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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · Jul 16
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 z.umn.edu/ump100.
Thank you for following us. 💯
A black background with, at top, a photo of a few dozen University of Minnesota Press staff in the office building's glass-walled atrium; in middle, a special 100th Press logo; at bottom, two black and white images side by side: (1 at left) The sales department in 1947. L to R: Evelyn Munro; Renee Groth Smith; Mrs. DeVries; Mrs. Irma Koefod; Mrs. Zita M. Greb; Mrs. Charlotte Jones; Minnie Matsuura. (2, at right) Press book exhibit, late 1930s, a poster with header The University of Minnesota Press Reflects the Life of City State World.
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“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...
Kao Kalia Yang gives voice to Hmong experience at the Ordway
Things to do in the Twin Cities this weekend: Kao Kalia Yang reads her children’s books at the Ordway; the Guthrie stages a West Side Story-inspired play; and two exhibits put the American dream under...
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December 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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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.”
The art of movidas: New book looks at how Minnesota Latina/x artists resist oppression
A new book traces a decade of Latina/x arts activism in the Twin Cities, revealing the artists who have been quietly safeguarding their communities and reshaping the region’s cultural future.
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December 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Jessica Lopez Lyman’s debut book uncovers the artists, spaces and performances keeping Twin Cities Latina/x culture alive

By Myah Goff
‘Peace-Keepers’ traces Latina/x art and activism in the Twin Cities
University of Minnesota assistant professor of Chicano and Latino Studies Jessica Lopez Lyman’s debut book “Place-Keepers: Latina/x Art, Performance, and Organizing in the Twin Cities” examines how ar...
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December 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Loving this, loving them all & especially loving the appearance of The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige (in the middle!)
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The 173 Best Book Covers of 2025
Per Literary Hub tradition, I am pleased to present the best book covers of the year—as chosen by some of the industry’s best book cover designers. This year, I asked 52 designers to share their fa…
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December 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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✨✨ 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...
Packed theater room facing lit-up stage, with dark blue ceiling and projected stars. Mary Lucia and Lizz Winstead face each other on cozy stage set with blue velvet furniture, a vintage glowy lamp between them, projection of Mary's book behind them. Mary Lucia sits at a table in front of cozy stage set, signing a copy of her book, sitting next to a large tabletop poster of book's cover. Cover image: Polaroid of person in black blouse with red flower and a pug mask, holding a flamenco pose. Background rough green surface. Title above, author below.
December 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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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?”
December 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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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.
Two DJs stalked by the same listener. Is a life of terror the price of being in the public eye?
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.
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December 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Best 📚 since last 📚

(Even better than usual this week...)

#PubLibs
#FridayReads
#Booksky
Cover of the book "Bloom" by Delilah S. Dawson Cover of the book "What doesn't kill me it makes me ruder and harder to relate to" by Mary Lucia Cover of the book "Book of lives" by Margaret Atwood Cover of the book "Bread of Angels" by Patti Smith
December 6, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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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:

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December 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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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.
Cover for International Journal of Surrealism 3.1 with the journal's title and stylized pink graphics of eyes. A close-up photograph of a flesh-like, bruised textile is shown. Cover for Swedish-American Studies 76. The journal's title is written in red. Below it is a monochromatic photo of a group of identically uniformed women standing while holding candles.
December 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Michel Serres, Hermes III: Translation - trans. Randolph Burks, @uminnpress.bsky.social, February 2026
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Hermes III
Unlocking the hidden patterns of knowledge—where science, art, and philosophy speak a common languageHermes III: Translation is the third volume in Michel ...
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December 10, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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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
​Book cover for A Famous Broken Heart: A Fantasy Novel by Ann Druyan, now in paperback. Shapes of birds and a classical bust show as paper cutouts, displaying snippets of text from book pages, against a teal background. Book cover for Digital Theory by M. Beatrice Fazi, Alexander R. Galloway, Matthew Handelman, and Leif Weatherby. Close-up view of fern fronds filtered so as to appear purple. Title and author names in individual blocks with black text and white filling.
December 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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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

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December 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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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
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December 8, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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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...
Kathleen Rooney's 'Leaf Town Forever,' pandemic-inspired picture book
Sisters Kathleen and Beth Rooney discuss their new picture book inspired by children who built an imaginary town from fallen leaves during the pandemic.
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December 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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'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...
Grief - Social Justice Books
Titles that we recommend are featured below. The ones with reviews are noted with an asterisk (*). Some titles are recommended with a caveat. Elementary | Middle School | Young Adult / Adult Elementar...
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December 5, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Lots of good stuff including an intriguing new book from my friend Ryan Rodgers.
A book cover for "Where the Green Light Shines" by Ryan Rodgers, with two people in a red canoe on a smooth lake with an obscured horizon
December 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Don't miss out on @uminnpress.bsky.social's Spring & Summer 2026 catalogue!
fiveoclockbot.bsky.social Jason Weidemann @fiveoclockbot.bsky.social · 10d
On this snowy December morning, spend some time imagining the world to come.

Our Spring/Summer 2026 list has arrived.

www.upress.umn.edu/spring-summe...
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December 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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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
Screenshot of page 52 University of Minnesota Press Spring 2026 catalog, showing the book cover, description, and contributor names of the new book in the Debates in DH series (ed. Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies) titled _Critical Infrastructrure Studies and Digital Humanities_. The text of the description reads as follows: How digital humanities can shape and be shaped by the infrastructures that sustain our world. _Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities_ reimagines the digital humanities (DH) through the expanding field of critical infrastructure studies. Featuring voices from around the globe, this volume explores how DH builds on and extends theories and technologies of infrastructure that affect society, culture, and knowledge in different national and regional contexts. Examining DH’s own infrastructural genealogy, the contributors offer readers critical reflections and bold visions for the future as they address issues of environmentalism, decolonization, Indigenous sovereignty, multilingualism, labor justice, feminism, national development, and beyond from a variety of disciplinary perspectives embedded in concrete digital systems. Including innovative “infrastructure manifests,” the essays in this book illuminate how DH can both study and shape the systems that sustain culture, scholarship, and connection....
December 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Keep an eye out for a new book by me early next year!
A monkey reading a book, over the title Natural Lection: Cultures of Evolution by Jonathan Basile
December 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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So thrilled to have my new book FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING included in @uminnpress.bsky.social's Spring 2026 catalogue!! 🙏🏻
uminnpress.bsky.social University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · 11d
📢 Early 2026 releases await! Fascinating fiction, children's books, scholarly titles, MN writers, translations. Thrilled to feature @danhf.bsky.social @lnakamura.bsky.social @lhertzel.bsky.social @shannongibney.bsky.social @timcresswell.bsky.social @alanyliu.bsky.social & more!

z.umn.edu/ss26
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December 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
uminnpress.bsky.social
📢 Early 2026 releases await! Fascinating fiction, children's books, scholarly titles, MN writers, translations. Thrilled to feature @danhf.bsky.social @lnakamura.bsky.social @lhertzel.bsky.social @shannongibney.bsky.social @timcresswell.bsky.social @alanyliu.bsky.social & more!

z.umn.edu/ss26
Black-and-white image of several sets of human hands, fingers out, forming a circle on top of paper pages, some with rings, some pinching page edges, with some color detail on some polished finger nails in pink, green, blue. In the middle, all-caps sans-serif white font: Spring & Summer Titles. Above, diagonally cutting across, in all-caps serif font: University of Minnesota Press. Below: 2026. At bottom right, vertical University of Minnesota Press logo.
December 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Was super lovely to chat with @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social and @bethrooney.bsky.social about their absolutely warm and wonderful children's book LEAF TOWN FOREVER (@uminnpress.bsky.social).
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How Kathleen and Beth Rooney Conceived Their New Picture Book, “Leaf Town Forever”
Written in thirty-two haikus, the book is about a band of kids who dream about creating a town that could last forever.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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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
Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination
Igniting political power through the lens of art and the imaginationPostpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination investigates the erosion of meaningful politic...
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December 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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🐝🐝🐝 A new Brigid Reardon Mystery installment forthcoming this spring from Mary Logue: www.youtube.com/watch?v=czHk...
Book preview: A Wasp in the Beehive
YouTube video by UMinnPress
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December 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM