Eric Lundgren
@eplundgren.bsky.social
fiction writer on the scholarly publishing beat, Minneapolis.
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That we just keep rolling along with pretending he's not manifestly non compos mentis will be studied by future generations as a kind of mass psychosis.
December 18, 2025 at 3:18 AM
That we just keep rolling along with pretending he's not manifestly non compos mentis will be studied by future generations as a kind of mass psychosis.
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It's ridiculously out of touch to treat "abolish ICE" as untouchable. This stuff is wildly unpopular! People hate them! It's an irredeemably rotten institutional culture of thuggery and criminality. Cutting this malignant tumor out altogether isn't just right on principle, it's a winning message.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM
It's ridiculously out of touch to treat "abolish ICE" as untouchable. This stuff is wildly unpopular! People hate them! It's an irredeemably rotten institutional culture of thuggery and criminality. Cutting this malignant tumor out altogether isn't just right on principle, it's a winning message.
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
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socialism is the only thing that is ultimately going to stop fascism
October 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
socialism is the only thing that is ultimately going to stop fascism
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Powerful sign at No Kings in Cleveland
October 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Powerful sign at No Kings in Cleveland
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Most Americans are genuinely good people, regardless of their political affiliation.
So when the White House says horrible things to make you hate your neighbor, the White House IS THE PROBLEM.
So when the White House says horrible things to make you hate your neighbor, the White House IS THE PROBLEM.
October 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Most Americans are genuinely good people, regardless of their political affiliation.
So when the White House says horrible things to make you hate your neighbor, the White House IS THE PROBLEM.
So when the White House says horrible things to make you hate your neighbor, the White House IS THE PROBLEM.
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László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025
László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025
The author was announced as winner at a ceremony in Stockholm
• Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’
The Nobel prize in literature for 2025 has been awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, the Swedish Academy has announced.
The Academy cited the 71-year-old’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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i hope the rapture is tomorrow bc i have mad deadlines
September 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
i hope the rapture is tomorrow bc i have mad deadlines
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This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.
Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman remembered as funny, savvy and 'a true leader'
Friends and colleagues remembered her as grounded, kind and compassionate.
www.pbs.org
September 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.
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The #HugoAward for Best Related Work goes to Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right, Jordan S. Carroll (University of Minnesota Press). “Insist that tomorrow belongs to everyone.”
August 17, 2025 at 5:05 AM
The #HugoAward for Best Related Work goes to Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right, Jordan S. Carroll (University of Minnesota Press). “Insist that tomorrow belongs to everyone.”
Almost complimented a stranger on her "antisocial & taciturn" T-shirt ... but then, thought better of it
August 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Almost complimented a stranger on her "antisocial & taciturn" T-shirt ... but then, thought better of it
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Famously, between the first and the second act of Waiting for Godot, the only difference in the stage set is that a previously bare tree ‘has four or five leaves’. So what’s the main note to self I found in this copy which seems to have belonged to a stage manager called Nigel...?
August 13, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Famously, between the first and the second act of Waiting for Godot, the only difference in the stage set is that a previously bare tree ‘has four or five leaves’. So what’s the main note to self I found in this copy which seems to have belonged to a stage manager called Nigel...?
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I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
July 16, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
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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 z.umn.edu/ump100.
Thank you for following us. 💯
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. 💯
July 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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. 💯
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. 💯
"We were a nation in thrall to our own stupidity. What passed for politics now was just dramaturgy. Sow conflict, promise consequence. Perhaps Plato wasn't wrong to warn us about a city overrun with storytellers."
--Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies
--Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies
July 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
"We were a nation in thrall to our own stupidity. What passed for politics now was just dramaturgy. Sow conflict, promise consequence. Perhaps Plato wasn't wrong to warn us about a city overrun with storytellers."
--Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies
--Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies
The wonderful John Leonard, in "Reading for My Life," on DeLillo's LIBRA:
"In Asia and the Middle East, in Latin America and in Dallas, *they* are writing our novel, our metafiction, and they are insane."
"In Asia and the Middle East, in Latin America and in Dallas, *they* are writing our novel, our metafiction, and they are insane."
July 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The wonderful John Leonard, in "Reading for My Life," on DeLillo's LIBRA:
"In Asia and the Middle East, in Latin America and in Dallas, *they* are writing our novel, our metafiction, and they are insane."
"In Asia and the Middle East, in Latin America and in Dallas, *they* are writing our novel, our metafiction, and they are insane."
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Fantastic works in translation are on sale: Manuela Draeger, Helene Uri, Stendhal, Balzac, and more.
Unlock $10 paperbacks on our site when you order 3 or more using code MN93820. Expires July 1st.
www.upress.umn.edu/special-sale...
Unlock $10 paperbacks on our site when you order 3 or more using code MN93820. Expires July 1st.
www.upress.umn.edu/special-sale...
June 27, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Fantastic works in translation are on sale: Manuela Draeger, Helene Uri, Stendhal, Balzac, and more.
Unlock $10 paperbacks on our site when you order 3 or more using code MN93820. Expires July 1st.
www.upress.umn.edu/special-sale...
Unlock $10 paperbacks on our site when you order 3 or more using code MN93820. Expires July 1st.
www.upress.umn.edu/special-sale...
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Quinn Slobodian’s excellent new book on the socio-economic darwinism of the hard-right helps explain our chainsaw-capitalist moment.
Book Review: ‘Hayek’s Bastards,’ by Quinn Slobodian (Gift Article)
A new book by the historian Quinn Slobodian examines right-wing figures who have positioned themselves as populist critics of neoliberalism while weaponizing some of its founders’ ideas.
www.nytimes.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Quinn Slobodian’s excellent new book on the socio-economic darwinism of the hard-right helps explain our chainsaw-capitalist moment.
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NEH & IMLS funded the $40K grant that we turned into a $3M Mellon grant that introduced 100s of faculty and 1000s of students at minority serving institutions to digital humanities. If I never did anything else professionally, I would be entirely satisfied with my career because of that. 💔
April 1, 2025 at 3:25 AM
NEH & IMLS funded the $40K grant that we turned into a $3M Mellon grant that introduced 100s of faculty and 1000s of students at minority serving institutions to digital humanities. If I never did anything else professionally, I would be entirely satisfied with my career because of that. 💔
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When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.
March 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.
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I am working out of a public library and there are a good number of people who seem to be on hard times using the facilities for various reasons like job searching, entertainment, charging peripherals, using the bathroom, etc., and I am struck by how important it is that libraries continue to exist
March 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I am working out of a public library and there are a good number of people who seem to be on hard times using the facilities for various reasons like job searching, entertainment, charging peripherals, using the bathroom, etc., and I am struck by how important it is that libraries continue to exist
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In 1942, the American President opposed censorship because books were weapons in the fight against tyranny.
March 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
In 1942, the American President opposed censorship because books were weapons in the fight against tyranny.