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Heather Skinner: Publicist and Assistant Marketing Manager; presspr@umn.edu; Phone: (612) 301-1932; [vCard ]
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Press Releases

Minnesota: Where Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan's career began Oct 13, 2016: Two books, Positively Main Street and Highway 61 Revisited, dig into the singer's storied career and Minnesota roots
Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar's inspiring memoir—now in paperback Aug 23, 2016: The Senator Next Door will be available Sept. 1
Announcing Avant Museology, a symposium at the Walker Art Center Jul 19, 2016: This two-day symposium explores the practices and sociopolitical implications of contemporary museology
This two-day symposium on November 20-21, 2016, features University of Minnesota Press authors Timothy Morton, Cary Wolfe, and Arseny Zhilyaev.

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The Best of End Times: Edge Effects in conversation with Anna Tsing Sep 19, 2017 Edge Effects: Anthropologist Anna Tsing has gone on a hunt for “arts of living” in this complex and unstable world.
Los Angeles Book Review: On Fuel Sep 12, 2017 Los Angeles Review of Books: Karen Pinkus’s inventive and engaging Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary constitutes a notable addition to a field that has rapidly come to be known as the “energy humanities.”
New book champions marginalized players behind the ‘Minneapolis Sound’ Sep 08, 2017 Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder: Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder interviews Andrea Swensson.