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Jennifer de Mooy, Water Carbon Time (2026) & Merritt R. Turetsky, Bogland (2026)

These two new titles about peatlands arrived in my mailbox not too far apart, so I decided to bog out and read them back to back! Thanks @uminnpress for the copy of Water Carbon Time and @w.w.norton for the copy of Bogland. Both titles are out now.

Both of these books easily convinced me that bogs are incredible and worthy of more attention! I don’t have a lot of bog experience. A nature area I visited a lot growing up was called Celery Bog, but while I was reading this, I realized it wasn’t actually a bog, but a marsh. Peatlands, which include bogs and fens, are waterlogged environments characterized by carbon-rich peat. Bogs only receive water from precipitation, while fens also get some from streams or other sources. They’re unique ecosystems that are critical for the climate, and under threat. Also, the depths of peat carry so much planetary history. Swipe through for a bit more on each title.

Water Carbon Time is organized around specific peatlands in North America (plus one in Peru). Jennifer de Mooy researched this book by visiting Minnesota, Maine, New Jersey, North Carolina, British Columbia, and more. Her primary mode is descriptive, and I found her language lovely. The words involved with peatlands—ombrotrophic, paludification—are just so cool. Through specific bogs, de Mooy writes about how peatlands show up in different regions and their unique ecologies, as well as some of the research conducted in them. I felt that each chapter was too short—I was always surprised when they ended—and I wanted the description to lead to a little more argument. Still, I really enjoyed reading this!

Merritt Turetsky is an ecologist who has spent her entire career studying peatlands, and that expertise is clear in Bogland. She explains the ecology of bogs—how they form, the kinds of life they support (spaghnum moss, carnivorous plants, bugs), how they hold carbon. Each chapter is organized around a broad duality: life and death, past and present. Bogs are in between a lot of conventional assumptions, she argues. They’re neither land nor water, formed equally by life and death.

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📚 We are grateful for the amazing publishers and bookstores that are part of our literary and artistic ecosystem here in the Twin Cities—and we thank them and their staff for volunteering their time, energy, enthusiasm, and care for our community of writers and readers at our 15th annual ✨BEYOND BARS: Voices of Incarceration✨ student reading.

This year we had Maria and David from @lostkiteeditions, Peter from @moonpalacebooks, and Elaina from @uminnpress tabling alongside friends and family—thank you for sharing important work by members of our community—and thank you to everyone who bought books and swag, and talked about forthcoming projects with them.

Thank you Emmanuel from Crown Media LLC for providing tech support so we could livestream the reading, and our dedicated crew setting up and packing up the Kay Fredericks room at Hamline University.

Endless thanks to @hamlinecwp @hamlineamc for hosting us again year and year!

And deepest gratitude to everyone who took the time to jot down words of praise, kindness, and inspiration to our writers on the inside—your comment cards really mean the world, so thank you! It will take a few days to sort through the hundreds of cards, but we can’t wait to get them to all our featured writers. We are in this together. ❤️🙏🏽📚

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""Like the white rabbit said, feed your head," he said, exhaling the peanut-scented sweetness of a salted nut roll. Dale Ann rolled down her car window, turning her head from the warm wetness of his breath."
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Linda Legarde Grover continues her exploration of the fictionalized Mozhay Point Reservation in A Song over Miskwaa Rapids. The bite sized work means we get only snippets of some of the characters lives (I for one would read a treatise on Dale Ann), but the descriptions and humor feel so true to life. When ghost aunties get involved, an accident from 50 years ago reveals more secrets in the community than most were expecting.
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Chiimigwetch to @uminnpress for gifting me this copy when the paperback came out way back in 2021. It's far too late for a launch press, but hopefully you'll pick this one up before it's out of print (like the beloved Salted Nut Rolls now that Pearson's has closed up shop).
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Also, SOB CAN SOMEONE PLEASE BUY THE FACTORY AND KEEP MAKING THESE IN ST. PAUL. The green book sits centered. To the left a red and white candy wrapper sits. To the right a Ojibwe style floral printed coffee cup sits. The scene is on a dark hardwood floor.

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Thank you Grace for showing off my book at American Studies and online! 30% odd, code MNAMST30 . https://www.upress.umn.edu/amst/ @uminnpress

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New Essay*Lessons on Writing and Life From An Elder* Being a writer and a creative I now know and have come to realize I am the keeper of our history. This is who I am and what I will do.

Read the essay Link in Bio

https://electricliterature.com/lessons-on-writing-and-life-from-an-elder

Lessons on Writing and Life From An Elder published by @electricliterature
Exit Miss Saigon is published by @uminnpress

#davidmuraauthor #exitmisssaigon #japaneseamerican #memoir #mystory

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⭐️Book Review⭐️

Thank you @UMinnPress for my #gifted copy!

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In Ghosts on Fourth Street, author Laurie Hertzel shares her story of growing up in Duluth Minnesota, surrounded by six siblings, and dealing with the tragedy of losing one of them. It is a heartfelt and heartrending, intimate and reflective memoir. Hertzel takes the time to show all the small changes that made a profound impact on their lives, and allows the reader to feel the pain of the loss. It is completely relatable to any of us who have suffered the loss of someone important to us.

Hertzel's family didn't process the emotions of grief very well, and unfortunately I think this can often be true. Silence is a protective cloak that too many choose, and instead it feeds the trauma, buries the secrets, and leaves the people you love isolated.

“I don’t know a family that isn’t somehow haunted. By memories, by the stories we tell and those we don’t tell, by the empty spaces where someone once was — the lost friend, the estranged sibling, the loved one slipping away. Those empty spaces we fill with stories; those spaces where ghosts live.”

I enjoyed this memoir, finding it to be moving and honest.

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QOTD: Tell me about something small that you love -- not a person or people.

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#GhostsOfFourthStreet #LaurieHertzel #UnivOfMinnesotaPress #BooksAreMyThing

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It's been one week since my book launch event with @birchbark_books . One week since my book came.

As a child, my biggest dream was to be an author. I used to record observations, scribble out stories, craft poems. I might not have envisioned a an historical nonfiction book representing 10 years of research and writing, but I have always dreamed of telling stories. This (hi)story is a dream fulfilled.

I'm so grateful for all the support I and this project have received. I'm even more grateful to have spent the last decade of my life learning the histories of the extraordinary Ojibwe women at the center of my book. Their work shaped the place I was born and raised and they've shaped who I am today.

Miigwech to everyone who believed in this book. And an extra big miigwech to @thatcasualgayvampire for being event organizer extraordinaire and the very best friend anyone could ask for.

ID: a book and a microphone sit on a chair. The boon cover shows the Minneapolis skyline in a floral design and is titled "An Ojibwe Home in the City: White Earth Women and Community Organizing in Minneapolis."

ID: stacks of books sit on a table.

ID: an Ojibwe woman in a sweater is holding a microphone and talking to me, an Ojibwe woman in a long lace dress, in front of an audience.

ID: a bookseller in a Birchbark sweater is holding a book. The author is signing another copy of the book.

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In this beautiful story, an ancient grandmother red pine shares lessons of fire, renewal, and the deep connections between people and the land.
🔥 Anishinaabe teachings
🌲 The science of tree rings
📖 Ojibwe pronunciation guide + glossary
🌎 Lessons about restoration and caring for our ecosystems

#storyoffire #ashinaabe #picturebook

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Congratulations to one of our ASAP/17 Book Prize Honorable Mentions, Mark Minch-de Leon, for *Indigenous Inhumanities: California Indian Studies after the Apocalypse* (@uminnpress)!

*Indigenous Inhumanities* powerfully challenges overdetermined ideas of resistance, inclusion, justice, and representation through its bravura performance of Indigenous intellectual investigation. Conjuring the power of the dead, the book incorporates personal history in a way that is material, powerful, and deeply theoretical while animating an interdisciplinary archive spanning history, law, poetry, performance, and photography. Rooted in California Indian studies, the book also draws incisively on Black studies, queer theory and critiques of posthumanism and new materialism.

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Please join us for a CELEBRATION of the book release of Mississippi River Open School for Kinship and Social Exchange: Experimental Modes of Teaching and Learning for the Planetary Emergency (2026)!

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Wednesday,
October 28 6:30–8:30 p.m.

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Watershed Art & Ecology,
1821 S Racine Ave, Chicago 60608

A number of contributors will be present to introduce and talk about the book. There will also be a river-related mindfulness activity and a tarot reading for the Mississippi. Copies of the book will be for sale on site by Inga Bookshop.

Mississippi River Open School for Kinship and Social Exchange is an artist-designed book that draws from a growing archive of writing, activism, art, film, interviews, research, exhibitions, and more from over eight years of work on and along the Mississippi River from its headwaters to the gulf. A community-engaged public educational project, the Open School has collaboratively imagined and practiced experimental modes of learning and teaching for the planetary emergency. Contributors to this collection explore the Mississippi River as an interconnected ecological and cultural corridor to examine our collective past, present, and future.

*Concurrent to the event is the exhibition Watershed Cairns: Marking the Mississippi River Watershed from Libby Reuter (sculptor) and Joshua Rowan (photographer)

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Hello CHICAGO!

I will be in Chicago for a CELEBRATION of the book release of Mississippi River Open School for Kinship and Social Exchange / Experimental Modes of Teaching and Learning for the Planetary Emergency (2026).

WHEN: Wednesday, October 28 6:30–8:30 p.m.
WHERE: Watershed Art & Ecology, 1821 S Racine Ave, Chicago 60608

A number of contributors will be present to introduce and talk about the book. There will also be a river-related mindfulness activity and a tarot reading for the Mississippi. Copies of the book will be for sale on site by Inga Bookshop.

Mississippi River Open School for Kinship and Social Exchange is an artist-designed book that draws from a growing archive of writing, activism, art, film, interviews, research, exhibitions, and more from over eight years of work on and along the Mississippi River from its headwaters to the gulf. A community-engaged public educational project, the Open School has collaboratively imagined and practiced experimental modes of learning and teaching for the planetary emergency. Contributors to this collection explore the Mississippi River as an interconnected ecological and cultural corridor to examine our collective past, present, and future.

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Join me tomorrow, Tuesday, Oct 20 7 pm - Exit, Miss Saigon book event - I’ll be in conversation about my book with my good friend Alexs D. Pate at @magersandquinn

Free RSVP Link in the Bio or here - https://www.magersandquinn.com/event/David-Mura-presents-Exit,-Miss-Saigon/670

Exit, Miss Saigon is published by @uminnpress

#davidmuraauthor #exitmisssaigon #japaneseamerican #bookevent #memoir @whatkindofasianpod @kfaifmradio @mauriceruffin

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