Grilled Cheese

ExploreLog inSign up

University of Minnesota Press

@uminnpress.bsky.social

924 Following12.3k Followers

Book publisher, est. 1925.

PostsRepliesMedia
@upsideofdown.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 10:30 PMReposted by @uminnpress.bsky.social

Hanging out at my sister @kellyfritsch.bsky.social book launch at UToronto. Always a super cool and proud moment! Check out the book Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin from @uminnpress.bsky.social : www.upress.umn.edu/978151791973...

An image of the book cover Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin at a book launch presentation.
@uminnpress.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 9:47 PM

🆕 🎧 Just released: Rhea Rahman, Arun Kundnani, and Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan talk humanitarianism, "doing good," and Islamic Relief on the University of Minnesota Press podcast.

▶️ z.umn.edu/ep148

Pale blue background with book cover in fore for Racializing the Ummah: Muslim Humanitarians Beyond Black, Brown, and White by Rhea Rahman. Cream background with intricate mosaic patter in two corners. Its pieces come loose and circulate the type in the otherwise empty center. Below book cover, a quote: "The guiding question for the book is: What does it mean to do good?" —Author Rhea Rahman, in conversation with Arun Kundnani and Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan. At left, vertical black bar with headphones vector at top and text below: NEW PODCAST EPISODE. In bottom right corner, University of Minnesota Press logo in maroon.
@uminnpress.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 6:53 PM

Here we are at the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) in Toronto! If you're here, come say hi! If you're not, browse our collection—30% off select books! www.upress.umn.edu/4s/

@4sweb.bsky.social
@fiveoclockbot.bsky.social
#4S #4S2026 #4SToronto

Editor Jason Weidemann sits at table covered with displayed titles as part of the curated Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) collection. Backdrop displays University of Minnesota Press custom tote bags, logo, and custom flyers.
@uminnpress.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 4:10 PM

A surprise meeting with Patty Hearst; a biography of Symbionese Liberation Army member Camilla Hall. Crucial history behind today's news: www.upress.umn.edu/crucial-hist...

@jayweiner.bsky.social
@rachael18.bsky.social

Dark background with side header: Crucial History: The SLA. At right, two book covers with text: (from top) 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. At right, text: “A Kafka-esque tale of betrayal, death, the FBI, an NBA superstar, and a fifty-year-old lesson on what could happen now.” —ROBERT LIPSYTE, author of An Accidental Sportswriter. (below) Book cover for Not the Camilla We Knew: One Woman's Path from Small-town America to the Symbionese Liberation Army by Rachael Hanel. Group photo, with Camilla in black and white divided by slashes from colorized parents on left and Patricia Soltysik on right. At right, text: “Grippingly illuminates the barely perceptible line between an unrelenting passion for justice and devastating choices from which one can’t return.” —BARRIE JEAN BORICH, author of Apocalypse, Darling
@billweinberg.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 10:06 PMReposted by @uminnpress.bsky.social

I discussed your books on the #CounterVortex #podcast, @uminnpress.bsky.social, @simonbooks.bsky.social, @gilduran.com, and used the audio from one your videos, @kaitlynhennessy.bsky.social.... Listen on @soundcloud.dev....
soundcloud.com/user-7521672...

@uminnpress.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 8:18 PM

October Reads list via @msmagazine.com includes Sasha Maria Suarez's An Ojibwe Home in the City: msmagazine.com/2026/10/02/b...

@uminnpress.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 8:15 PM

Jennifer de Mooy talks Minnesota's vast peatland ecosystem and climate change on @mprnews.org 's Minnesota Now: www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...

@deryaaydin.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 5:42 PMReposted by @uminnpress.bsky.social

Serra M. Hakyemez is in conversation with Nadia Abu El-Haj and William T. Mazzarella on the University of Minnesota Press Podcast to talk about her new book, Deadly Refusals: Kurdish Decolonization in Times of Counterterrorism. / @uminnpress.bsky.social
share.transistor.fm/s/972e2dfe

@artherstory.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 9:11 PMReposted by @uminnpress.bsky.social

Enchanted Wood: Engraving a Place for #WomenArtists in Rural Britain by Kristin Bluemel
Reviewed by Paula Derdiger for @mmodernity.bsky.social
modernismmodernity.org/derdiger-enc...
Publisher: @uminnpress.bsky.social

#artherstory

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.
@mattmcneilshow.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 12:31 AMReposted by @uminnpress.bsky.social

Thanks to @uminnpress.bsky.social author #DavidMura for joining the show today to talk about his latest book, 'Exit, Miss Saigon,' available on the 7th!!! He shared a lot about this personal journey to find his true self. Great stuff! #Spotlight Interview! soundcloud.com/am950radio/d...

@uminnpress.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 4:37 PM

"It is far simpler to state an uncomfortable truth: No one really knows what exactly they are doing when they train or prompt an A.I. model." @leifw.bsky.social in @nytopinion.nytimes.com : www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o...

@uminnpress.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 4:31 PM

"Everything is so beautifully intertwined . . . one of our biggest goals was to remind people of the gift of fire and to honor fire and the need for the return of fire." Nisogaabokwe Melonee Montano and Evan Larson (ISHKODE) on WPR:
www.wpr.org/news/good-fi...

@uminnpress.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 7:17 PM

“We romanticize the bootlegging business now, but it was cruel, brutal and lawless. Prohibition made criminals out of regular people.” Great interview with Matt Goldman (THE PROHIBITED) in @PioneerPress : www.twincities.com/2026/09/27/r...

@uminnpress.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 6:36 PM

"As with Kafka, the possibilities of metaphor are less important than the palpable weirdness of the world on the page." @electricliterature.com excerpts LIVING IN FIRE by Antoine Volodine, "the most significant writer writing in French today": electricliterature.com/aunt-yoanna-...

@uminnpress.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 3:26 PM

October paperbacks, coming in hot! Thanks @literaryhub.bsky.social for including Jennifer Delton's surprising story of how Minnesota politicians in the 1950s helped redirect American politics. lithub.com/cheever-on-c...

@uminnpress.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 6:42 PM

Today's nonfiction release reveals how policing is less about managing crime than about governing possibility. "At once an expansive study of the framework of policing and an indictment of its logics." —Simone Browne

R. Joshua Scannell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lS9...

@frannyrecounts.bsky.social

Book cover for The Carceral Surround by R. Joshua Scannell. Image of a shirtless man with shaved head, eyes replaced with blue light, cut into thin columns unevenly aligned on a concrete background.
@uminnpress.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 6:26 PM

Today's fiction release brings to life 1920s St. Paul, a haven for bootleggers, bank robbers—and ordinary folks navigating a new social order. This "spellbinding tour de force" (William Kent Krueger) is based loosely on author Matt Goldman's family history. MN: Catch him on tour!

​Book cover for The Prohibited: A Novel by Matt Goldman. Cream cardstock torn diagonally to reveal a sepia photo of a posh 1920s woman within an empty liquor bottle. Title at top, author at bottom.
At top left, image of the author next to book cover (Cream cardstock torn diagonally to reveal a sepia photo of a posh 1920s woman within an empty liquor bottle. Title at top, author at bottom.). At top right, headline in all caps: Matt Goldman Fall Book Tour Dates. Throughout below, a listing of events lined up during the fall 2026 season: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 6:00PM, Ellsworth High School, hosted by Ellsworth Public Library, WITUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 6:00 PM, Next Chapter BooksSt. Paul, MNin conversation with Lorna LandvikWEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 6:00 PM, Bookstore at Fitgers Duluth, MNTHURSDAY, OCTOBER 1 12:00 PM, Thomas St. Angelo Public Library, Cumberland, WITHURSDAY, OCTOBER 1 6:00 PM, Barnes & NobleGalleria, Edina, MNMONDAY, OCTOBER 5 7:00 PM, Excelsior Bay BooksExcelsior, MNTUESDAY, OCTOBER 13 7:00 PM, Zenith BookstoreDuluth, MNWEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14 7:00 PM, University Club of St. Paul, hosted by Sub Text Bookstore, St. Paul, MNWEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4 5:00 PM, Valley Bookseller/TheLowell Inn, Stillwater, MNSATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7Twin Cities Book Festival,St. Paul, MN. Check host sites for event details.
@liaswopemitchell.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 5:20 PMReposted by @uminnpress.bsky.social

Hey everyone, I'm excited to share with you all this chapter from Antoine Volodine's forthcoming novel Living in Fire. It's titled "Aunt Yoanna" and it's my favorite. With intro by @brianevenson.bsky.social

@electricliterature.com @uminnpress.bsky.social

electricliterature.com/aunt-yoanna-...

@moderniststudies.bsky.socialSep 26, 2026, 6:06 PMReposted by @uminnpress.bsky.social

University of Minnesota Press is offering 30% for the winner of the MSA Translation Prize, Marta Figlerowicz's translation of Maria Janion's Bad Child and Kristin Bluemel's Enchanted Wood, on the MSA Book Prize shortlist. More info can be found on their website @uminnpress.bsky.social

@queeringedu.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 10:54 PMReposted by @uminnpress.bsky.social

Reframing bullying has been key in our scholarship & public policy work for over 15 yrs. These ideas anchor our new book "Queer Kids & Social Violence" @uminnpress.bsky.social. Book talk w @paisleycurrah.com and @ecpayne.bsky.social at @bgsqd.bsky.social Oct7th. Bullying is political.

Older posts
Terms of UsePrivacy PolicyCommunity StandardsHelpGet the app

Grilled Cheese is a product of Village Compute

Version devBuilt at: 2026-10-11 02:37:10 EDT