University of Chicago Press

So Jennifer A. Jordan is professor of sociology, urban studies, and history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

She is the author of Structures of Memory, Understanding Urban Change in Berlin, and Beyond an Edible Memory, The Lure of Heirloom Tomatoes and Other Forgotten Foods, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.

She lives in Milwaukee, where she and her husband grow hops in their backyard.

So we have to welcome Jennifer A. Jordan, author of Beer Ghosts in Search of Lost Hops and the Women Who Grew Them.

And if you can't find it at your local independent bookshop, I think it's published by the University of Chicago.

It is indeed quality academic press that you can go directly to University of Chicago Press to get your copy.

David.

It was a real honor to talk to you today.

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the University of Chicago Press is the American distributor.

The American distributor, okay.

Either side will give you lots of quotes from people and also a sample of the text.

And you're right.

My book was released in April, April 13th of this year from the University of Chicago Press.

So that's that's that brings you up to today or six months ago, at least when the book came out.

Congratulations.

I'm your host, Dan Oppenheimer, agent Fox Mulder of the contemporary American intellectual scene.

My guest on the show today is Jeff Kripal, professor of religion at Rice University, and for the better part of two decades, arguably the most serious scholar in American academia who is willing to take The Paranormal Seriously, Jeff has published a long shelf of books with the University of Chicago Press, including a history of the Esalen Institute, authors of The Impossible, Mutants and Mystics, The Flip, The Superhumanities, and most recently, How to Think Impossibly.

He also founded what began as the Archives of the Impossible and is now the Center for the Impossible at Rice, which by his account includes more than a million documents, letters, recordings and case files on things like telepathy, near-death experiences, precognition, mediumships, UFOs and alien abduction.

And as of this month, he is on television hosting a six-part docuseries on Sundance TV and AMC Plus called Archive X Unexplained Phenomena.

I think tomorrow is the debut of what looks like a six-episode kind of docuseries on AMC that you are the host of that is called, what, Archive X...

Unexplained phenomena.

I'm interested because that's cool and I didn't know about it, but also I think in a sense it will lay the groundwork for our sort of more concrete discussion of these phenomena and your study of them over the last 15 or so years, which has kind of been this massive... multi-book project series that you have been publishing with university of chicago press and then you have this archive that you've established at rice university which i think you said is called what is the archive of the impossible uh something to that effect so but let's tell me about the series because that's fun and people like tv and that's exciting and you're going to be a big star um tell me tell me what that's about and then we'll get into all of the details

Well, that's about all of this.

NOEMA, N-O-E-M-A, very much worth checking out.

And you'll publish your first book with the University of Chicago Press called Our Planetary Mirror.

Earth Science and the Reimagining of Humanity.

And let me...

And a bunch of my friends from New York and the surrounding area came.

And then a day and a half later, the next day, actually, I did a lot of Chicago Press.

And then I did a Chicago Veronica Beard event on October 8th.

A lot of my close friends in Chicago were there.

It's the publishing house of the Charles University.

And these two publishers in particular have very good distribution networks through Chicago University Press, which means that the books they publish get into all the libraries of all the institutions around the world that have any interest in Slovak literature or culture.

And that means that even if these books may not sell in the thousands, for anyone who wants to find out about Slovak books, they can now be found.

In this respect, I would like to ask about the criteria of choosing the authors to be translated.