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Helen Hoover's Place in the Woods | University of Minnesota Press | Episode 131 During the late 1950s through the early 1970s, Helen Hoover’s stories and essays of life in the wilderness on northern Minnesota’s Gunflint Lake, published in popular magazines and several bestselling...

Kicking off Women's History Month with a conversation about self-trained scientist and off-the-grid nature writer Helen Hoover, who made a place for herself in the world of her time.

🎧: share.transistor.fm/s/3abbd0a7

A b&w engraving of a baby bird perched on a leafy branch.

A book cover with the title printed sideways up the left side, subtitle presented (in five rows) across the page next to it, with the author's name in all caps just below. The featured image is a colored engraving of wildflowers and berries on the vine, with a bird alighting on the top.

The Fledgling Dove, engraved 1951, by #JoanHassall, OBE (British, 1906-1988) who was born #otd, Mar 3.
Hassall is 1 of 4 artists featured in Enchanted Wood: Engraving a Place for Women Artists in Rural Britain, by Kristen Bluemel, www.upress.umn.edu/978151791477... ( @uminnpress.bsky.social, 2026)

Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination Igniting political power through the lens of art and the imaginationPostpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination investigates the erosion of meaningful politic...

Friends! Would you or somebody you know want to review our @uminnpress.bsky.social edited collection Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination for @asapartsnow.bsky.social? If so, please head on the journal's site (asapjournal.com/submit/) and pitch your review!

Also, please repost! Thank you!

​Book cover for Hermes III: Translation by Michel Serres, translated by Randolph Burks. At top, thin perspective lines from top and bottom converge at two offset points. Author name over this. At bottom, title in dark orange background.

Book cover for The Impossible Reversal: A History of How We Play by Peter D. McDonald. A paper fortune teller with red leaves carrying the title in white against a green felt background.

Book cover for Border Mediascapes: Cinematic Itineraries at the Edge of Europe by Francesco Zucconi. Pixelated blue image of rippling water. Title in white, broken into several right angles arranged top to bottom.

Book cover for Out of the Blue: New Short Fiction from Iceland, compiles by Helen Mitsios with foreword by Sjón. Background in shades of blue. Title, subtitle, and credits appear in san-serif font, as if on surface that is curling into itself.

New releases:
-Michel Serres's Hermes III: Translation
-The Impossible Reversal by @pdmcdonald.bsky.social : a cultural history of play from Fluxus to SimCity
-Border Mediascapes by Francesco Zucconi: on cinema and border zones
-Out of the Blue: translated Icelandic fiction, now in PB

The cover of the picture book The Blue House I Loved by Kao Kalia Yang and illustrated by Jen Shin shows a young girl in a blue sun dress running towards a blue house. The house windows are illuminated.

The Blue House I Loved by Kao Kalia Yang, illus Jen Shin is an open-house tour that lovingly shows how memories leave a lasting mark, "inviting us toward the past, to ourselves and each other, again." Here's my ⭐Booklist #bookreview: tinyurl.com/5n97va5x #KidLit @uminnpress.bsky.social 📚👍

Kristin Bluemel's book "Enchanted Wood: Engraving a Place for Women Artists in Rural Britain" focuses on artists Gwen Raverat, Agnes Miller Parker, Clare Leighton, and Joan Hassall.

And it is available in paperback!

www.upress.umn.edu/978151791477...

Reaching Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche, the posthuman, and beyond.

New Nietzsche #books from Edgar Landgraf (@uminnpress.bsky.social) and @dharlanwilson.bsky.social (@rdspress.bsky.social)! 💙📚 #booksky
roychristopher.substack.com/p/reaching-n...

We have been delighted with a box of treats from our resident recipe-tester🍪

Filled with perfect bake sale recipes, check out The Ultimate Minnesota Cookie Book for your fundraising needs!

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I’m reading, signing and selling books, and doing a kid’s activity around my children’s PB book tonight at 6 pm, at the Home and Garden Show at the convention center!

Tix are cheap, but use the promo code to get half price: BABYCAKES

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Letter From Minnesota: Waiting For the Barbarians to Get the F*ck Out When I came home from prison in 2022, I moved back to the Powderhorn Park neighborhood where I grew up. I was 21 years old when I left, I was 44 when I returned. It was supposed to be a much differ…

"The unspoken part of divisive rhetoric and propagandized fear is how much work the presence of barbarians—real and imagined—does to solidify the status quo." Zeke Caligiuri in @literaryhub.bsky.social : lithub.com/letter-from-...

Book launch Dan Hassler-Forest: Fast and Furious Franchising Dan Hassler-Forest’s Fast and Furious Franchising charts the transformation of Hollywood through the story of one of its most successful cinematic universes.

On April 22, my university will host a book launch event for my new monograph FAST & FURIOUS FRANCHISING, with presentations by Bruce Mutsvairo, @aways.bsky.social and @joostvervoort.bsky.social. It's free and open to the public, followed by free drinks! Register here: www.uu.nl/en/events/bo...

Book cover for Skating Away from the Binary by Erica Rand. Orange with yellow and white sans-serif font and Forerunners series detail element at lower right corner.

🎧 At age 60, Erica Rand took up pairs figure skating, and directly encountered the interconnected binarisms shaping athletic participation. Her story, and a call to transform gender norms in sport, on the Press podcast with Travers and Mary Louise Adams. share.transistor.fm/s/5ce9d8f8

Commiphora (myrhh) thicket and brick production and construction staging, Ifo refugee camp, Dadaab, Kenya. Photo: Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi.

Announcing a new series, Cohabitations, for studies of past, present, and future habitats, featuring editors Namita Vijay Dharia, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Peg Rawes, Ikem Stanley Okoye, and Daniel A. Barber. www.upress.umn.edu/announcing-a...

Image collage from six book covers including Enchanted Wood, Drawn to Nature, Place-Keepers, Long Take, Digital Animalities, and A Perfectionist Impulse. Lots of foliage, Akira Kurosawa profile crop, a pink seahorse, close crop of illusration in front of Taco Taxi. White text on black strip at bottom: Collection: College Art.

Hello, College Art in Chicago! Visit our booth or browse the sale online: www.upress.umn.edu/caa/ #CAA114 #CAA

Focus on Global Lit: Nonfiction in Translation | Kirkus Reviews Foreign books get short shrift in the U.S., but there is great nonfiction available if one seeks it out. We recommend six new titles.

“Film doesn’t really care about national borders,” Kurosawa writes. “It plays an important role by enabling people to understand each other, actually.” Beautiful translated nonfiction roundup in Kirkus: www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...

YouTube video by Futures of Sustainability, Universität Hamburg Eine Sprache für unsere Zeit? Zur radikalen Gegenwärtigkeit von Günther Anders

Wer möchte, kann unser Hamburger Gespräch über Günther Anders als Denker der Gegenwart, 70 Jahre »Antiquiertheit« und die erste englische Gesamtübersetzung (@uminnpress.bsky.social) jetzt nachhören und -sehen 👇

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CdN...

🙏 an @chrhentschel.bsky.social und Martin Kollmann!

Whose Journey? On the Travel Writing of Displacement Travel—and the writing that seeks to capture it—is inherently generative. Travelers use movement through space to explore personal identity and social norms. Then, by organizing those explorations …

"Deep engagement with place, identity, and transformation invites readers to reconsider what counts as travel—and whose voices deserve to be heard." lithub.com/whose-journe...

The @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast devoted a full episode to my new book FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING, which will be published by @uminnpress.bsky.social very soon now! newbooksnetwork.com/fast-and-fur...

Book cover for Long Take by Akira Kurosawa, translated by Anne McKnight. Grayscale photo of Akira Kurosawa wearing a suit, tie, and sunglasses, looking downward; his name appears prominently in a black column on the right.

Nice LONG TAKE review in @ShelfAwareness: "an indispensable companion to the director's autobiography and a singular look at his perspectives on film."
www.shelf-awareness.com/sar3-issue.h...

Cultural Critique 130 available on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56400 @culturalcritique.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social @wstraw.bsky.social

Future Anterior 22.1-2 available on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56377 @columbiagsapp.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social

Free article in Future Anterior: Alfredo Thiermann, Pedro Correa, Ella Neumaier, and Xavier Nueno, "Office Work: Architecture and Extraction Between Atacama and Hamburg": muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...

Future Anterior 22.1&2 cover featuring alternating green, white, dark blue, light blue, khaki, grey, and brown stripes. The journal's title, and titles of 13 articles and their authors, appear on the stripes.

Cultural Critique 130 cover featuring the journal title running off the edges of the cover. The letter "C" in the title, as well as a large stripe at the cover's bottom, are blue.

Two new journal issues:
-Future Anterior 22.1-2: The Potential of Provenance. Editor Jorge Otero-Pailos; guest editors Mari Lending, Alena Beth Rieger, Simon Mitchell.
-Cultural Critique 130. Editors Cesare Casarino, Frieda Ekotto, Maggie Hennefeld, John Mowitt, Simona Sawhney.

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Settler Colonial City Revealing the enduring link between settler colonization and the making of modern Minneapolis  Colonial relations are often excluded from discussions of urb...

Via @sunyungshin.bsky.social! this looks interesting and important:
www.upress.umn.edu/978151790480...

Graphic with navy background, University of Minnesota Press logo at lower left corner, left half displays book cover for Brave Enough by Jessie Diggins (​cyano overlay close-up of Diggins in profile with title, author info, and Jackie Joyner-Kersee blurb in white sans serif font), bronze medal image small in middle, and text at right: Four-time Olympic​ medalist Jessie Diggins reveals her journey from the American Midwest into sports history in this inspiring memoir.

A fight to the finish today -- so proud of you, Jessie Diggins!

Read about her journey from Stillwater, MN, to international sports history: www.upress.umn.edu/978151790820...

​Book cover for Skating Away from the Binary by Erica Rand. Orange with yellow and white sans-serif font and Forerunners series detail element at lower right corner.

Shouting out a very timely, short, and readable little book, Erica Rand's Skating Away from the Binary—a call to transform gender norms in sport. Available in print; free to read online: www.upress.umn.edu/978151792055...

Lulu In Hollywood Essential writings by this icon of the silent era—rereleased in print and now available as an e-book 100 years after Louise Brooks arrived in HollywoodLulu...

Fantastic to see @uminnpress.bsky.social putting this essential collection of writings back in print, by Lulu herself.
www.upress.umn.edu/978081663731...

Book cover for ​Long Take by Akira Kurosawa, translated by Anne McKnight. Grayscale photo of Akira Kurosawa wearing a suit, tie, and sunglasses, looking downward; his name appears prominently in a black column on the right.

Book cover for Assembly Lines: Montage in Postwar French Film by Ivan Cerecina. Helmeted Nazi soldiers on upper half. Doubled red image of Coca Cola sign and Finnish flags on lower half. Title in white and gold left center.

Book cover for Black Light: Revealing the Hidden History of Photography and Cinema by Christophe Wall-Romana. Black background with burnt film cell at center Title in white above, subtitle and author in gray at bottom.

Book cover for Lulu In Hollywood: Expanded Edition by Louise Brooks. Black background, typography in vintage cinematic font in white, in particular 'Lulu' covering top half. Profile image of the subject in green dress.

Beautiful film studies releases:
-Long Take, memoir of director Akira Kurosawa, translated @annekmck.bsky.social
-Assembly Lines: Montage in Postwar French Film / Ivan Cerecina
-Black Light: Revealing the Hidden History of Photography and Cinema / Christophe Wall-Romana
-Louise Brooks autobiography

Navigating and challenging deep-seated racial injustices in the Midwest. | University of Minnesota Press | Episode 129 Movidas are subtle yet strategic actions through which Latina/x artists forge solidarities, mobilize for justice, and reclaim space. In Place-Keepers, Jessica Lopez Lyman centers Latina/x women and ge...

🎧 "We talk about resistance or resilience; what does that actually look like?" Jessica Lopez Lyman, author of Place-Keepers, with Kristie Soares and Karmen Chávez on the Press podcast.
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​Book cover for The Blue House I Loved by Kao Kalia Yang, illustrations by Jen Shin. Watercolor of blue house. Children playing and riding bikes before it. Child in blue dress in foreground. Title in white across lavender sky.

"Kao Kalia Yang once again encourages us to engage with one another in the communal—and vital—practice of remembering. A beautiful book." —Bao Phi. THE BLUE HOUSE I LOVED is out today! Happy to share that tonight's launch will be livestreamed at 6pm Central: sppl.bibliocommons.com/events/695d5...