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100 Years Appreciation Post. The University of Minnesota Press was made official at a Board of Regents meeting on July 16, 1925. We have marked this milestone with an exhibit at the U's Andersen Library and content that can be viewed at
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🎧 Fantastic new podcast episode: Rebecca Monteleone and
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in conversation about medical technologies, bodily authority, and how users navigate complicated constraints.
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"Humankind will always make ghosts faster than we can make peace with them." Joshua Comaroff's SPECTROPOLIS reviewed in
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New Books, by Dan Piepenbring
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Jimmy Sweet
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Today is publication day for my book, Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest, through the University of Minnesota Press!
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Mixed-Blood Histories
An unprecedented study that puts mixed-ancestry Native Americans back into the heart of Indigenous history Historical accounts tend to neglect mixed-ancestry...
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517920340/mixed-blood-histories/
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"A perfect example of the spirit of childhood when it's set free to explore the vast, open spaces of the imaginable." Constant Wonder interviews LEAF TOWN FOREVER authors
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Finding Unique Beauty In A Town Made Of Leaves
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Congrats to Rebecca Monteleone whose book, The Double Bind of Disability, came out today!
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I got to ask her questions about it for this podcast (which also came out today):
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(UMinn Press does some really cool things.)
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The Double Bind of Disability
Exposing the ableism underlying medical innovation As medical advancements continue to shape the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of disability and il...
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917685/the-double-bind-of-disability/
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More beautiful releases today! (2/2) -Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest / Jameson R. Sweet -The Prettiest Woman: Nostalgia for Late Industrial Capitalism / Grant Farred -Now in PB: Mysterious Tales of Old St. Paul / Larry Millett
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Many new releases today! (1/2) -The Double Bind of Disability /
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-Place-Keepers / Jessica Lopez Lyman, on Latina/x women artists in the Twin Cities -States of Defeat /
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-The Eurabia Myth / Mehammed Amadeus Mack
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Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸
3 days ago
If you're attending the American Studies Association conference this week, come join us for a roundtable on my
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book! I'm excited to be in conversation with these brilliant scholars & everyone who attends! Thurs Nov 20th 9:45 to 11:15 AM Convention Center Ballroom A Salon A
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Shannon Gibney
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My new children’s PB, about a young girl moving through her mother’s stillbirth and illustrated by Huy Voun Lee, is now available for preorder at
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Pubs on May 19, 2026
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Where Is My Sister?
A poignant resource for helping children and families through the loss of a siblingSalome was going to be a big sister. Her brother, Gerald, told her so. The...
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517911454/where-is-my-sister/#:~:text=In%20Where%20Is%20My%20Sister,from%20this%20world%20too%20soon
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Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI)®️
4 days ago
Interview at
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on newly released volume with
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addressing bullying. We need to change how queer bullying is understood in order to create more effective interventions and policy.
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Matt Seybold
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Among several reasons to recommend this episode is the lengthy good faith discussion of what fascism is, both during my convo with
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& Alex Menrisky, & during the Q&A that followed. Inspired in part by Alex’s great book, published this year by
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Everyday Ecofascism (Vandal Live at 2025 Quarry Farm Symposium)
with April Anson, Alexander Menrisky, & Jeffrey Insko
https://open.substack.com/pub/theamericanvandal/p/everyday-ecofascism-vandal-live-at?r=hykx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Kathleen Rooney
7 days ago
Big thanks to the
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for including LEAF TOWN FOREVER from
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in their October 3rd episode!
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Friday Reads 3 October 2025 #VICTOBER
YouTube video by Book Cougars
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Juan Meneses | Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination
7 days ago
These banger essays (and mine, banger or not you be the judge—the others definitely are) were made possible by a University Press
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Happy University Press week!
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🎧 Fantastic new conversation on our podcast! Featuring Danny Snelson, Vicki Bennett (People Like Us) /
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, Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra on the digitized afterlives of cultural objects.
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Kick your personalized holiday shopping up a notch, or fill your own shelves with Minnesota treasures: This week's e-newsletter spotlights our Read Minnesota book sale!
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"I turn to literature for guidance and models of how to navigate this strange world . . . black writers, especially black women writers, have always served as models for me."
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Celebration and Struggle: On the Life and Work of Alice Childress
I was born into a country where people with uteruses had the right to choose if, when, and how they would carry a fetus to full term. I don’t live in that country anymore. I grew up in a world wher…
https://lithub.com/celebration-and-struggle-on-the-life-and-work-of-alice-childress/
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Natalia Cecire
9 days ago
Read my sister's book
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Economic Sociology & Political Economy
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Economies and Economics of Italian Anti-Mafia
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Economies and Economics of Italian Anti-Mafia Activism
by Christina Jerne* In April 2020, a truck transporting half a million euros in cash was stopped at Italy’s eastern border, testifying that the ’Ndrangheta, one of the world’s largest and richest m…
https://economicsociology.org/2025/11/10/economies-and-economics-of-italian-anti-mafia-activism/
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Excellent new titles releasing today: -Mysterious Tales of Old Minneapolis, fiction by Larry Millett -Everything Is Permitted: On Assassin's Creed by
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-By Their Work: Indigenous Women's Digital Media in North America, edited by Joanna Hearne and
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10 days ago
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The Syllabus
10 days ago
Drawing on the Boggs’ cybercultural analysis, our book of the week reveals how Black radical thinkers traced automation’s roots to colonialism and slavery, seeing cyberculture as a site where labor, ecology, and race collide. By Brian Bartell on
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Finding Each Other and the Stakes of Public Education: A zoom discussion Nov. 11th, 8pm Eastern, with Ujju Aggarwal, hosted by
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Finding Each Other and the Stakes of Public Education
What opportunities do our present combined crises—of austerity and intensified facism—present us with in considering how we struggle over…
https://debtcollective.org/event/finding-each-other-and-the-stakes-of-public-education/
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Eye-opening books on the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald on November 10, 1975, and other shipwreck stories of life and loss. Select titles now 30% off with code MN94100.
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Jeff Manuel
13 days ago
If you're planing to spend the weekend preparing for the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Monday, but you just don't know enough about the taconite pellets that were in the ship's ill-fated hold, may I recommend a book for you?
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Taconite Dreams
Winner of the Midwestern History Association's 2016 Hamlin Garland Prize The Iron Range earned its name honestly: it was once among the world’s richest ...
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816694303/taconite-dreams/
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Lisa Nakamura
14 days ago
A link to my new book cover and table of contents.
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The Inattention Economy
Revealing the unheralded contributions of women of color to the foundation and development of the digital economyThe Inattention Economy challenges the wides...
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816699063/the-inattention-economy/
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Association of University Presses
11 days ago
Thanks for the #UPWeek love, @literaryhub.bsky.social! Many university presses are dedicated to Teaming UP with translators to advance knowledge & understanding. Discover 17 outstanding examples to #ReadUP in “ Reading Around the World”
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Reading Around the World: 17 Great Books in Translation From University Presses
Want to travel around the world without leaving your house? Just pick up a book that was translated from another language. Whether you are reading a novel originally written in French, a memoir ori…
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Shannon Gibney
14 days ago
Heads up that my books published through
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are included in their Read MN holiday gift guide, a sale campaign where readers get 30% off when they order from their website with code MN94100 (good through Jan. 15, 2026).
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Los Angeles Review of Books
15 days ago
"Amid hints that AI is a spectral bubble floating a hallucinatory economy, these books suggest just how weird things will get." Jordan Williamson reviews Derek Lee’s “Parascientific Revolutions” and Joshua Comaroff’s “Spectropolis”:
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/disenchanted-enchantment/
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Maggie Hennefeld
15 days ago
It's alive!!!! Issue 129 of
@culturalcritique.bsky.social
-- on "Mourning Without End" -- is now live via
@projectmuse.bsky.social
and
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. Very grateful to all the contributors! (I wrote about death and laughter.) 📚
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MN: Celebrate reading with us this Saturday at the Twin Cities Book Festival in its new location: St. Paul's Union Depot! Join us for special discounts, swag, and the chance to meet beloved authors.
z.umn.edu/tcbf25
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University of Minnesota Press at Twin Cities Book Festival 2025 - University of Minnesota Press
Join the University of Minnesota Press on Saturday, November 8, at Rain Taxi's 2025 Twin Cities Book Festival! From 10am to 5pm, drop in for discounted book shopping, talks, and signings from authors ...
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Ujju Aggarwal's UNSETTLING CHOICE has won a Critics' Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association!
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Ancillary Review of Books
15 days ago
Re-upping
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's review of Brooks E. Hefner's BLACK PULP (
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); hoping THE MARTIAN TRILOGY leads to more of these genre stories from "Illustrated Feature Section" & other Black serials getting rediscovered!
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Black Genre Fiction Reimagined: Review of Black Pulp by Brooks E. Hefner
Black Genre Fiction Reimagined: Review of Black Pulp by Brooks E. Hefner Garrett Bridger Gilmore Under Review:Black Pulp. Brooks E. Hefner. University of Minnesota Press, December 2021. In hi…
https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2022/02/11/black-genre-fiction-reimagined-review-of-black-pulp-by-brooks-e-hefner%ef%bf%bc/
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15 days ago
NEW FREE POST-ELECTION HELL! Sasha Davis on “Replace the State: How to Change the World When Elections and Protests Fail” (
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NEW Election Day Special: 'Replace the State' with Sasha Davis | This Is Hell!
Get more from This Is Hell! on Patreon
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🎧 New podcast episode featuring Willi Lempert and Karrmen Crey on Indigenous filmmaking and futures.
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Sasha Davis (
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thisishell.com/episodes/1869
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Episode 1869: Can One Change The World When Elections And Protests Fail / Sasha Davis
Replace The State
https://thisishell.com/episodes/1869
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Dan Hassler-Forest
16 days ago
Big book milestone today: I finished and filed all my page proof corrections and the indexing to my book FAST & FURIOUS FRANCHISING. In print soon from
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Two exciting lit releases today: -An Eye for an I: Growing Up with Blindness, Bigotry, and Family Mental Illness, memoir by James Francisco Bonilla -Now in paperback: A Song over Miskwaa Rapids: A Novel by Linda LeGarde Grover
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Four brand-new scholarly books out today: -Nothing Wanting / KJ Cerankowski -First Light / Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar -Indigenous Inhumanities / Mark Minch-de Leon -Spectropolis / Joshua Comaroff
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Steven Swarbrick
17 days ago
New book, Divest, coming out in spring 2026 with
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Divest
A manifesto for liberating desire from the grip of capital and colonial violence in PalestineCould a psychoanalytic theory of masochism help us to understand...
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921484/divest/
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christopher griffin
21 days ago
Looking forward to this! 🏳️⚧️📚 Thank you,
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, for publishing
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Jeffrey J Cohen
21 days ago
It's Halloween! 🎃 Naturally I am working on the preface to Monster Theory 3.0, under contract with
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and offering more than twenty new essays in monster studies as well as a rethinking of "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)."
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👻🎃📚 Final stretch! 30% off books in our Ghosts and Monsters collection with code MN93980.
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New journal issue: Norwegian-American Studies 43 is now live
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Editor: Anna Peterson Free article: J. R. Christianson, "Seven Generations: A Century of Norwegian-American History"
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New journal issue: Buildings & Landscapes 32.2, now live on
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Editors: Margaret Grubiak and William Moore
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21 days ago
New
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: "Cinemal: The Becoming-Animal of Experimental Film" Written by Tessa Laird Reviewed by Jonathan Burt
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22 days ago
if you are wondering why the Trump administration is creating racist memes with images from Halo and Lord of the Rings
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Speculative Whiteness
Reveals the alt-right’s project to claim science fiction and—by extension—the future Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films a...
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917081/speculative-whiteness/
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Publishers Weekly
23 days ago
Doug Armato, who has helmed the 100-year-old press for 27 years, is retiring at the end of December. His tenure saw the expansion of the press’s list and the development of strong Indigenous studies, trade, and regional publishing programs.
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University of Minnesota Press Director Retires
Doug Armato, who has helmed the 100-year-old press for 27 years, is retiring at the end of December. His tenure saw the expansion of the press’s list and the development of strong Indigenous studies,…
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Peter McDonald
23 days ago
I've been editing the page proofs for my forthcoming game studies book, The Impossible Reversal (coming out in Feb with
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🎧 New on our podcast: Joyce Cheng and Jonathan Eburne launch the Surrealisms series, talking surrealism's formative Paris years and its ethnographic dimension.
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23 days ago
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Noah Wardrip-Fruin
24 days ago
There's the new Replay series from
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
(featuring
@anasalter.bsky.social
& yours truly)
@ckunzelman.bsky.social
's new book on Assassin's Creed is from
@uminnpress.bsky.social
@chaimg.bsky.social
's 2024 book on SimCity is from
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Any others?
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Today's important new releases: -Queer Kids and Social Violence /
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and Melissa J. Smith, editors /
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-On the Eve of the Cybercultural Revolution / Brian Bartell
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