALLURE OF ELSEWHERE author Karen Babine has got you covered: https://largeheartedboy.com/2025/06/20/karen-babines-music-playlist-for-her-memoir-the-allure-of-elsewhere/!

Categories Author Playlists Karen Babine’s music playlist for her memoir The Allure of Elsewhere “It’s a blues-bluegrass heavy playlist, because something about that is just perfect for making my way about the world. And what’s not to love about music in your vocal range with a harmony line ...

07/06/2025

“[Kabat] is a storyteller with a gift for making associative connections between time, place, memory, and land. In Nightshining she weaves personal and generational grief, mid-century weather experiments, community resilience, and many other threads into a multi-layered tapestry of a place and the histories that have shaped it.”—Electric Literature ⁠
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Read the full interview between Summer J. Hart and Jennifer Kabat on Electric Literature here: https://electricliterature.com/jennifer-kabat-discovered-kurt-vonneguts-brother-caused-her-towns-catastrophic-flood/

And then pick up your copy of NIGHTSHINING from your favorite independent bookstore or library today! ⁠Learn more here: https://milkweed.org/book/nightshining.
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NIGHTSHINING: A MEMOIR IN FOUR FLOODS by Jennifer Kabat is a propulsive, layered examination of the conflict between the course of nature and human legacies of resistance and control.⁠
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Floods, geoengineering, climate crisis. Her first year in Margaretville, New York, Jennifer Kabat wakes to a rain-swollen stream and her basement flooding. As she delves into the region’s fraught environmental history, it becomes clear that this is far from the first—and hardly the worst—disaster in the region. Tracing connections across time, she uncovers Cold War weather experiments, betrayals of the Mohawk Nation, and an unlikely cast of characters, including Kurt Vonnegut’s older brother, Bernard—all reflected through grief brought on by her father’s recent passing.⁠
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Inquisitive and experimental, NIGHTSHINING uses place as a palimpsest of history. With lyrical incision, Kabat mirrors her own life experience and the essence of being human—the cosmos thrumming in our bodies, connecting readers to the land around us and time before us.

The author of “Nightshining” on connecting to place, Nabokov's blue butterfly, and America’s mid-century rainmakers

07/01/2025

Calling all Milkweed Members: Join us on July 30th for a very special virtual event with beloved WORLD OF WONDERS author Aimee Nezhukumatathil hosted by our friends at the National Park Foundation!

Not a member yet? Learn more and join at any level to get the registration link for this event. Explore all of the benefits and impact of your support and sign up here: https://milkweed.org/milkweed-membership.

06/28/2025

Looking for a perfect book this summer? Mpls.St.Paul Magazine recommends Karen Babine's THE ALLURE OF ELSEWHERE!

"Two-time Minnesota Book Award winner Karen Babine’s memoir traverses through Babine’s cross-country road trip from Minnesota to Nova Scotia in a Scamp camper with only her two (in her words, “unenthusiastic”) cats for company. While driving and stopping along the way, she confronts giant existential questions about identity, the place individuals can and should have in history (and our need to be remembered), what it means to be a solo-on-purpose woman, and our blanket desire to belong." —Mpls.St.Paul Magazine (https://mspmag.com/arts-and-culture/mn-summer-reads-2025-books-list/)

Pick up your copy at a bookstore or library near you, or learn more here: https://milkweed.org/book/the-allure-of-elsewhere.

Page-turners that are new and hot right now.

06/27/2025

✨️ “When you walk down the street and notice something has changed, your brain bears the memory of what was there. Everything exists in multiplicities. For me, the past is as alive as what’s happening now.”⁠—Jennifer Kabat on NIGHTSHINING in BOMB Magazine

💣️ The Summer issue of BOMB Magazine is here! Be sure to pick up a copy for an exclusive print interview between NIGHTSHINING author Jennifer Kabat and Laura Marris where they discuss hummingbirds, craft, and friendship. ⁠
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☔️ NIGHTSHINING: A MEMOIR IN FOUR FLOODS by Jennifer Kabat is a propulsive, layered examination of the conflict between the course of nature and human legacies of resistance and control. Pick up your copy form your favorite indie today, learn more here: milkweed.org/book/nightshining.

06/25/2025

From celebrated poet and ecologist Katherine Larson, WEDDING OF THE FOXES is an elegant collection of lyric essays that embraces fractures, contradictions, and the interconnectedness of life on Earth.

Publishing on July 15, you can preorder your copy from your favorite bookseller today, or learn more here: milkweed.org/book/wedding-of-the-foxes.

And join us in Tucson on August 3 for a book launch event at Hotel Congress for University of Arizona Summer Social: http://poetry.arizona.edu/calendar/summer-social-book-launch-katherine-larson%E2%80%99s-wedding-foxes.

06/24/2025

🗞️ "Whybrow’s closely observed accounts of working as a shepherd on her Vermont farm are filled with muck, sweat and a hard-won sense of the interconnectedness of the natural world."—The Washington Post⁠ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/06/22/shepherd-memoir-salt-stones-helen-whybrow-review/)
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🐏 Set in Vermont’s Green Mountains, THE SALT STONES by Helen Whybrow is a profoundly moving meditation on the lessons and wisdom that come from raising a family, tending sheep, and living close to the land.⁠
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📖 Pick up your copy wherever you like to get your books today, and swipe through for photos from the farm, a sneak peek at the gorgeous woodblock print illustrations by Wren Fortunoff, and for the remaining book tour stop details! ⁠
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🔗 Learn more here: https://milkweed.org/book/the-salt-stones.

06/16/2025

Join us in Minneapolis this fall: International bestselling BRAIDING SWEETGRASS author Robin Wall Kimmerer and 24th US Poet Laureate Ada Limón will be in conversation for the first time ever on Wednesday, October 8, 2025 at the Pantages Theatre. This event is presented by Milkweed Editions, Trust for Public Land, and Hennepin Arts.⁠
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Ada Limón & Robin Wall Kimmerer:⁠ All Flourishing is Mutual⁠
Wednesday, October 8, 2025 | 7:00 p.m.⁠
Pantages Theatre, Minneapolis⁠
⁠(https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/060062BE9F4E5180)
Tickets go on sale to the public on Friday, June 20, at 10:00 a.m. (CT).
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Early access presale tickets are available to Milkweed Members on June 18 & 19. Join our membership program for as little as $5/month to support the publication of life-changing literature like that of Robin and Ada. Join today and we will send you the presale code in your confirmation email! Learn more and join here: https://milkweed.org/milkweed-membership.

06/14/2025

Read with all year long by stocking up on titles by LGBTQ+ authors: https://milkweed.org/collection/lgbtq-authors.

Use code PRIDE25 to receive a 15% discount off of books on our LGBTQ+ reading list purchased via milkweed.org— now through the end of July, 2025.
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We publish and promote books by LGBTQ+ authors all year round, and we love the opportunity for an extra signal boost during PRIDE month. When you purchase books, authors directly benefit from the proceeds of the sale in the form of royalties.

Stock up, q***r your bookshelf, and share these voices with care!

06/13/2025

📢 The readers have spoken: BECOMING LITTLE SHELL: A LANDLESS INDIAN'S JOURNEY HOME by Chris La Tray is the winner of the 35th annual Reading the West Book Award in the Memoir and Biography category! Congratulations to all of the Reading the West finalists and winners in each category: https://readingthewest.com/winners-3/.
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📖 From Montana Poet Laureate Chris La Tray, BECOMING LITTLE SHELL is a singular story of discovery and embrace of Indigenous identity. (⁠https://milkweed.org/book/becoming-little-shell)
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⛰️ The Reading the West Book Awards are sponsored and promoted by the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association. The awards honor the best fiction, non-fiction, and illustrated books for adults and children set in one of the states, or created by an author or artist living or working in the region. The awards, given to books published in the previous calendar year, celebrate the rich variety of writing in and about this region, and reflect the extraordinary diversity of the reading public.⁠
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📚️ Pick up your copy of BECOMING LITTLE SHELL from your favorite independent bookstore today!

06/09/2025

Curious to know what Vermont booksellers recommend as essential reading? THE SALT STONES by Helen Whybrow of course!

Tune in to Vermont Public find out more about what booksellers and librarians are reading this summer: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-edition/2025-06-05/summer-reading-ease-into-the-season-with-these-book-recommendations.

Set in Vermont’s Green Mountains, THE SALT STONES: SEASONS OF A SHEPHERD'S LIFE by Helen Whybrow is a profoundly moving meditation on the lessons and wisdom that come from raising a family, tending sheep, and living close to the land. Pick up your from your favorite bookseller today!

Learn more here: https://milkweed.org/book/the-salt-stones.

A panel of professional book lovers will share their ideas for great summertime reads.

06/08/2025

⭕️ “Smart, funny, wise of mind and vast of heart, THE WAY AROUND offers a beautiful, intricate rebuke to our obsession with linearity and outcome. In place of the summit, it argues for the circumambulation; in place of the line, the circle; in place of the goal, the return.”—Robert Macfarlane⁠
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📖 Nicholas Triolo’s THE WAY AROUND is a soulful exploration of what it means to walk with purpose. From sacred trails in Tibet to California’s Mount Tamalpais and Montana’s toxic mining scar, Triolo traces three powerful circles—each a step away from burnout and toward transformation. Blending adventure, reflection, and a deep sense of place, this is a book for seekers, runners, and anyone craving a new way forward. ⁠
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🔗 Publishing July 8, preorder from your favorite independent bookseller today and be among the first to experience a true revolution of heart and home. Learn more here: https://milkweed.org/book/the-way-around.
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📆 Catch Nicholas Triolo on tour this summer: ⁠https://milkweed.org/events?f%5B0%5D=author%3A3253.
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Monday, June 9 | 6:00 PM⁠
With Robert Macfarlane⁠
Open Book | Minneapolis, MN⁠
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Tuesday, July 8 | 6:00 PM⁠
With Fact & Fiction Books⁠
Missoula Public Library | Missoula, MT⁠
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Tuesday, July 15 | TBA⁠
Upstart & Crow | Vancouver, BC⁠
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Wednesday, July 16 | 7:00 PM⁠
Elliott Bay Book Company | Seattle, WA⁠
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Thursday, July 17 | 7:00 PM⁠
With Gregory Gourdet⁠
Powell's City of Books | Portland, OR⁠
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Wednesday, July 23 | 7:00 PM⁠
With Josh Jackson⁠
Green Apple Books on the Park | San Francisco, CA⁠
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Thursday, July 24 | 6:00 PM⁠
Book Passage | Corte Madera, CA⁠
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Friday, July 25 | 7:00 PM⁠
Copperfield's Books | Sebastopol, CA⁠
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Saturday, July 26 | 3:00 PM⁠
Point Reyes Books | Point Reyes Station, CA