Leah Pennywark

Announcing my book, Techno-Negative!

It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.

Jess stands at a microphone at the back of a coffee shop reading from their book "Abolition Time" as people seated at tables listen.

Jess is seen standing and gesturing in mid-sentence at a book talk on a small coffee shop. They are wearing a pink dress, black boots, and a keffiyeh.

Got some pictures from my local coffee shop book talk from one of the attendees. I enjoyed reading from "Abolition Time" and talking with folks about art & social justice. And it was really well attended for a small town in the northern New Mexico mountains!

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Pipeline Noir Watching Chinatown fifty years after its release reveals hidden connections to today’s energy and climate crises   Pipeline Noir offers a fascinating inte...

Out today: Michael Rubenstein's Pipeline Noir! Chinatown through the lens of petromodernity
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791926...

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Officially out tomorrow, but I'm so excited to be holding a copy today! Our newest Forerunner: Pipeline Noir: Seeing Oil through Chinatown by Michael Rubenstein

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Tiles with select book titles cropped surround bright-colored text against black background: Ghosts and Monsters Sale.

October has dawned—and so has our spooky sale. Ghosts and monsters, Mothra and Godzilla, horror theory and horror film, the supernatural and the speculative: 30% off our collection with code MN93980.
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Image of cover of book The Popular Wobbly: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim edited by Owen Clayton and Iain McIntyre, reviewed by Michael Jongen in the Newtown Review of Books.

"especially illuminating on early 20th-century American labour politics, and ..the clear parallels with the political climate today."
Michael Jongen reviews Owen Clayton and Iain McIntyre (eds) The Popular Wobbly:
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/owen-clayton...
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Counter-cartographies: Neurodivergence and the Errancies of Performance, a Book Talk with Leon Hilton We are excited to welcome back PS Alum Leon Hilton (Ph.D. '16) to discuss his new book, Counter-cartographies: Neurodivergence and the Errancies of Performance.

Book talk with Leon Hilton at NYU Tisch on 10/16, cosponsored by @center4ds.bsky.social : tisch.nyu.edu/performance-...

Nonbinary Jane Austen | University of Minnesota Press | Episode 119 Chris Washington reads Jane Austen differently from how she is classically understood; rather than the doyen of the cisheteronormative marriage plot, Washington argues that Austen leverages the generi...

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"Bucknell has decided to close its highly respected, decades-old UP in June 2026. The stated reason? The press serves scholars, not Bucknell undergrads. Bucknell undergrads—& some grad students as well—disagree." FANTASTIC piece on BUP's student internship program. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

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Our fantastic Editorial Director, Jason Weidemann @fiveoclockbot.bsky.social, is one of the speakers at this week's AUPresses webinar!

Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation Tracing the erosion of democratic norms in the US and the conditions that make it possible Jonathan Beecher Field tracks the permutations of the town hall me...

Many traditional forms of U.S. democracy, including the debate, have been emptied of their deliberative character & transformed into reactionary performances, as @thegurglingcod.bsky.social so powerfully shows.

I got my undergraduate degree at the University of Minnesota and have worked for the University for 24 years. I fully support my coworkers striking for a fairer contract.

The Bad Child Collected writings from a visionary thinker about the perilous edge between patriotism and fascism   How do nationalism and patriotism shape our understand...

Marta Figlerowicz's The Bad Child: A Maria Janion Reader is out today! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791968...

Relatedly, I love Igor Omulecki's iconoclastic and playful portrait of Janion on the cover!

Check out Marta Figlerowicz on her book, The Bad Child: A Maria Janion Reader, which is out next week!

Leon J. Hilton, "Counter-Cartographies: Neurodivergence and the Errancies of Performance" (U Minnesota Press, 2025) <p>What if we embraced neurodivergent ways of being not as deviations to be corrected but as vital ways of inhabiting the world? What new realities might emerge? Bringing a much-needed humanistic pers...

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I started reading the list of Bucknell English dept faculty. I don't think I know any irl or on here but every single bio lists a current book project or a/many published book/s--expected, presumably, for tenure. Will Bucknell--upon closing Bucknell UP--stop expecting their own fac to publish books?

Three Economies of Transcendence Exploring climate change through the interconnections between sociality, theory of money, and a different concept of time​Three Economies of Transcendence ...

Andrea Righi's Forerunner is out today! Three Economies of Transcendence explores climate change through the interconnections between sociality, theory of money, and a different concept of time
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Capitalism Hates You Published by the University of Minnesota Press Horror generates a strange cultural fascination with the impure, the toxic, and the monstro...

“Capitalism Hates You is cultural criticism and political analysis at their sharpest. The book left me with a deeper appreciation of horror as a tool for recognizing—and resisting—the oppressive structures that shape our lives."
jedi-book-reviews.blogspot.com/2025/08/capi...

The Popular Wobbly: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim Published by the University of Minnesota Press A sharp, witty, and critical voice in the labor movement of the 1920s to 1940s, T-Bone Slim—...

"The volume is an especially timely read, a poignant reminder that injustice, class divisions, and ethnic strife are longstanding and enduring issues among America's workforce." jedi-book-reviews.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-...

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I’m so proud to be working with you on this!

Something very exciting happened while I was on vacation last week!

Counter-cartographies How to remake the world with neurodivergence at its heart What if we embraced neurodivergent ways of being not as deviations to be corrected but as vital way...

Remake the world with neurodivergence at its heart! Leon J. Hilton's Counter-cartographies: Neurodivergence and the Errancies of Performance is out today! www.upress.umn.edu/978151790903...

Congratulations to Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social on winning a HUGO AWARD for his Forerunner, SPECULATIVE WHITENESS!

A fantastic win for @jordanscarroll.bsky.social . My review at @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social :
nerds of a feather, flock together: Review: Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right share.google/dyDr02kyw0gg...

#Hugo for Best Related Work:

Speculative Whiteneess: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right by Jordon S. Carroll (University of Minnesota Press)

I hope this work helps resist Fascism adn that the universe of tomorrow belongs to all of us.

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This book has enduring value and should be a resource for all serious scholars of science fiction and of fandom history.