A Milkweed Chronicle: The Formative Years of a Literary Nonprofit Press

by Buchwald, Emilie
ISBN: 9781639550470
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The formative days of Milkweed Editions - a story told by its cofounder.
In the 1970s and '80s, as major New York publishing houses were consolidating and growing ever larger, small nonprofit presses and journals emerged. With a variety of missions--literary, social, political--these small publishers shared a desire to prioritize quality over quantity. One was Milkweed Chronicle, the literary and visual arts journal launched in 1980 by writer Emilie Buchwald and artist R.W. Scholes in Minneapolis--a city experiencing significant growth in the arts--that would become Milkweed Editions.
A Milkweed Chronicle is the first-person account by cofounder Emilie Buchwald of how the journal morphed into an award-winning nonprofit literary press. It is the story of writers who established Milkweed's reputation for excellence in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction--and especially, by the mid-1990s, in books about the natural world. And it is also the story of the editors and staff who established and first achieved Milkweed's mission of publishing transformative literature.
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Buchwald, Emilie
  • ISBN: 9781639550470
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.90 x 0.50
  • Number Of Pages: 150
  • Publication Year: 2021
Language: English