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Ken Wissoker
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Senior Executive Editor, Duke University Press. Director, Intellectual Publics, CUNY Graduate Center. Book doula/curator. Art lover, record accumulator. All opinions my own-ish.
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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · Nov 7
I was interviewed by Lisa Regan on the The Academic Publishing Podcast about publishing finances -- everything from why a press might want a subvention to why the system as a whole in in big trouble if everyone goes for the free pdf and no one is paying for the books themselves. She had smart Q's!
Ken Wissoker on Finances
Ken Wissoker is Senior Executive Editor at Duke University Press where, since arriving in 1991, he has published over 1400 books. Ken acquires books across the humanities, social sciences, and the art...
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ndhapple.bsky.social
Making sure a Variety editor knows that a chia pet ad ended up airing in prime time on WCBS is a god tier level of knife twisting.
bristei.bsky.social Brian Steinberg @bristei.bsky.social · 1d
Major advertisers appeared to sit out a new CBS News town hall telecast Saturday, moderated by Bari Weiss and featuring an interview with Erika Kirk.

Lack of Madison Avenue support could challenge the viability of the format, which Weiss wants to expand

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Big Advertisers Appear Wary of CBS News’ Bari Weiss Town Hall Format
Many major advertisers appeared to sit out a new CBS News town hall format moderated by Bari Weiss and featuring a conversation with Erika Kirk
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December 14, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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creativeresistance.bsky.social
The New School was founded by Columbia University professors who wanted a university run by the faculty with minimal administration. For over 100 years it has been a unique institution with progressive values and incredible students and faculty from Ai Weiwei to Hannah Arendt. We are devastated.
newschoolaaup.bsky.social The New School AAUP @newschoolaaup.bsky.social · 1d
Last week, the New School issued voluntary separation & early retirement offers to 40% of the full-time faculty & the majority of non-union staff. These cuts to the bone are an ideological attempt to decimate historic spaces of critical inquiry & social justice. Share our statement tr.ee/qQBIDCpIuj
OFFICIAL Statement from AAUP-TNS on Cuts to Faculty and Staff 12-9-25
The New School - Austerity Cuts to the Bone A Statement from the Leadership Council of AAUP-TNS On December 3, 2025, New School President Joel Towers and Provost Richard Kessler issued voluntary sep...
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December 14, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Loving Black Boys is available for presale!!
For 30% off, please use the code E26LOMAX.
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Loving Black Boys: A Black Feminist Bible on Racism and Revolutionary Mothering
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December 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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NEW: Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism

An investigation by ProPublica and @chronicle.com reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.
Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence that UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism
An investigation by ProPublica and The Chronicle of Higher Education reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.
www.propublica.org
December 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Trump lackeys tried to gin up evidence against UCLA. UC system honchos were too afraid to put up full resistance. The @aaup.org stepped in and filed a suit that had the judge come down on the Trump lackeys like a ton of bricks. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
December 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Peruvian nation-building has been characterised by unending frustration. Books in brief review: Modern Peru: A New History, Paulo Drinot and Alberto Vergara (eds) @paulodrinot @DukePress #Peru #politics #nationalism #history #LatinAmericanStudies latamrob.substack.com/p/andean-sis...
Andean Sisyphus
Peruvian nation-building has been characterised by unending frustration. Books in brief: Modern Peru: A New History, Paulo Drinot and Alberto Vergara (eds), by Gavin O'Toole
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December 12, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Settler colonialism oppresses every aspect of Mapuche life—including sound. Books in brief review: Acoustic Colonialism: Acts of Mapuche Interference, Luis E Cárcamo-Huechante @DukePress #Chile #Argentina #Mapuche #SoundStudies #LatinAmericanStudies latamrob.substack.com/p/the-noise-...
The noise of liberation
Settler colonialism oppresses every aspect of Mapuche life—including sound. Books in brief: Acoustic Colonialism: Acts of Mapuche Interference, Luis E Cárcamo-Huechante, by Gavin O'Toole
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December 12, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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dukepress.bsky.social
In "Curating Deviance," Marc Francis rekindles queer utopian imaginaries by studying how, from the 1960s to 1980s, a cadre of programmers and art house theaters brought together a dizzying array of deviant films to create a queer repertory film canon. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/PTjtgDs
Cover of Curating Deviance: Programming the Queer Film Canon by Marc Francis. The cover is solid orange red with a rectangular cut out centered right that displays part of a cinema section of a newspaper. The media shows photographs of films and blurbs as well as showtimes. The title is written in a white sans serif font across the cover. The subtitle appears below aligned left in black. The author’s name is in the bottom right corner in white.
December 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Looking for a book for the music lover in your life? We’ve got you covered. With a wide selection of music writing, we’ll have the perfect gift

Browse more: buff.ly/FEDRIRi

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December 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Bay Area People! One month from tomorrow I'll be at City Lights Books, talking Art History, Kink, and Queerness with my bestie Jarrett Earnest ( and also signing books) please come and see us! @citylightsbooks.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social
Nayland Blake in conversation with Jarrett Earnest | City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
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December 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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dukepress.bsky.social
Thanks for including "Speculative Light" and "After Caliban" on this great list!
hyperallergic.com Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 3d
While 2025 might be drawing to a close, the art books we read this year — from Imani Perry’s “Black in Blues” to “Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury” — will stay with us for a long time to come.
Our Favorite Art Books of 2025
This year, we read too many incredible books to count — here are a few that stuck with us, including tomes on Marsha P. Johnson, Mary Cassatt in Paris, and Ruth Asawa and mothering.
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December 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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The Alchemy Lectures are some beautiful books. Highly recommend @dukepress.bsky.social
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A photograph of three books horizontally placed side by side. The book ‘Borders, Human Itineraries, and All Our Relation’ is chartreuse The book ‘The City of Our dreaming’ is red The book ‘Five Manifestos for the Beautiful world’ is blue
December 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Hello, it’s me: the person who is about to launch book two and racing to wrap up book three 😬

Pleased to report I hit 50K today and I am feeling good

I think *The Cosmos is a Black Aesthetic* might be a banger 👀

(Under contract with @dukepress.bsky.social!)
ALAIN LOCKE THE NEW NEGRO AESTHETIC PENGUIN CLASSICS W. E.B. DU BOIS THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK PENGUIN CLASSICS bell hooks Art on My Mind Gooding-Williams DEMOCRACY and BEAUTY COLUMBIA CHARTING THE AFROFUTURIST IMAGINARY IN AFRICAN AMERICAN ART Elizabeth Carmel Hamilton GATES & JARRETT HIANAWINKGRO Routledge PRINCETON MOLESWORTH The Works of ALAIN LOCKE OXFORD STEWART THE NEW NEGRO THE LIFE OF ALAIN LOCKE OXFORD
December 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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dukepress.bsky.social
In "Protein," Samantha King and Gavin Weedon trace how protein moves through food systems and fitness cultures, strengthening some bodies and environments at the expense of others. Read the intro to @proteinthebook.bsky.social for free now! @proteinthebook.bsky.social buff.ly/6N115oP
Cover of Protein: The Making of a Nutritional Superstar by Samantha King and Gavin Weedon. The cover is black featuring a jar at the bottom with a golden brown powder exploding from it. The powder extends from the top of the cover down to the jar. There is a measuring scoop filled with powder that rests on the bottle’s opening. The title is centered in a white serif font. The subtitle is in all caps in a sans serif font to the right. The authors’ names are below in the same font as the title.
December 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Save 30% on #NewBook "The Invention of Order," in which Don Thomas Deere retraces the colonial origins of spatial organization in the Americas and the Caribbean and its lasting impact on modern structures of knowledge, power, race, and gender. #LatinAmStudies #PostcolonialTheory buff.ly/G60iAfG
Cover of The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space by Don Thomas Deere. The central image is a sculpture composed of irregular, interlocking dark wooden panels, some inscribed with words such as “FORTIA,” “ABSTRACTO,” and “CONCRETO.” The book title is superimposed in white serif type across the lower panels of the sculpture.
December 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Join us as we “reflect on what bringing abolitionist and ant- imperial geographies together in post-socialist contexts can do. Just as global capital connections mapped the Siliconizing moment, other connections scaffold the very possibilities of unbecoming Silicon Valley.”
December 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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dukepress.bsky.social
"Lyric beyond Containment," a special issue of differences edited by Sarah Dowling and Claire Grandy, is now available. View the TOC, read the intro, and "The Americanity of the 'American Lyric',"all freely available: buff.ly/3RkT2Hv
Cover of Differences journal issue with yellow background, horizontal gray band, title Lyric beyond Containment, and contributor names listed.
December 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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"In sum, Guariglia’s book is an important contribution to the history of policing, setting a standard about how to highlight the crucial role of race and ethnicity for future research." @sarahfren.bsky.social on @mguariglia.bsky.social's Police and the Empire City
Policing NYC: A Review of “Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York”
Guariglia, Matthew. Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing. Duke University Press, 2023. Editor’s note: In the interest of full disclosure, Matthew Guariglia form…
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December 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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A new analysis found that 80% of 45 anti-trans groups in the U.S. have received funding from fossil fuel companies or billionaires, including Shell and Anschutz.

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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Fossil fuel wealth fuels surge in anti-trans legislation, new analysis shows - EHN
A recent investigation reveals that most major anti-trans organizations in the U.S. receive financial support from fossil fuel interests, intertwining climate obstruction with attacks on LGBTQIA+ rights.Yessenia Funes reports for HEATED and Atmos.In short:A new analysis found that 80% of 45 anti-tra...
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December 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Focusing on Frederick Douglass’s “A Trip to Hayti” (1861) and the first installment of James Theodore Holly’s “Thoughts on Hayti” (1859), this essay examines the strategic idealization of Haiti in mid-nineteenth-century African American propaganda.

Read @ Duke tinyurl.com/37wzebzz
December 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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have been super stoked to read this one.
As If!: Queer Criticism Across Difference
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December 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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"Crossing the Indian Ocean: The Oceanic Flow of Cultures and Ideas," a special issue of Monsoon, is now available. View the TOC and read "Carved Doors as Afro-Arab-Asian Creative Congruence" made freely available: buff.ly/hti16pc
Cover of Monsoon showing a blue and green seascape with a collage of figures on a tilting boat and text about crossing the Indian Ocean.
December 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Save 30% on #NewBook "In the Mood for Texture" by Arnika Fuhrmann, which considers the revival of Chinese pasts and the aesthetics of colonial modernity in contemporary Southeast Asian cultural production. #FilmStudies #AsianStudies
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Cover of In the Mood for Texture by Arnika Fuhrmann. The cover photograph depicts two people dressed simply in black and white seated at a metal table and chairs in the courtyard of a glass and concrete building. The title appears in large white letters at the top left of the cover, and the subtitle in smaller black text just below. The author's name appears to the right of the subtitle in capitalized white letters.
December 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Enormous gratitude to our colleagues on the selection committee at the MLA for their fine taste!

Seriously tho, I never in a million years expected my translation to receive a mention or a prize. Feeling grateful 😊
Screenshot of a webpage from the Modern Language Association announcing the Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work 2024 Winners.
December 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Save 30% on #NewBook "Indigenous Archives," by Floridalma Boj Lopez, which examines how Mayas in diaspora actively forge Indigenous belonging in the face of displacement from their ancestral homelands. #IndigenousStudies #LatinxStudies buff.ly/l9Oclko
Cover of Indigenous Archives: The Maya Diaspora and Mobile Cultural Production by Floridalma Boj Lopez. The cover features a photograph of two young Mayan women wearing traditional clothing sitting on steps. Below this is solid purple with the title written in white in all caps. A yellow line separates the title and subtitle. The subtitle is written smaller in white. Below is the author's name italicized and written in all caps.
December 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM