Ben Doyle
@bendoyle.bsky.social
Senior Publisher for STS, Digital/Medical Humanities and Literary Studies at Bloomsbury Academic. All long-winded, rambling views are my own.
Jacket spread for the @bloomsburylit.bsky.social new Blue Humanities handbook now finalized. Doesn't it look lovely?! 600 pages of some of the finest folks working in the field. It's the most comprehensive overview to date. What an achievement! @stevementz.bsky.social @serpiloppermann.bsky.social
It's finally here - publication day for Black Feminist Theories from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social ! Please share far and wide - this is essential reading for anyone teaching the topic, or simply interested. Available in paperback, it's 456 exciting, stirring pages: www.bloomsbury.com/black-femini...
According to him, the AI industry already has the only guardrail it needs: “a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT.” Well, that's MY concerns about the techopalypse completely assuaged then... www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...
Trump Rejects Talk of A.I. Regulation and Calls Out Anthropic’s CEO
The president again rejected calls to try to regulate the industry, even as some of its leaders are speaking more openly about the risks of rapidly developing artificial intelligence.
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New addition to our burgeoning Science, Technology and Society' list - 'Green Dreams: Why Technology Can't Save the World' just dropped onto my desk! Working on something STS-shaped? Please drop me a line! @imreszeman.bsky.social @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social
Had an enthusiastic 'thumbs up' from the peer reviewer for our forthcoming 'Bloomsbury Handbook to the Plant Humanities', which promises to be AWESOME & will sit beautifully beside @stevementz.bsky.social, @serpiloppermann.bsky.social et al's Blue Humanities handbook. ToC sneak peek below...
"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.
Check out this free to access issue of Persuasions on Jane Austen's Global Fan Cultures: jasna.org/publications...
Volume 46, No 2
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Big Bloomsbury news... www.thebookseller.com/news/bloomsb...
Bloomsbury to appoint new CEO as Nigel Newton becomes executive chairman
Bloomsbury has unveiled a “five-year leadership succession plan” that will see a new CEO appointed in two years, with founder and CEO Nigel Newton becoming executive chairman now.
thebookseller.com
Lovely excerpt from 'Vonnegut's War' in LitHub: lithub.com/on-the-fact-...
On the Fact and Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut’s Dresden
Kurt Vonnegut describes the train arriving in Dresden at five o’clock that afternoon: “The boxcar doors were opened, and the doorways framed the loveliest city that most of the Americans had ever s…
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The relentless march of 'progress' towards a future I'm not sure many of us would vote for. But march on we will, because the billionaire technocrats intent on self-enrichment and power consolidation say so. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
OpenAI hails ‘new era of artificial general intelligence’ with Astra model release
Astra’s arrival comes days after Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, described AGI as an ‘irrelevant marketing term’
theguardian.com
A few (hopefully) useful hints and tips on publishing your first monograph from me and several of my fab peers: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/w...
Weird Modernisms: Publishing a First Monograph Q&A
28 August 2026 Interviewer: Lily Martin, Keele University Respondents: Molly Beck, Executive Editor for Literature at Palgrave Macmillan; Ben Doyle, Senior Publisher for STS, Digital and Medical Hu…
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Lovely feature on Vonnegut's War in Writer's Digest last week! www.writersdigest.com/10-things-wr... Check out the @bloomsburylit.bsky.social book here: www.bloomsbury.com/vonneguts-wa...
10 Things Writers Should Know About Kurt Vonnegut
Author Susan Farrell shares 10 things writers should know about Kurt Vonnegut, author of Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle.
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Think you know Kurt Vonnegut? In this post for @writersdigest.bsky.social, Vonnegut's War author Susan Farrell shares 10 things writers should know about the iconic author of Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat’s Cradle. www.writersdigest.com/10-things-wr...
10 Things Writers Should Know About Kurt Vonnegut
Author Susan Farrell shares 10 things writers should know about Kurt Vonnegut, author of Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle.
writersdigest.com
Just another 'heads up' that there are unscrupulous scammers out there impersonating Bloomsbury editors. Please disregard ANY emails purporting to come from me that aren't from ben.doyle@bloomsbury.com. Just had another couple of people report this. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/connect/c...
Bloomsbury Fraud Alert | Fraud in publishing - Bloomsbury
We are aware of reports that fraudsters are impersonating Bloomsbury staff, literary agents and Bloomsbury authors in an attempt to target writers, illustrators and others in the wider publishing comm...
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Absolutely LOVING the new Mystery Jets album. Shades of The Killers with a bit of Thom Yorke thrown in for good measure. open.spotify.com/track/7cAYoT...
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Mystery Jets · A Hole To See The Sky Through · Song · 2026
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Fascinating blog piece from Susan Farrell on her new book 'Vonnegut's War'. Sometimes, truth is *almost* stranger than fiction: www.bloomsbury.com/discover/blo...
Vonnegut’s War: From a Dresden slaughterhouse to the Planet Tralfamadore | Susan Farrell on The Making of Slaughterhouse-Five
How did a Dresden slaughterhouse and a 1960s alien abduction case shape Kurt Vonnegut's literary masterpiece? In this blog post, Susan Farrell explores the gripping real history and cultural context b...
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Just registered for the 4S conference in Toronto in October. First STS conference ever for me and I can't wait to get stuck in. If you're attending, or know anyone that's attending, please drop me a line as it'd be great to see some friendly faces in Toronto! www.4sonline.org/meeting.php
Meeting
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Last but not least from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social - one I've banged on about a lot already - 'Vonnegut's War', an Independent book of the month, it tells the fascinating story of the making of a modern classic and the writer that created it. www.bloomsbury.com/vonneguts-wa...
Vonnegut’s War
Banned, burned, and censored, Kurt Vonnegut's 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five is widely regarded as one of the greatest (and most controversial) novels of the tw…
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Also from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social 'Intergenerational Modernism', a study of cross-generational literary networks in interwar Britain which investigates how writers in the 1930s emerged from the shadow of their older modernist contemporaries. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/intergene...
Intergenerational Modernism
A study of cross-generational literary networks in interwar Britain, this book investigates how writers in the 1930s emerged from the shadow of their older mode…
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In paperback from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social AND available open access, Literary Treason, which outlines how prominent authors and intellectuals were singled out by national courts in the wake of the WWII, for the crime of expressing opinions, both in print & radio www.bloomsbury.com/literary-tre...
Literary Treason
Can you commit treason by “mere words”? “Do civilized peoples shoot their poets?” Are there limits to free expression? Grappling with these questions, this open…
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Next up from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social is 'Beyond Modernism'. Underlining (and undermining) the notion of literary merit, this book focuses on noncanonical works and asks: what happens when we look away from modernism? www.bloomsbury.com/beyond-moder...
Beyond Modernism
Underlining (and undermining) the notion of literary merit, this book focuses on noncanonical works and asks: what happens when we look away from modernism? See…
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A very happy publication day to a few @bloomsburylit.bsky.social books today! First up, 'Reading with Hannah Arendt', examines Arendt's work by putting it in conversation with a series of literary works from writers such as Melville, Brecht, Conrad, and Sarraute: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/reading-w...
Reading with Hannah Arendt
One of the first books to examine Hannah Arendt's work by putting it in conversation with a series of literary works from writers such as Melville, Brecht, Conr…
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'None of these marine mammals were historically found here as they have been locked out of the coastal waters by ice. Now, as climate change warms the sea and melts that ice, they have adapted.'
Giant whales move into Greenland waters as ice disappears
Melting sea ice from climate change has opened up the region for giant whales to undertake "feeding frenzies".
bbc.co.uk
Out tomorrow...Indy book of the month!
Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing@bloomsburylit.bsky.social · last mo.“Professor Susan Farrell neatly pieces together how Vonnegut created a modern classic whose anti-war message remains as relevant as ever.” Vonnegut’s War: The Making of Slaughterhouse-Five (out 20th Aug) is a @the-independent.com book of the month! #AcademicSky #LitStudies https://bit.ly/4yZyWWm
Nick's book is fabulous and deserves many eyeballs, so please go download it for free at the link in the note below!
Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing@bloomsburylit.bsky.social · last mo.Introducing our #openaccess book of the month: Neurodiversity and the Contemporary in the 21st-Century Novel. Read it online via Bloomsbury Collections: https://bit.ly/4wlbOik
