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New novel shows destruction of Rondo neighborhood through the eyes of a young girl Decades after Interstate 94 construction destroyed her grandparents’ house in the 1960s, writer Debra J. Stone wrote about a young girl who grapples with the displacement and destruction of her histor...

It's been 60+ years since the construction of Interstate 94 destroyed much of the historically Black St. Paul neighborhood known as Rondo. Minneapolis writer Debra J. Stone remembers visiting her grandparents as a child in Rondo every Sunday without fail. www.mprnews.org/episode/2025...

Book cover of Pipeline Noir: Seeing Oil through Chinatown by Michael Rubenstein. Beige background with title in white font in fore and Forerunners series elements in tiny detail throughout.

Out today: A fascinating interpretation of Chinatown through the lens of petromodernity by Michael Rubenstein. Available in paperback or in an OA electronic edition on Manifold.

manifold.umn.edu/projects/rub...

Book cover of The Persistence of Masks: Surrealism and the Ethnogarphy of the Subject by Joyce Suechun Cheng. Beige background with a cowrie shell, soapstone pipe, and earthenware bowl arranged to suggest a face. Title text is orange red, the rest black.

Book cover of The House on Rondo by Debra J Stone. Mixed-media collage and painted view of persons on street in front of gabled house. Title in bold yellow letters above, author in bold white below.

Book cover of Sugar Bush Babies: Stories of My Ojibwe Grandmother by Janis A. Fairbanks. Landscape photo with rosy clouds above river and rushes. Snapshot of young woman at bottom, overlaid with snapshot of family of seven.

Book cover of The Inner Harbour: A Post-Exotic Novel by Antoine Volodine, translated by Gina Stamm. View of tall buildings and harbor. In sky above the eye and hair of a person. Title in two beige strips in middle. Author in large cursive font below.

New books galore! Out today:
-The Persistence of Masks, the inaugural volume in our Surrealisms series
-The House on Rondo, fiction by Debra J Stone
-Sugar Bush Babies, memoir by Janis A. Fairbanks
-The Inner Harbour, new Volodine translation by Gina M. Stamm

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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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.

Update: The 10/16 event with Leon Hilton has finalized an option to attend via Zoom. Register here: tisch.nyu.edu/performance-...

Just released!!! New book on queer bullying from @uminnpress.bsky.social. Edited by QuERI directors Payne and Smith with contributions from an amazing group of international scholars.

It's possible; we're checking in on this. Will update here if there's a link.

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-...

Checkpoint 300 and the Architecture of Control Mark Griffiths shows how the infamous Checkpoint 300 embodies larger geographies of Israeli control — reshaping a once-vibrant commercial strip in the West Bank.

Mark Griffiths shows how the infamous Checkpoint 300 embodies larger geographies of Israeli control — reshaping a once-vibrant commercial strip in the West Bank.
nextcity.org/features/che...

The Luminous Fairies and Mothra by Takehiko Fukunaga, Yoshie Hotta, Shin'ichiro Nakamura In the afterword to the first English-language edition of this wonderfully weird 1961 novella that inspired the classic kaiju fi...

Via @publisherswkly.bsky.social: "Creature feature buffs will be thrilled." 🦋
www.publishersweekly.com/9781517920012

Bookshelf: Summer 2025 | Book Reviews in Places Journal A seasonal offering of brief reviews of recent books on architecture, landscapes, cities, and related subjects.

Grateful to Jay Cephas for a brief but incisive review of our book at Places. "Solidarity cites" collectively written by @stephenhealy72.bsky.social, @msafri.bsky.social, @craigborowiak.bsky.social, and myself. Published by @uminnpress.bsky.social.
placesjournal.org/article/book...

So while the government is 'shut down', it seems a good time for a reminder that governance can be done in much better ways. New podcast discussion on my book out today with the New Books Network. newbooksnetwork.com/replace-the-... @uminnpress.bsky.social #geosky #booksky

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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#BookSky 💙 📚

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.
www.upress.umn.edu/ghosts-and-m...

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...

🎧 New on our podcast: Chris Washington, Christopher Breu, Marquis Bey, and Alison Sperling on reading Jane Austen as an early gender abolitionist and establishing a politics of plurality and possibility.
share.transistor.fm/s/57e6a465

Just received in the mail! Our new volume on queer kids and bullying is out now! Thank you to all the outstanding contributors! @uminnpress.bsky.social

Oh hey! The author copies of Leaf Town Forever, the picture book that I wrote with @bethrooney.bsky.social arrived in the mail this weekend from @uminnpress.bsky.social! @martinseay.bsky.social thinks it’s pretty good.

Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation Capitalism reproduces and relies upon racism. This much we know. But what if our efforts to push back against and move beyond capitalism do the same? This

Thanks to Nick Clare and Joe Kearsey for a generous review and appreciation of mapping that we used as an ontological practice for landscapes of solidarity economy in Solidarity Cities: Confronting racial capitalism, mapping transformation.

academic.oup.com/cdj/advance-...

I'm a professor who writes about Blackness and speculative fiction, also 🌈

My first book is SPECULATIVE BLACKNESS, from @uminnpress.bsky.social

The book I edited is THE BLACK FANTASTIC, from @libraryofamerica.bsky.social

and next year, get
AUDIOFUTURISM, from @fordhampress.bsky.social!

YouTube video by UMinnPress Fascinating look inside Checkpoint 300 with author Mark Griffiths

Behind Checkpoint 300: A short Q&A with author @casesofyou.bsky.social : www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEaZ...

I’m bookmarking @touloumi.bsky.social's book, Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Global Interior. It paints a complex picture of who designed the headquarters and why: for photography and television.

Published by @uminnpress.bsky.social.

Three economies of transcendence | University of Minnesota Press | Episode 118 “Lack of political will and corruption of the ruling class are certainly enormous obstacles but do not (fully) explain the widespread inaction against our current multidimensional crisis (ecological c...

🎧 New on our podcast: A deep philosophical dive into the fundamental dimensions of subjectivity, society, and time through the lens of transcendence, with Andrea Righi and Michael Lewis. share.transistor.fm/s/aab495f2

​Book cover of Checkpoint 300: Colonial Space in Palestine by Mark Griffiths. Blocked title with black and red lettering on a black-and-white image of an institutional hallway divided by a metal gate and enclosed turnstile.

Out today: Drawing on nearly a decade of fieldwork, a sensitive, timely examination of how colonial power infiltrates family dynamics, enforces gendered mobility restrictions, shapes local economies. Checkpoint 300 by @casesofyou.bsky.social

www.upress.umn.edu/978151791984...

The Impossible Reversal Tracing the cultural history of play—from Fluxus to SimCityGames and gamified activities have become ubiquitous in many adults’ lives, and play is widely...

The cover for my upcoming book, The Impossible Reversal, is up on UP Minnesota's website! Super thrilled by this design. (you can pre-order it there as well).

www.upress.umn.edu/978151791622...

Coming soon. The Citizen and the Vagabond. A Politics of Mobility.

Feels more urgent than ever to support cities as bulwarks against the storm. Very excited to have this new podcast drop with me and coauthors about our #SolidarityCities book!
Thank you.
@urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social
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In my first book, Food Allergy Advocacy, I discussed the national campaign to change every state's laws, one at a time, to allow teachers and other community members to administer epinephrine auto-injectors to kids when needed. So now I have some thoughts about these multi-state collaboratives:

Cover for International Journal of Surrealism 2.2 with the journal's title and stylized brown graphics of eyes. It features a surrealist print of a sitting figure.

A new issue of the International Journal of Surrealism is out via @projectmuse.bsky.social
-Special issue: Surrealism and the Black World
-Guest Editors: Tiffany E. Barber and Carine Harmand
-Journal Editors: Katharine Conley and Alyce Mahon
-OA article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...

See you on Saturday for this FREE event! ✌🏽

First five families get a free signed book.

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