Cameron M. Ludwick

Very late reply-guy here, but also! Pitching reviews of others' books to review outlets makes your name more recognizable to those editors when you're own authored book comes around...

We are very excited for this partnership!

How are you NOT going to put a photo of the actual curator of the Met exhibition and author of the book it’s based on in your 200+ photo gallery of the #MetGala red carpet???? (Monica looks amazing, and the book is too!) store.metmuseum.org/slaves-to-fa...

Living in Austin means having a full weekend of Willie Nelson jams on @kutx.bsky.social for his 92nd Birthday. (This is not a complaint.)

Holler if we can send you a book on the previous NAFTA-induced sex panic ;) (Free trade is sexually liberatory!) dukeupress.edu/queer-traffic

One thing from the frontlines of #AWP25 –there are still SO MANY misconceptions about @aupresses.bsky.social publishing! Y’all! We’re out here doing everything your favorite trade publisher is doing (and probably more!)

I hope you’ll come say hello at the @dukepress.bsky.social booth at #AWP25

(BOOTH #1007)

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India Is on a Hiring Binge That Trump’s Tariffs Can’t Stop An abundance of motivated young professionals is luring American businesses to base their global operations in Indian cities.

This @nytimes.com story will get overshadowed by…everything else…but one day the wider trade will realize that UP books (like @dukepress.bsky.social’s THE FUTURE OF FUTURITY www.dukeupress.edu/the-future-o...) will always be the best stop for understanding the world www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/b...

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Kentucky State student vows to fight for scholarship stopped by Elon Musk, Donald Trump | Opinion Linda Blackford: Anthony Jackson Jr., of Lexington is one of 94 students to win a prestigious 1890 National Scholar award now put on pause at U.S. Department of Agriculture.

It’s not just federal employees being trashed. It’s nearly impossible to imagine the extent of how defunding and threats of defunding are affecting so many people all across the nation, indeed around the world. @lblackford.bsky.social

I love to sworp about (and be hootin’ and hollerin’)

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Please Stop Bashing Book Publishing I didn’t think I’d write a newsletter while bogged down with work and a final project for my MBA program, but here we are. This is not going to be a missive. Instead, I want to point out some things a...

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And BTW, Letitia is running a course for academic authors called "Becoming a Better Editor of Your Own Work," and it looks fabulous! Registration is still open: shortishard.teachable.com/p/becoming-a...

Who’s got the essay on #CruiseTok and Platinum Badges as the mutant viral offshoots of Colonialism+ White Privilege + Capitalist Hell?

Oh my gosh, it’s like I can’t think of any other words except SLOPE!

The best moment!

Sorry to be that person, buuuttt…💅

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Are all the publishing peeps getting tix to American Fiction for the first weekend???

The only acceptable answer is “I’m working on the next one.” (Other variants, if applicable: I got a contract for the next one.)

JOBS🚨: Wayne State University is hiring up to 50 Assistant/Associate/Full Professors of Black Studies to join our new Detroit Center for Black Studies.
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Texas GOP Rejects Ban on Association with Nazis It’s the latest instance of the state Republican party's right-wing officialdom embracing extremism, and vengeance, above all else.

Recently, a majority of the Texas State Republican Executive Committee voted to remove language from a resolution affirming support for Israel that would have prohibited party associations with people and groups “known to espouse or tolerate antisemitism pro-Nazi sympathies or Holocaust denial.”

Those boots are 🔥!

I got you! Shoot me a quick note to my new email, Cameron.ludwick @ Duke dot edu and I’ll make sure you’re on the publicist’s list!