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University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress· 19d

➡️ One more day to enter our galley giveaway for Jay Weiner's A MORE DANGEROUS GAME: How a Young Sportswriter Met Patty Hearst and Landed in Federal Prison. www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Book cover for A More Dangerous Game: How a Young Sportswriter Met Patty Hearst and Landed in Federal Prison by Jay Weiner. Image collage featuring young Jay Weiner's press ID, crime-scene fingerprints, a baseball bat, and Patty Hearst holding a rifle beneath the title in large cutout-style lettering.

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress· 21d

New books! Out today! -Perspectives on the Human Genome Project and Genomics, Christopher R. Donohue and Alan C. Love, eds. -Digital Animalities: Mediating Life in an Age of Planetary Domestication, Judy Berland and Thomas Lamarre, eds. -Now in PB: Minnesota's Geologist by Sue Leaf

Book cover for Perspectives on the Human Genome Porject and Genomics, edited by Christopher R. Donohue and Alan C. Love. Series design with the title in white band on a blue-stained background. Series title at bottom beneath a graphic of two connected question marks.

Book cover for Digital Animalities: Mediating Life in an Age of Planetary Domestication, edited by Judy Berland and Thomas Lamarre. Large pink seahorse, digitally rendered, on blue background. Title in large thin type across image. Editors’ names above, subtitle below.

Book cover for Minnesota's Geologist: The Life of Newton Horace Winchell by Sue Leaf. Historic illustration of wooded cliffs against rough waters. Title in band across center. Oval photo of bearded man above right. Title to its left.

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress· 25d

Two new journal issues: -Buildings & Landscapes 33.1. -Wicazo Sa Review 41.1-2: Indigeneity & Disability Guest Editor: Sandra Yellowhorse Free Article by Melanie McKay Cody: muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic... Journals available on @projectmuse.bsky.social

A large, stylized image of feathers is washed with a green tint. The journal title "Wicazo Sa Review" is overlaid on top.

The journal title "Buildings & Landscapes" is arranged vertically and horizontally in the shape of a plus. It is placed between two women sitting in chairs and reading in an enclosed courtyard, while other women sit or stand nearby.

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress· 28d

Today's beautiful new releases! -Sea Salt Eatery cookbook—launch tomorrow, Moon Palace Books, 7pm! -Cary Wolfe's Jagged Ontologies—latest in the Posthumanities series -Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions, eds. Elizabeth de Freitas, Matthew X. Curinga, Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román, P. Taylor Webb

Book cover for Sea Salt Eatery: Recipes to Enjoy Year-Round by Gail Rosenblum and Kait Ziemer-Davis. Close-up image of freshly grilled seafood next to a blue-tinted portrait of the restaurant.

Book cover for Jagged Ontologies by Cary Wolfe. Image of a leafless forest. At center a donut shape portion is inverted so the sky is below the land. Title above and author below in white bands.

Book cover for Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions, edited by Elizabeth de Freitas, Matthew X. Curinga, Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román, and P. Taylor Webb. Faceless dark, blurry figure overlays a background of clouds and interference. Title in black block letters at top.

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress· 29d

Seafood and the story of Sea Salt: Gail Rosenblum and Kait Ziemer-Davis present the new Sea Salt Eatery cookbook at Moon Palace Books (Mpls) this Weds 7/15! moonpalacebooks.com/events/50759...

Against textured blue background, images of book cover and authors surrounded by text: Moon Palace Books presents Gail Rosenblum and Kait Ziemer-Davis, Wed 7/15 @ 7:00pm. At right, authors pose in front of Sea Salt Eatery's exterior. At left, book cover: Close-up image of freshly grilled seafood next to a blue-tinted portrait of the restaurant.

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress· Jul 7

Out today: A timely critique of the growing agency of tech platforms in determining the future of urban space. "A truly compelling investigation of the physical and spatial manifestations of the digital economy." —Dietmar Offenhuber GROUNDING THE CLOUD by Ali Fard

Book cover for Grounding the Cloud: Urbanism in the Shadow of Data by Ali Fard. A large, gray data center looms behind three brick houses in a suburban neighborhood, green with trees and manicured lawns. Text in white on top.

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress· Jul 1

Come along and read on a fantastic voyage! Go chase waterfalls, dream of Californication, slide slide slippity-slide with our summertime reading list—even if you're only happy when it rains. www.upress.umn.edu/90s-playlist...

Glitchy analog multi-colored neon background; pixelated flowers in yellow, red, and blue underneath; pink cassette tape with "'90s Playlist" label; above, headline: Summer, Summer, Summertime: A Reading Guide.

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress· Jun 23

Rolling out three releases today! -Kevin L. Clay's I Guess This Is Activism? -William D. Green's Strike! -Michael Schumacher's Too Much Sea for Their Decks, now in paperback @kevinlclay.bsky.social

Book cover for I Guess This Is Activism?: Youth, Political Education, and Free-Market Common Sense by Kevin L. Clay. Title in bold white type with red question mark. Subtitle in smaller blue. All title lines are tilted left and right. Author at baseline at bottom.

Book cover for Strike!: Twenty Days in 1970 When Minneapolis Teachers Broke the Law by William D. Green. In the background, a black and white image of children sitting in front of a brick building playing on the ground, an adult carrying a picket sign "On Strike: AFT Local 59 AFL-CIO", and another adult with a news camera in the background. Title in yellow serif font across middle, with subtitle and author below.

Book cover for Too Much Sea for Their Decks: Shipwrecks of Minnesota's North Shore and Isle Royale by Michael Schumacher. Title and subtitle separated by drawn waves; below an image of the George M. Cox run aground on the Rock of Ages Reef.

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress· Jun 18

Book sale: New translations of Nordic history, folklore, short fiction, and more are 30% off through July 1st. www.upress.umn.edu/book-sale-sc...

Collage of cropped book covers including Out of the Darkness: Classic Short Fiction from Sweden, edited by Vendela Vida, David Katznelson, and Ulf Olsson, and The Home of the Drowned by Elin Anna Labba, translated by Elizabeth Clark Wessel.

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress· Jun 17

Nonfiction and fiction, stories and histories so crucial to why we honor and celebrate Pride. Browse the Pride Month collection, now 30% off: www.upress.umn.edu/collection-p...

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet book covers displayed against drippy rainbow background with text below: Collection: Pride Month. Covers featured for Ungendering Menstruation; Skating Away from the Binary; Trans Care; Making Love with the Land; Beyond Personhood; Nonbinary Jane Austen.

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress· Jun 16

Happy #PubDay to Branka Arsić's AMBIENT LIFE, a bold reimagining of Herman Melville’s writing through the lens of ecology; "a book full of marvels" —Lloyd Pratt. www.upress.umn.edu/978151792086...

Book cover for Ambient Life: Melville and the Ethereal Enlightenment by Branka Arsić. Sculpted globe off kilter on shoreline and erupting with an outpouring of a large tangle of copper wire. Title and author above in blue and orange.

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress· Jun 3

Two new journal issues: -Cultural Critique 131. -The Moving Image 24.1-2: Government Film. Guest Editor: Brian Real. Free article: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55216 Journals available on @projectmuse.bsky.social @culturalcritique.bsky.social @nfazio.bsky.social

"Cultural Critique" is written in all capital letters running off the edges of the cover, and the number 131 appears below it. The letter "C" in the title, and a large stripe below it where the year and season of publication are written, are yellow.

"The Moving Image" is written repeating across the width of the cover, running off the cover edges. Repeated twice in the background of the cover is a yellow world map showing a drawing of a film reel with strips of film stretching out across the world.

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress· Jun 2

Could peatlands combat global warming? In parts a travelogue, an ecological history, and a call to action, Jennifer de Mooy's forthcoming book explores peatlands in all their richness and mystery. www.upress.umn.edu/978151792139... #WorldPeatlandsDay

Book cover for Water, Carbon, Time: Exploring Peatlands in a Warming World by Jennifer de Mooy. Title and author names in white against an aerial view of a peatland, with green evergreens at top and a mire with red and brown hues below.

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress· Jun 2

Two new books out in the world! #PubDay The Home of the Drowned, a novel by int'l prize-winner Elin Anna Labba, translated by Elizabeth Clark Wessel. Natural Lection: Cultures of Evolution by @jonothingeb.bsky.social opens a novel terrain of scientific and political possibility.

Book cover for The Home of the Drowned: A Novel by Elin Anna Labba, translated by Elizabeth Clark Wessel. An illustration of a blue lake surrounded by mountains under a red sky and yellow sun. A white hare jumps in the foreground. Text in black and gold.

Book cover for Natural Lection: Cultures of Evolution by Jonathan Basile. White background with a drawing of a macaque reading a book in its hands while sitting on top of the large black title letters.

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress· May 28

📣 Exciting forthcoming books await! 50+ titles in our Fall/Winter catalog: Essays, memoir, environment, activism, fiction, nonfiction—and so many amazing voices! (more in comments) z.umn.edu/fw26

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress· May 26

Big PUB DAY today! -Where Is My Sister? by @shannongibney.bsky.social -Out of the Darkness, a collection of Swedish fiction ed. by Vendela Vida, David Katznelson, and Ulf Olsson -Sámi Folktales from the Near and Far Worlds, collected by Just Knud Qvigstad and Isak Saba, transl. by Barbara Sjoholm

Book cover for Where Is My Sister? by Shannon Gibney, illustrations by Huy Voun Lee. A watercolor of a young person in a pink dress lying in a green, flowering field reaching out to touch a monarch while holding a yellow flower.

Book cover for Out of the Darkness: Classic Short FIction from Sweden, edited by Vendela Vida, David Katznelson, and Ulf Olsson. Painting of barren woods at dusk with one string of colored lights strung between three trees surrounded by title and author on field of light blue.

Book cover for Sámi Folktales from the Near and Far Worlds, collected by Just Knud Qvigstad and Isak Saba and translated by Barbara Sjoholm. Autumn scrubland with rocks and crags and clouded mountains in distance. Border of geometric design in white. Title in sky and authors at bottom.

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress· May 19

Three new books out today! -The 3rd book in Mary Logue's Brigid Reardon Mystery series is set in Salt Lake City, 1881. -A visionary reckoning with prophecy, possession, and the grammar of liberation by Reid Gómez. -A manifesto on political masochism by Steven Swarbrick in our Forerunners series.

Book cover for A Wasp in the Beehive: A Brigid Reardon Mystery by Mary Logue. Nineteenth-century photograph in orange and brown tones of commercial buildings along a dirt street in a western, mountain town. Title in sky above.

Book cover for The Web of Differing Visions: Where Africa Ends and America Begins by Reid Gómez. Complex layered image of foliage and trees in background. Title and author at top and bottom in large lavender letters; subtitle in center in gold.

Book cover for Divest: An Essay on Political Masochism by Steven Swarbrick. Coral color background with pea-green and white sans-serif font and Forerunners series detail element at lower right corner.

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress· May 8

Three new journal issues: -Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) 13.1 -Markers 41 -International Journal of Surrealism (IJS) 3.2 Available on @projectmuse.bsky.social - links and free articles in comments.

The letters "N," "A," "I," and "S" appear in the corners of the cover written in red. In the middle of the letters is a photograph of a group of people; some of the people are holding an inverted Canadian flag with the phrase "Reconciliation is Dead" written in black paint.

The journal title "Markers" appears at the top of the cover on a green stripe with a rounded edge. Beneath it is a faded, sepia-toned photograph of a group of men in hats standing in a road surrounded by cypress trees, rocks, fences, and gravestones.

eneath "The International Journal of Surrealism" are stylized purple and yellow motifs of eyes. Next to the eye motifs is a surreal painting showing a giant floating yellow egg above a purple maze and a seashore.

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress· May 5

📢 Pub Day! Building a New Table: A Community-Centered Handbook for Transformative Social Change by Dr. Brittany Lewis, founder and CEO of Research in Action, is now available. Minneapolis launch tonight: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

Outdoors on a sunny day, Dr. Brittany Lewis stands on a road surrounded by trees wearing a colorful floral dress, arms folded.

Book cover for Building a New Table: A Community-Centered Handbook for Transformative Social Change by Brittany Lewis, PhD. Title in large blue lettering against a grain-textured background with a drawing at bottom of people holding hands in two concentric circles.

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress· May 5

Thrilled to say two poets recognized by the 2026 Pulitzer Prize committee have appeared in collections of ours: Poetry winner Juliana Spahr in Creature Needs, and finalist Douglas Kearney in We Are Meant to Rise. www.upress.umn.edu/awards/

Book cover for Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation. Blocky title text shows above a composite image of a plucky turtle surfacing in water, supporting a small set of plants and animals alive on its shell.

Book cover for We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World. Thick black typographic treatment for title, which covers most of the layout; a light blue behind the title; and below, covering the bottom 1/3, orange background overlaid with upside-down silhouette of Minneapolis skyline.

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress· May 4

The MN Book Awards ceremony is this week! 5 of ours are finalists! 🙌 -House on Rondo (Middle Grade Lit) -Lucky Tomorrow (Short Story) -What Doesn't Kill Me Makes Me Weirder and Harder to Relate To (Memoir) -Gentlemen of the Woods (Nonfiction) -Her Place in the Woods (MN Nonfiction)

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress· Apr 29

"This study brings French queer film studies into view in an entertaining writing style, even with its complex network of theories." Thank you, BAFTSS, and congrats on winning Best First Monograph, @julesod.bsky.social ! www.baftss.org/winners-pub-...

Book cover of The Seduction of Space: Cruising French Cinema by Jules O'Dwyer. Film still of theater interior with sparse patrons watching a person before a white screen. Around still is white text on purple field.

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress· Apr 28

Today's scholarly releases: Murderous Feeling: Examining revenge narratives as a feminist response to slavery and settler colonialism by Chad Benito Infante Vector Media: Dispelling the notion of “generative” AI. Authors: Leonardo Impett and Fabian Offert; intro by Johanna Drucker

Book cover for Murderous Feeling: Gender and Retribution in Black and Indigenous Literature by Chad Benito Infante. Lush plant leaves, awash in the colors of the visible spectrum, on black. Text in bold white on top in alternating fonts: one sharp, one curvy.

Book cover for Vector Media by Leonardo Impett and Fabian Offert with introduction by Johanna Drucker. Dark clouds, over which are subtle geometric shapes. Title and author names in black type in white boxes.

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress· Apr 28

New children's book out today: NORTHWOODS LULLABY, a picture book featuring a springtime stroll and a heartwarming bedtime lullaby by Mary Casanova and Jordan Sundberg (the music track by Chris Koza is on our website!) www.upress.umn.edu/978151791561...

Book cover for Northwoods Lullaby by Mary Casanova with illustrations by Jordan Sundberg. Seen from behind, two hooded figures, depicted as fabric cutouts, sit on a rock and look toward a watercolor sunset behind forested green hills.

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress· Apr 28

"Why didn't I know more about her? There were no other architects like her." Jane King Hession talks with @mprnews.org about Minnesota's first Modern architect, Elizabeth “Lisl” Scheu Close. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Book cover for Elizabeth Scheu Close: A Life in Modern Architecture by Jane King Hession. Woman pointing at architectural model upper left. Title in red square to the right. Modernist house in woods, lower right. Author in blue field to left.

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress· Apr 23

Happy birthday to Cornbread Harris, who turns 99 today! The birthday party continues with a second show 4/25 after the 1st sold out: app.opendate.io/e/cornbread-... #DeeperBlues @slingshotannie.bsky.social

At left, pose with Cornbread Harris, seated, and Andrea Swensson, standing. At right, book cover crop from Deeper Blues: The Life, Songs, and Salvation of Cornbread Harris by Andrea Swensson, Afterword by Jimmy Jam. (Blue-toned image of Cornbread Harris looking out directly at the reader. Title in blue and white to the right.) At bottom, black strip with white all-caps: HAPPY 99TH TO CORNBREAD HARRIS!

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress· Apr 23

We are excited to be at @startribune.com 's Strib Unbound at Theodore Wirth Park Trailhead on May 9th! Check out the 10am storytime with Mary Casanova & grab a few books! www.startribunecompany.com/services/str...

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress· Apr 22

New books released this week! -Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: A call to remake our world through a new politics of disabled kin-making by @kellyfritsch.bsky.social and @anneemcguire.bsky.social -Two now in paperback: Beautiful MN biographies on architect Elizabeth Scheu Close and judge Miles Lord

Book cover for Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival by Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire. Against a white background, drawing of a plant with leaves of printed images of soil, water, wiring, and microscopy. Birds and a bee fly away.

Book cover for Miles Lord: The Maverick Judge Who Brought Corporate America to Justice by Roberta Walburn. Large black-and-white photo of man in judge’s robes before the Great Seal of the US. Title in large yellow letters across chest, subtitle in white below.

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress· Apr 22

Happy Earth Day! Browse our beautiful books collection: www.upress.umn.edu/earth-day-co...

Background of lichen in blue, green, and red hues. Black strip across center with sans-serif font: Earth Day books collection.

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress· Apr 14

Three new books out today! -On Life Support by Matthew I Thompson: Soylent Green & other '70s eco-dystopian cinema -Asian Girlhood in the Shadows of US Empire by Sharon N. Tran: How the "Asian girl" is central to US imperialism -Robie House: A lavish guide to the Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece