University of Minnesota Press

You know, I, I had probably been done writing that book for about a year and a half before it came out.

In that window is kind of, like, you know, you start to think about, like, "Well, what's next?" Or, "What can I do?" The University of Minnesota Press launched a, uh, la- launched a book series called Mass Markets.

And the Mass Markets series, it takes the start, as a starting point that franchises and franchise aesthetics kind of dominate global contemporary culture.

And so it kinda challenges professors to think about one franchise for the duration of an entire book.

Yeah.

I mean, it is really imp- I mean, hey, my, my friend Jordan Carroll, if people wanna read the...

I mean, he wrote an incredible book with the University of Minnesota Press about the alt-right and, um, science fiction called Speculative Whiteness.

It's incredibly impressive book, but I couldn't do it.

So A couple of things that came out recently that I think would be really good to highlight and say, hey, these would be worth your time taking a look at.

The first one is from the University of Minnesota Press.

A book came out recently called Ishkoda, A Story of Fire.

And it's written by Evan Larson, who I know Evan Larson.

Their work ranges from food geographies, which was the subject of their PhD, to trans geographies, creative geographies, and EDI in the academy.

As we mentioned in this episode, they have recently published their latest book, Disorienting Phenomenology, Queer Space and Trans Life with the University of Minnesota Press.

I've got a copy of this book.

It's very short and very good.

I read it and just came away from it lit up because of Allen Ginsberg's industriousness, the maximalist approach he took to self-documentation, the almost shocking fearlessness with which he operated creatively.

especially in the context of his times how hard he worked in support of authors and artists he believed in how much chutzpah he had the way that he lived like a rock star as a poet on earth in the 20th century It's a remarkable life, and Michael Schumacher captures it beautifully in Dharma Lion.

He also wrote biographies of Francis Ford Coppola and Eric Clapton, and he edited a number of books about Ginsburg, or a number of collections of Ginsburg's journals, as well as a collection of correspondence between Allen and his father, the poet Louis Ginsburg, and he edited a collection of Ginsburg's best work called The Essential Ginsburg.

So, I think the centerpiece, it's fair to say, of Michael Schumacher's creative life was Ginsburg and the Beats, but he did a lot of other stuff too, and he was great in conversation.

Okay, so my guest today in this flashback episode is Michael Schumacher, the late great.

We are revisiting episode 684.

Michael and I were talking about his book entitled Dharma Lion, a biography of Allen Ginsberg, the great American poet.

A fascinating talk, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

So for this, I turned to a book called Scandinavian Folk Belief and Legend by a couple of scholars named Raymond Kvitaland and Henning K. Simsdorff.

This book is from the University of Minnesota Press, 1988.

And the authors note that while mining legends are prolific throughout continental Europe, they're actually a little bit less common, though still present in Scandinavia.

So they were able to collect five different varieties of mining legend here based on accounts from different times and places from Sweden and Norway.

His writings explore critical ecologies of narrative, systems theory, post-humanism, and Gaia theory.

His most recent books are Writing Gaia, The Scientific Correspondence of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis, co-edited with Sébastien Dutreuil, out from Cambridge in 2022, and Gaien Systems, Lynn Margulis, New Cybernetics and the End of the Anthropocene, out from University of Minnesota Press in 2020.

Previous monographs include Neo-Cybernetics and Narrative, also from Minnesota in 2014, Post-Human Metamorphosis, Narrative and Systems, from Fordham in 2008, and Energy Forms, Allegory and Science in the Era of Classical Thermodynamics, from Michigan in 2001.

With Henry Sussman, he co-edits the book series Meaning Systems, published by Fordham University Press.

She is the writer and artist who co-edited Nick of Time, Women Write About Art and Aging.

It is out now on the University of Minnesota Press.

And there's a launch party for the book this evening with doors at 6 p.m. and the event beginning at 630.

This is at the Open Book Performance Hall at the Loft Literary Center in downtown Minneapolis.

Good to write there.

U of M, University of Minnesota Press has my titles, if you want to grab them there.

Prints, following prints in the 90s, The Gold Experience, and a couple others, a couple of compilations.

But the Replacements book, you can only get that on eBay for a few hundred dollars.

Yet according to Antero Garcia, it shouldn't.

Garcia is associate professor in Stanford's Graduate School of Education, and he's author of All Through the Town: The School Bus as Educational Technology, which is published by the University of Minnesota Press.

You argue, Antero, that the school bus is the longest lasting and most widely felt intervention in public schooling in the last century.

How so?

Um, school buses have revolutionized learning, but probably not for, uh, the, the kinds of powerful, positive examples that people might be hoping for.

And Tara Garcia is my guest.

He teaches at the Graduate School of Education at Stanford, and we're discussing All Through the Town: The School Bus as Educational Technology, which is published by the University of Minnesota Press, and at againstthegrain.org you can find a link to that book.

I'm Sasha Lilley, and this is Against the Grain on Pacifica Radio.