🎧 Fantastic new podcast episode: Rebecca Monteleone and @ashleyshoo.bsky.social in conversation about medical technologies, bodily authority, and how users navigate complicated constraints. share.transistor.fm/s/a581e7be

"Humankind will always make ghosts faster than we can make peace with them." Joshua Comaroff's SPECTROPOLIS reviewed in @harpers.bsky.social harpers.org/archive/2025...

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! www.upress.umn.edu/978151792034...

"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 @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social and @bethrooney.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/4kh7...

Congrats to Rebecca Monteleone whose book, The Double Bind of Disability, came out today! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791768... I got to ask her questions about it for this podcast (which also came out today): share.transistor.fm/s/a581e7be (UMinn Press does some really cool things.)

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

Many new releases today! (1/2) -The Double Bind of Disability / @beccamonteleone.bsky.social -Place-Keepers / Jessica Lopez Lyman, on Latina/x women artists in the Twin Cities -States of Defeat / @fritamoreno.bsky.social -The Eurabia Myth / Mehammed Amadeus Mack

If you're attending the American Studies Association conference this week, come join us for a roundtable on my @uminnpress.bsky.social 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

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 @uminnpress.bsky.social Pubs on May 19, 2026

Interview at @thesocietypages.bsky.social on newly released volume with @uminnpress.bsky.social addressing bullying. We need to change how queer bullying is understood in order to create more effective interventions and policy.

Among several reasons to recommend this episode is the lengthy good faith discussion of what fascism is, both during my convo with @aprilanson.bsky.social & Alex Menrisky, & during the Q&A that followed. Inspired in part by Alex’s great book, published this year by @uminnpress.bsky.social

Big thanks to the @bookcougars.bsky.social for including LEAF TOWN FOREVER from @uminnpress.bsky.social in their October 3rd episode! www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8XS...

These banger essays (and mine, banger or not you be the judge—the others definitely are) were made possible by a University Press @uminnpress.bsky.social Happy University Press week!

🎧 Fantastic new conversation on our podcast! Featuring Danny Snelson, Vicki Bennett (People Like Us) / @vickiwfmu.bsky.social , Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra on the digitized afterlives of cultural objects. share.transistor.fm/s/d0afdbc0

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! conta.cc/4qR3Qfo

"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." lithub.com/celebration-... via @lithub.com.web.brid.gy

Read my sister's book www.upress.umn.edu/978145295943...

Economies and Economics of Italian Anti-Mafia #Activism and Resistance @uminnpress.bsky.social economicsociology.org/2025/11/10/e...

Excellent new titles releasing today: -Mysterious Tales of Old Minneapolis, fiction by Larry Millett -Everything Is Permitted: On Assassin's Creed by @ckunzelman.bsky.social -By Their Work: Indigenous Women's Digital Media in North America, edited by Joanna Hearne and @karrmencrey.bsky.social

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 @uminnpress.bsky.social buff.ly/DcCEGhd

Finding Each Other and the Stakes of Public Education: A zoom discussion Nov. 11th, 8pm Eastern, with Ujju Aggarwal, hosted by @debtcollective.bsky.social debtcollective.org/event/findin...

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. www.upress.umn.edu/collection-h...

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? www.upress.umn.edu/978081669430... 🗃️

A link to my new book cover and table of contents. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...

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” https://bit.ly/43S4pf8#UPWeek#ReadUP..

Heads up that my books published through @uminnpress.bsky.social 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).

"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/

It's alive!!!! Issue 129 of @culturalcritique.bsky.social -- on "Mourning Without End" -- is now live via @projectmuse.bsky.social and @uminnpress.bsky.social. Very grateful to all the contributors! (I wrote about death and laughter.) 📚 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55881 muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...

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

Ujju Aggarwal's UNSETTLING CHOICE has won a Critics' Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association! @aesatalk.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151791567...

Re-upping @jgbridgergilmore.bsky.social's review of Brooks E. Hefner's BLACK PULP (@uminnpress.bsky.social); hoping THE MARTIAN TRILOGY leads to more of these genre stories from "Illustrated Feature Section" & other Black serials getting rediscovered!

NEW FREE POST-ELECTION HELL! Sasha Davis on “Replace the State: How to Change the World When Elections and Protests Fail” (@uminnpress.bsky.social). www.patreon.com/posts/new-el... Help us keep our thisishell.com archive free. Join us on Patreon and get weekly bonus content.

🎧 New podcast episode featuring Willi Lempert and Karrmen Crey on Indigenous filmmaking and futures. share.transistor.fm/s/952dd9d3

Sasha Davis ( @replacethestate.bsky.social ) appearing on This Is Hell! thisishell.com/episodes/1869

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 @uminnpress.bsky.social!!

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

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

New book, Divest, coming out in spring 2026 with @uminnpress.bsky.social 🍉 www.upress.umn.edu/978151792148...

Looking forward to this! 🏳️‍⚧️📚 Thank you, @uminnpress.bsky.social, for publishing #TransPhilosophy ❤️‍🔥 🌈📚 🌈🎓 #AcademicSky #BookSky #PhilosophySky #TransStudies

It's Halloween! 🎃 Naturally I am working on the preface to Monster Theory 3.0, under contract with @uminnpress.bsky.social and offering more than twenty new essays in monster studies as well as a rethinking of "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)."

👻🎃📚 Final stretch! 30% off books in our Ghosts and Monsters collection with code MN93980. www.upress.umn.edu/ghosts-and-m...

New journal issue: Norwegian-American Studies 43 is now live @projectmuse.bsky.social Editor: Anna Peterson Free article: J. R. Christianson, "Seven Generations: A Century of Norwegian-American History" muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...

New journal issue: Buildings & Landscapes 32.2, now live on @projectmuse.bsky.social Editors: Margaret Grubiak and William Moore muse.jhu.edu/issue/55781

New #BookReview: "Cinemal: The Becoming-Animal of Experimental Film" Written by Tessa Laird Reviewed by Jonathan Burt @UniMelb.bsky.social @UMinnPress.bsky.social #Anthrozoology #Animals #Cinema doi.org/10.1080/0892...

if you are wondering why the Trump administration is creating racist memes with images from Halo and Lord of the Rings

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.

I've been editing the page proofs for my forthcoming game studies book, The Impossible Reversal (coming out in Feb with @uminnpress.bsky.social). I'm starting to get pretty excited! The table of contents turned out to be pretty enticing, no?

🎧 New on our podcast: Joyce Cheng and Jonathan Eburne launch the Surrealisms series, talking surrealism's formative Paris years and its ethnographic dimension. share.transistor.fm/s/383eeead

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 @mitpress.bsky.social Any others?

Today's important new releases: -Queer Kids and Social Violence / @ecpayne.bsky.social and Melissa J. Smith, editors / @queeringedu.bsky.social -On the Eve of the Cybercultural Revolution / Brian Bartell