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Bill McKibben
W.W. Norton & Company ($29.99)
by John Abbotts
In the preface to our co-authored book The Menace of Atomic Energy (W.W. Norton & Company, 1977), Ralph Nader describes a 1974 discussion with Dr. Alvin Weinberg, former…
Banu Mushtaq
Translated by Deepa Bhasthi
And Other Stories ($19.95)
by Damhuri Muhammad
Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp: Selected Stories draws from six collections of fiction published in India since the 1990s; the first book by the Kannada-language writer to be published in English translation, it netted Mushtaq and translator Deepa…
by Dianne Bilyak
Editor’s Note: In the following roundtable conversation, we go behind the scenes of the recently published chapbook I Ask My Mother to Sing: Mother Poems of Li-Young Lee (Wesleyan University Press, $7.95), which was edited by Oliver Egger. Pocket sized…
25 years ago, we hosted poet Mark Nowak in our reading series for his stunning first book Revenants. Join us as we welcome Nowak to the…
Jamie (Schumacher) Kalakaru-Mava is a visual artist and accomplished writer. Her written work has been featured by Pollen, the Star Tribune, and the Minnesota Women’s Press. Her book It’s Never Going to Work was released in 2018 and…
Rain Taxi's Twin Cities Literary Calendar is once again publishing its pocket-sized Twin Cities Independent Bookstore Passport—offering readers a fun way to visit bookstores and win discounts and prizes. Our annual Bookstore Passport celebrates both Independent Bookstore Day (this year taking place on April 25, 2026) and our…
Edited by Dan Nadel, Laura Phipps, Scott Rothkopf, and Elisabeth Sussman
Whitney Museum of American Art ($50)
by Paul Buhle
Originally a product of France, Surrealism spawned adherents around the globe—including, here in the Midwest, the Chicago Surrealist Group, formed in 1966. Yet just as it grew to transcend geographical…
by Elise McHugh
Every acquisition editor can tell you stories of the ones that got away—those projects that excited us and that we had a great conversation with the author (or the author and their agent) about, but that ultimately ended up with a different publisher.…
Edited by Annette Gilbert and Andreas Bülhoff
Spector Books ($60)
As a publishing technology new to the 21st Century, Print on Demand (POD) enables a smaller book publisher (or a self-publishing author/artist) to print one bound copy at a…
March 5 - 7, 2026
Baltimore Convention Center
Baltimore, Maryland
As usual, Rain Taxi will be taking part in the annual AWP Conference & Bookfair, which this year takes place in Baltimore. Stop by our table to say hi, and see…