Slim’s "critiques of inequality, state violence, and the manipulation of truth resonate powerfully, reminding us that the struggles of the early twentieth century are far from resolved." newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/owen-clayton...

In this collection of essays that I edited recently (it came out June 2025 with @uminnpress.bsky.social), we took a stab at rethinking the politics of aesthetics and the aesthetics of politics from a variety of angles, from Silicon Valley to nuclear waste disposal

I’m so grateful to the people who invented coffee.

Alex Menrisky on why his new book is titled "Everyday Ecofascism," or the ways that ecofascism is not solely a far-right governmental structure but a genre, a mode of storytelling. asleecocast.podbean.com/e/expanding-...

Listen up! Becca Monteleone talks about the intersection of disability and technology soundcloud.com/thismachinek...

A book launch in Pilsen, Chicago, Saturday. @uminnpress.bsky.social

📚✨Books for them, books for you: Our holiday sale is on! z.umn.edu/readmn25

"If you want to be an ally and understand Indigenous culture, think about the land you're standing on." A fantastic watch: Sean Sherman on The Daily Show, talking his new cookbook Turtle Island (& not to mention its precursor, The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2yp...

Drooling over the @ebbooksellers.bsky.social holiday catalog! So many goodies here (including several of ours!) simplebooklet.com/holiday-cata...

It’s the last day to visit @uminnpress.bsky.social at American Studies #2025ASA #ASA2025, but you can still visit our books online and take advantage of our sale at z.umn.edu/amst25

Explore Mark Minch-de Leon’s Indigenous Inhumanities, on reclaiming power and prophecy through California Indian intellectual resurgence and anticolonial resistance #2025ASA #ASA2025

Dive into Brian Bartell’s On the Eve of the Cybercultural Revolution on the Black Power movement’s contributions to theorizing the politics of automation #2025ASA #ASA2025

Don’t miss Joanna Hearne and Karrmen Crey’s By Their Work, a first-of-its-kind collection to transform our understanding of digital media from Indigenous women creators on Star Trek’s twenty-first century reinventions #2025ASA #ASA2025

Ram's Rambles on Speculative Whiteness

Check out The Popular Wobbly: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim, ed by Owen Clayton & Iain McIntyre, foreword by David R. Roediger. It’s the first critical edition of the writings of the prolific radical workers’ newspaper columnist & musician, T-Bone Slim #2025ASA #ASA2025

It’s day 2 in the book exhibit at ASA! Stop by and see us @uminnpress.bsky.social or check out our online exhibit at z.umn.edu/amst25 for 30% off! #2025ASA #ASA2025

🎧 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

Cruise by the Minnesota booth at ASA and check out Rebecca Monteleone’s The Double Bind of Disability, a bold new study exposing the ableism underlying medical innovation #2025ASA #ASA2025

Come see Mixed-Blood Histories by Jameson R. Sweet at ASA or online at z.umn.edu/amst25 #2025ASA #ASA2025

Don’t miss Eric A. Vázquez’s States of Defeat at ASA! Read about the cultural reverberations of Central America’s failed revolutions on US intellectual thought #2025ASA #ASA2025

Get 30% off American Studies books at z.umn.edu/amst25! #2025ASA #ASA2025

Hey, ASA! Check out KJ Cerankowski’s Nothing Wanting: advancing asexuality studies in new, queer directions—beyond identity and beyond the human #2025ASA #ASA2025

Our Forerunners series of print and digital publications are all under 30K words and booksellers and educators love them. manifold.umn.edu/projects/pro...

Free UMP book! If you’re at ASA, get it.

Good morning, ASA! Stop by the Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social booth today to check out new American Studies books and sign up for our newsletter to get a free book! #2025ASA #ASA2025

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.)

"Bring back the spirit of T-Bone Slim!" www.fifthestate.org/archive/417-...

Happy pub day to our newest Forerunner: Grant Farred's The Prettiest Woman! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791832...

Eric A. Vázquez's States of Defeat is out now! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791990...

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

Very excited to see Rebecca Monteleone's The Double Bind of Disability out today! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791768...

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

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

"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."

Listen up!

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!

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

oh hey — Speculative Whiteness has been reviewed in Science Fiction Film and Television!

Honk if you love UPs #UPWeek

I'm obsessed with this stat: "with more than 4,000 degree-granting institutions and fewer than 130 university presses in the United States and Canada, this vital [publishing] infrastructure is directly supported by less than 3 percent of the institutions it benefits"

I'm back from Texas and so excited that KJ Cerankowski's Nothing Wanting is out! Moving beyond identity and representation, Nothing Wanting is playful, fascinating, and provocative as it conceives asexuality as additive and expansive rather than lacking. www.upress.umn.edu/978151791643...

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

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!

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

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

FYI1: The superb webinar "Turning your Dissertation into a Book" is up! FYI2: It's the 1st for "Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series" co-sponsored by @aupresses.bsky.social (HT, Faculty Outreach Committee) and hosted by Rutgers CMSI. #ReadUP #PublishUP www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SST...

Our fearless leader, retiring after 27 years at the helm of the University of Minnesota Press. Doug Armato's editorial adventurousness was based on a forward-thinking approach to the business of books. He's shaped the press, and university press publishing, in profound ways.

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

For the first time in years, I woke up in my home state of Texas and had breakfast tacos

*very* excited about @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social’s new book, out next year w/ @uminnpress.bsky.social 🤖 🚫 www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773...