Garth Greenwell and Alicia Puglionesi at the Baltimore Book Festival: SMALL RAIN Paperback Launch

We’re so excited to see you at the Baltimore Book Festival, where you can visit us at our booth on Sept. 13-14. On Sunday, September 14th, we are thrilled to be hosting the 31st St. Stage.

At 12PM, join us to hear from Garth Greenwell and Alicia Puglionesi, who will be celebrating the paperback launch of SMALL RAIN, Garth Greenwell’s latest novel! Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, SMALL RAIN is the story of an unexpected medical crisis that surges beyond the hospital to encompass a radiant vision of human life: our shared vulnerability, the limits and possibilities of sympathy, the ideal of art and the fragile dream of America.

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Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for many other awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award, the LA Times Book Prize, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

His second book, Cleanness, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and the Prix Sade, among others. A New York Times Notable Book, it was named a Best Book of 2020 by over thirty publications.

His new novel, Small Rain, won the 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

His cultural criticism has appeared widely, and he writes regularly about books, music, and film for the Substack newsletter To a Green Thought. A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the 2021 Vursell Award for prose style from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he is currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.

Alicia Puglionesi is a lecturer in the Medicine, Science, and the Humanities program at JHU. She holds a PhD in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, and is the author of two books, Common Phantoms (2020) and In Whose Ruins (2022), that concern relationships between spiritual belief and scientific knowledge. She teaches on health politics, the political economy of care, and health and science in popular literary genres.