Today's new releases: -Thinking Further (Vilém Flusser) -The Horror Theory Reader (Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, ed.) -Enchanted Wood (Kristin Bluemel) -Piano Decompositions (Heidi Hart and Beate Schirrmacher) -Forensic Mental Health Assessment With the MMPI-3 (z.umn.edu/az36)

Proud to have worked with you, Mike. RIP. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"We might not win in the end, but even in the attempt to resist, we will salvage some of our humanity." @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social 's TECHNO-NEGATIVE is a @lithub.com.web.brid.gy anticipated book of '26! lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos...

If "The Horror Theory Reader" is half as influential as its 2020 "Monster" version, this is a new textbook to snap up. @cypheractive.bsky.social & pals present chapters on why we watch and read horror, and what horror means to us. New from @uminnpress.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151791782...

Twin Cities lit folks: there is a rare opening to join the wonderful humans of @uminnpress.bsky.social in our marketing dept (mostly remote). It's a really good gig! www.upress.umn.edu/job-openings...

10 moments of arts-scene awe @minnpost.bsky.social : "With poignant character development, expert pacing and a masterful sense of place, “A Lesser Light” gave me a sense of awe for the great Lake Superior." www.minnpost.com/artscape/202...

I picked a hell of a time to start reading a book about white supremacist’s love of speculative fiction

What am I up to this new year? Lots. For one, I plan to do more events centered on my recent book from @uminnpress.bsky.social. #geosky #booksky Anyone who has ideas for talks at bookstores, campuses, or w/ groups send me a DM. I’ll announce events as they come together. So why am I doing this...

"TOUCH GRASS has never been more clearly demonstrated than in this new picture book. I urge readers to give it your time and attention..." Thanks to Unpacking the Power of Picture Books for reviewing LEAF TOWN FOREVER @uminnpress.bsky.social! unpackingpicturebookpower.blogspot.com/2026/01/new-...

Shouting out four beautiful wee-end-of-2025 releases: -Günther Anders's The Obsolescence of the Human (with @morbuscriticus.bsky.social) -Colin Williamson's Drawn to Nature -Olga Goriunova's Ideal Subjects -Anna Terwiel's Prison Abolition for Realists @amc-etc.bsky.social

Slice of SciFi 1157: #Mothra Professor Jeffrey Angles new book, The Luminous Fairies and Mothra, is the first ever English translation of the original novella bringing the mystical Mothra into existence. Available January 13 from @uminnpress.bsky.social www.sliceofscifi.com/2025/12/20/s...

In her memoir My Seven Mothers, Pernille Ipsen recounts growing up in a feminist camp—and chronicles the spirit, struggle, and determination of the Redstockings as they tried to build “a true alternative to the male society.” www.jezebel.com/how-womens-l...

"Jessica Lopez Lyman’s Place-Keepers: Latina/x Art, Performance, and Organizing in the Twin Cities offers an important snapshot of Latinx art and community in Minneapolis and St. Paul, two cities whose Latinx communities have been overlooked." www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

20 Theater Books for Your Winter 2026 Reading List

@uminnpress.bsky.social has the blurbs for The Impossible Reversal on their site ( www.upress.umn.edu/978151791622... ). I'm honored to have the amazing and generous Amy Ogata and Aaron Trammell as readers!

THE INNER HARBOUR by Antoine Volodine, tr. Gina M. Stamm (@uminnpress.bsky.social). Reviewed by @taniamalik.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/the-...

Scholar Umayyah Cable’s “Mainstreaming Palestine: iCinematic Activism and Solidarity Politics in the United States” (@uminnpress.bsky.social) traces decades of cinematic resistance, showing how Palestinians have fought erasure on screen.

Physical copies of our Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities book (newest volume in Debates in DH series) arrived today just in time for the holidays! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608... @uminnpress.bsky.social

Never not taking photos of @uminnpress.bsky.social books in the wild. (In this case at Wallace Books in Portland.)

We’re back and we’re here to review the newly translated novella, The Luminous Fairies and Mothra, releasing January 13th, 2026! We would like to thank @uminnpress.bsky.social for giving us the chance to do this! gforcekaijupod.buzzsprout.com/1032622/epis...

A friend of my brother's spotted the book I did with @lpennywark.bsky.social and @uminnpress.bsky.social in a bookstore in Edinburgh, and sent a pic to him, who shared it with me. Please update your contacts to call me Mr. Worldwide.

Thx to @uminnpress.bsky.social for this talk about @aupresses.bsky.social publishing: share.transistor.fm/s/5c6c6e92 HT @lisambayer.bsky.social, Dean Smith @dukepress.bsky.social, Jennifer Crew @columbiaup.bsky.social, @williamgermano.bsky.social, @gmbritton.bsky.social, @noctambulate.bsky.social

It's one thing to hear from a publisher, and another to hear about books from the wonderful people who write them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG9o... @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social @bethrooney.bsky.social @tamaradean.bsky.social @pipsen72.bsky.social

BOOK NEWS Exploring the rhetoric of ecofascism as a political genre Recent release from @uminnpress.bsky.social journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/12/book...

Thrilled that my picture book, WE MISS YOU, GEORGE FLOYD is a finalist for this auspicious award. 🙏🏾🤩 Awesome to be in the company of such phenomenal creators of stories for children about peace, justice, and resistance.

🆕🎧: Publishing leaders look back at decades of transformation and tenacity in the industry. A conversation for the occasion of director Doug Armato's retirement, with Lisa Bayer, Greg Britton, Jennifer Crewe, Dean Smith, and moderator Bill Germano. share.transistor.fm/s/5c6c6e92

Love to see more readers gaining access to this fantastic book, published in the U.S. by @uminnpress.bsky.social. If you haven’t read it, we recommend you do. Available here: bookshop.org/a/106297/978...

Thrilled to see Histories of the Transgender Child included here!

Meredith Willson (The Music Man) genially chronicles failures as he made his place in show business during the pivotal early 1950s, when radio was being overtaken by television, in this back-in-print memoir—out today! www.upress.umn.edu/978151792062...

"Kids these days, standing up to hatred and fear, are seeing a lot of themselves in books at the moment, that’s for sure." Huge thanks to librarian Betsy Bird for this amazing write-up of LEAF TOWN FOREVER from @uminnpress.bsky.social at @slj.com! afuse8production.slj.com/2025/12/16/3...

Hey y'all! This week Olive Demar and @elimeyerhoff.bsky.social look at the university’s role as a colonial and capitalist apparatus, arguing that we need to free education from the institutions that betray and abandon it. spectrejournal.com/reckoning-wi...

“At the front line of all of these things, beauty must still exist." Kao Kalia Yang explores the world of children's literature through readings, songs, and stories on Friday, Dec. 19th, at the Ordway in St. Paul. sahanjournal.com/arts-culture...

In her new book, artist-scholar Jessica Lopez Lyman examines how local Latina/x artists use their creative practice to reclaim space and resist oppression. She dives into these "movidas" in “Place-Keepers: Latina/x Art, Performance, and Organizing in the Twin Cities.”

Jessica Lopez Lyman’s debut book uncovers the artists, spaces and performances keeping Twin Cities Latina/x culture alive By Myah Goff

Loving this, loving them all & especially loving the appearance of The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige (in the middle!) lithub.com/the-173-best...

✨✨ Dreamy magic last night at Mpls's Granada Theater: Mary Lucia in conversation with Lizz Winstead. Lucia's fantastic memoir now available! upress.umn.edu/978151791886...

Mary Lucia has a new memoir about her life in radio and how radio put her life in peril. “The stalking part of the story was clearly the thrust,” she says. “But I couldn’t just write a book about how afraid I was—because who would read that?”

What made Mary Lucia and Jade Tittle so good at their jobs also brought a decade of abuse. Our desire to “know” on-air personalities puts women, especially, at risk.

Best 📚 since last 📚 (Even better than usual this week...) #PubLibs #FridayReads #Booksky

Today is the 1-yr anniversary of my book's publication date! *Abolition Time* was released by @uminnpress.bsky.social on Dec 10, 2024 ✨ If you'd like to write a review of the book and want to know how to acquire a copy, feel free to reach out! I may be able to point you to a journal! Also: (1/3)

Two NEW journal issue releases: -International Journal of Surrealism @isss-surrealism.bsky.social 3.1: Collage Editors: Alyce Mahon and Katharine Conley -Swedish-American Studies 76 Editor: Mark Safstrom All available via @projectmuse.bsky.social Open access articles listed in comments.

Michel Serres, Hermes III: Translation - trans. Randolph Burks, @uminnpress.bsky.social, February 2026 www.upress.umn.edu/978151790191...

Today's releases! -Ann Druyan's A Famous Broken Heart—now in PB! "A modern Alice in a literary wonderland." —Carl Sagan -Digital Theory with @mbfazi.bsky.social @leifw.bsky.social @3vilh0mer.bsky.social that proposes a powerful conception of the digital

Beneath Singapore’s hypermodern, financialized surface lies a city haunted by its own engines of accumulation. Our book of the week maps a “ghost economy” where ritual and geomancy shape the flows of finance and real estate. By Joshua Comaroff on @uminnpress.bsky.social buff.ly/qnJhr8B

For structuralism and LLMs, see Leif Weatherby's "Langauge Machines" @uminnpress.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151791932... For poststructuralism and LLMs, see my "The Différance Engine" "AI & Society" @springer.springernature.com doi.org/10.1007/s001...

Thanks to the inimitable @vickmickunas.bsky.social for the lovely conversation about @bethrooney.bsky.social's & my Leaf Town Forever, from @uminnpress.bsky.social, on the Book Nook on WYSO! www.wyso.org/podcast/book...

'Where Is My Sister?' by @shannongibney.bsky.social (May '26) added to the @teachingchange.bsky.social selection of kids books about grief. socialjusticebooks.org/booklists/gr...

Lots of good stuff including an intriguing new book from my friend Ryan Rodgers.

Don't miss out on @uminnpress.bsky.social's Spring & Summer 2026 catalogue!

U Minnesota Press's Spring 26 catalog, listing our new Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities (in Debates in DH series), eds. Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, @jamessmithies.bsky.social): z.umn.edu/spring26. Table of contents: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608... @uminnpress.bsky.social