University of Minnesota Press

08/27/2024

Two amazing books releasing today!

-Deepwater Alchemy: Extractive Mediation and the Taming of the Seafloor by Lisa Yin Han.
"An essential contribution to the watery depths of the blue humanities." —Jennifer Gabrys

🎧: New podcast episode: Lisa Yin Han and Jordan B. Kinder with Thomas Pringle talking extractive mediation, from the deep sea to oil culture: https://share.transistor.fm/s/53b648f6

-Now in paperback: Ashley Shelby's South Pole Station!
"Crackles with energy." —The Washington Post
"Lovely, satirical, and emotionally complex." —LitHub
"Pithy and funny." —NPR

08/25/2024

On Friday, Aug. 16, many music legends gathered at the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis to celebrate the release of ‘Deeper Blues: The Life, Songs, and Salvation of Cornbread Harris’ by Andrea Swensson.

08/20/2024

08/13/2024

Huge today! Four new releases:

-Chris Marker: Early Film Writings. Formative early writings (1948 to 1955) by the avant-garde French filmmaker known for La Jetée.

🎧 Listen: Translator Sally Shafto and editor Steve Ungar join Jean-Michel Frodon and Sam Di Iorio in conversation on the UMP podcast: https://z.umn.edu/ep84

-Deeper Blues: The Life, Songs, and Salvation of Cornbread Harris by Andrea Swensson with afterword by Jimmy Jam. The epic story of one of Minneapolis's most influential musicians.

"Deeper Blues is a reminder that love and music are divine uniting forces that continue to heal us."
—Terry Lewis

-Imperial Policing: Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago. Exposing the carceral webs and weaponized data that shape Chicago's police wars. Download a toolkit: https://z.umn.edu/9plx

"The Policing in Chicago Research Group exemplifies how abolitionist practitioners can and must strive to create autonomous collective approaches to research and praxis. Chapter by chapter, this book radically deepens abolitionist analyses of U.S. domestic warfare, reminding us once again that to police Chicago is to police the world (and vice versa)."
—Dylan Rodríguez

-Movies under the Influence. A cultural history of the enduring relationship between film spectatorship and intoxicating substances, by Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece.

"Eminently readable and brimming with amusing anecdotes."
—Caetlin Benson-Allott

08/09/2024

Happy Day on the occasion of 's birthday! We are the proud publisher of two translated works by Tove Jansson. 💛🧡

These and other beautiful translations now on sale via our collection: https://www.upress.umn.edu/special-sale-women-in-translation-month/

08/09/2024

08/01/2024

A review of MEVLIDO'S DREAMS by Antoine Volodine, translated by Gina Stamm, in the latest Times Literary Supplement!

https://www.facebook.com/reel/877928964192004

07/31/2024

The “Great Replacement” narrative, which imagines that historic white majorities are being intentionally replaced through immigration policies crafted by global elites, has effectively mobilized racist, nationalist, and nativist movements in the United States and Europe. THE RAGE OF REPLACEMENT by Michael Feola, which is now available, tracks how this narrative has shaped the politics and worldview of the far right and makes clear that replacement theory poses a dire threat to democracy and safety.

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"Michael Feola brilliantly captures the sweeping scope of contemporary far right rage and its horrific consequences in conspiratorial, racist terrorism—and rightly situates that violence in the toxic mix of entitled resentment and fear of displacement that mobilizes it. Comprehensive, incisive, and original."
—Cynthia Miller-Idriss

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"Michael Feola aims not simply to pathologize, but to demonstrate how this psychic structure generates the potent and dangerous antidemocratic political visions with which we are confronted right now. Essential reading."
—Joseph Lowndes

More info: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517916800/the-rage-of-replacement/

07/30/2024

"Maybe we do listen but don’t understand." Ashley Shelby in Literary Hub on writing with climate grief:

This piece includes references to su***de. Grief has no language. It is built from the debris of the shattered connection that created it, and it is powered by our understanding of finality. Becau…

07/24/2024

Thrilled at this week's news that Petra Kuppers has received awards from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education: Visionary Trailblazer and Outstanding Book with Distinction for Innovative Achievement. This is the 6th institution to recognize this book with an award.

🎧 LISTEN: Petra Kuppers interview with Giovanni Aloi and Caroline Picard on the UMN Press podcast. An excellent conversation that also makes a great teaching tool for courses: z.umn.edu/ep35.
(Available on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and most places podcasts are distributed.)

07/16/2024

Today's beautiful new releases:

-Anishinaabe Songs for a New Millennium by Marcie Rendon. Poem-songs summon Anishinaabe ancestors and sing to future generations. "Everyone, everywhere needs to spend time with this book and find their own way to sing along with it or sit quietly and listen deeply to its songs." —Bao Phi

-F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Composite Biography edited by Niklas Salmose and David Rennie. A comprehensive study of the life of the Jazz Age author, related in two-year chapters by 23 leading Fitzgerald writers.

07/15/2024

This we are spending time in the garden with Perennial Ceremony: Lessons and Gifts From a Dakota Garden by Teresa R. Peterson. It’s a beautiful collection of poetry, prose and recipes published by University of Minnesota Press

07/12/2024

: In this Moon Palace Books event in Minneapolis celebrating Taiyon J. Coleman’s debut essay collection, Traveling Without Moving: Essays From a Black Woman Trying to Survive in America (University of Minnesota Press, 2024), which is featured in Page One in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, the author reads with fellow Chicagoan writers April Gibson and Lester A. Batiste. at.pw.org/TaiyonColeman

07/11/2024

El Museo del Barrio presents Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory, the first retrospective exhibition by the pioneering artist, curator, and theorist.

07/08/2024

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Ashley Shelby has a new book out! Honeymoons in Temporary Locations is a collection of short stories that the publisher describes as, “Eclectic, experimental, and wildly imaginative climate fictions…”
We are so excited to host her along with the fabulous Sarah Stonich in the Spare Room at Chucker's Bowl & Lounge on August 20th ( more information on this event will be coming out soon!)
Ashley Shelby was at Scout & Morgan in 2018 to talk about her novel, South Pole Station. It was a great evening hearing about life in the South Pole and her adventures as an environmental journalist. We expect a riveting conversation in August as well!
University of Minnesota Press

07/02/2024

TWO Forerunners release today!

-Cait McKinney's I Know You Are, but What Am I?
Exploring Pee-wee Herman's cultural legacy and how Pee-wee's Playhouse informs our present moment.

-Shenila Khoja-Moolji's The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood:
How the construction of Muslim boys as proto-terrorists is integral to the story of American racial capitalism.

06/27/2024

🎧 New episode on our podcast: Gina M. Stamm, translator of Antoine Volodine's Mevlido's Dreams, and Joshua Armstrong on this key work in the post-exotic fictional universe. https://share.transistor.fm/s/1d38a405

"Translator Stamm does an admirable job of rendering Volodine’s serpentine prose in English, and the noirish, surrealist story turns into an unlikely romp as it riffs on the absurdity of 20th-century political institutions and pop culture." —Publishers Weekly

06/25/2024

We have a brand-new website! And we feel like celebrating. We're doing a Buy More, Save More special sale: Now through Sunday, get 30% off when you spend $25; 40% off when you spend $50; or 50% off when you spend $100 or more. Use promo code MN91620. (note that the sale price shows up in the shopping cart after a delivery address is entered.)

Happy shopping!

https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-sales-and-collections/

06/24/2024

A wonderful piece in Pioneer Press featuring Ashley Shelby, author of the out-this-week Honeymoons in Temporary Locations. Thanks so much to Mary Ann Grossmann for your thoughtful coverage. And please check out the launch event with Ashley and Eric Holthaus tomorrow, 6pm, Moon Palace Books!

Besides talking bears, her book is made up of humorous, horrific, satirical stories.

06/20/2024

Excellent books (including THREE of ours!) on this list! Congrats Jennifer McPhail Grenz, Appetite For Change, and Teresa Peterson!

As summer kicks off, we've got two dozen books to share with you.

06/18/2024

Now live: The stunning, absolutely amazing launch event for Traveling without Moving, featuring author Taiyon J. Coleman with April Gibson and Lester Batiste, which took place this past month and was hosted at Moon Palace Books, is now available to watch online.

Taiyon J. Coleman writes intimate essays from childhood in Chicago to being the only Black student in a prestigious creative writing program to institutional...

06/04/2024

Thrilled to see amazing new titles released into the world!

-Traveling without Moving: Essays from a Black Woman Trying to Survive in America by Taiyon J. Coleman. A stunning lyrical commentary on the constructions of race, gender, and class.

TONIGHT: A book launch event to celebrate the book's release, featuring Coleman in conversation with Lester Batiste and April Gibson at Moon Palace Books, 6PM!

"This book is a statement of truth to power, to the world beyond this one, and to the spirits waiting to enter."
—Kao Kalia Yang

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-Prairie Edge, new fiction by Conor Kerr. Set loose a herd of bison in downtown Edmonton: what could go wrong?

"A deeply introspective, philosophizing Indigenous Western that is filled with life, love, disaster, and freedom."
—Joshua Whitehead

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-Worlds Built to Fall Apart: Versions of Philip K. Dick by David Lapoujade, translated by Erik Beranek. Philosophical analysis of one of the most peculiar and popular science fiction authors.

"A cascade of insights even for those of us who’ve been reading Dick for decades."
—Jonathan Lethem