Senior Publisher for STS, Digital/Medical Humanities and Literary Studies at Bloomsbury Academic. All long-winded, rambling views are my own.https://bsky.app/profile/bendoyle.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/bendoyle.bsky.social/post/3mvpn2cebn22xJacket 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.social17 Sep 2026 12:16 +0000at://did:plc:v23sgxdvb5ymq4yllvtmd2ou/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvpn2cebn22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/bendoyle.bsky.social/post/3mvpdwljcq22xIt'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: https://www.bloomsbury.com/black-feminist-theories-9781350446007/17 Sep 2026 09:33 +0000at://did:plc:v23sgxdvb5ymq4yllvtmd2ou/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvpdwljcq22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/bendoyle.bsky.social/post/3mvn34u4zk22jCannot BELIEVE this is 25 years old. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/podcasts/the-best-books-of-the-21st-century-taffy-brodesser-akner-on-the-corrections.html?smid=nytcore-android-share16 Sep 2026 11:50 +0000at://did:plc:v23sgxdvb5ymq4yllvtmd2ou/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvn34u4zk22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/bendoyle.bsky.social/post/3mvj2ijwmdk2bAccording 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... https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/us/politics/trump-ai-regulation-anthropic-dario-amodei.html?smid=nytcore-android-share14 Sep 2026 21:28 +0000at://did:plc:v23sgxdvb5ymq4yllvtmd2ou/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvj2ijwmdk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/bendoyle.bsky.social/post/3mvdpc42ns22xDogs>people12 Sep 2026 18:24 +0000at://did:plc:v23sgxdvb5ymq4yllvtmd2ou/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvdpc42ns22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/bendoyle.bsky.social/post/3mv5w3vghrs27New 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.social10 Sep 2026 11:10 +0000at://did:plc:v23sgxdvb5ymq4yllvtmd2ou/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv5w3vghrs27https://bsky.app/profile/bendoyle.bsky.social/post/3mv5s72wvc22cHad 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...10 Sep 2026 10:00 +0000at://did:plc:v23sgxdvb5ymq4yllvtmd2ou/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv5s72wvc22chttps://bsky.app/profile/bendoyle.bsky.social/post/3mv2x675bis2bYikes. [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Sep 2026 06:51 +0000at://did:plc:v23sgxdvb5ymq4yllvtmd2ou/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv2x675bis2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/bendoyle.bsky.social/post/3muypul6rbc2yCheck out this free to access issue of Persuasions on Jane Austen's Global Fan Cultures: https://jasna.org/publications-2/persuasions-online/volume-46-no-2/08 Sep 2026 09:35 +0000at://did:plc:v23sgxdvb5ymq4yllvtmd2ou/app.bsky.feed.post/3muypul6rbc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/bendoyle.bsky.social/post/3muylt2mvwc2yBig Bloomsbury news... https://www.thebookseller.com/news/bloomsbury-to-appoint-new-ceo-as-nigel-newton-becomes-executive-chairman?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Morning%20Briefing08 Sep 2026 08:23 +0000at://did:plc:v23sgxdvb5ymq4yllvtmd2ou/app.bsky.feed.post/3muylt2mvwc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/bendoyle.bsky.social/post/3mup5yxqdbs2kLovely excerpt from 'Vonnegut's War' in LitHub: https://lithub.com/on-the-fact-and-fiction-of-kurt-vonneguts-dresden/04 Sep 2026 14:22 +0000at://did:plc:v23sgxdvb5ymq4yllvtmd2ou/app.bsky.feed.post/3mup5yxqdbs2khttps://bsky.app/profile/bendoyle.bsky.social/post/3muocsxord22eThe 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. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/03/openai-artificial-general-intelligence-astra-release04 Sep 2026 06:15 +0000at://did:plc:v23sgxdvb5ymq4yllvtmd2ou/app.bsky.feed.post/3muocsxord22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/bendoyle.bsky.social/post/3mumgidl4fs2pA little slice of bluegrass delight https://open.spotify.com/album/6tcLBCFSo3nmGDiYq6opGu?si=ZM0Yi_lfSQO7qcfi96Lkiw&utm_source=native-share-menu03 Sep 2026 12:15 +0000at://did:plc:v23sgxdvb5ymq4yllvtmd2ou/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumgidl4fs2phttps://bsky.app/profile/bendoyle.bsky.social/post/3mulycm7zuc2zA few (hopefully) useful hints and tips on publishing your first monograph from me and several of my fab peers: https://modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/weird-modernisms-publishing-a-first-monograph-qa/03 Sep 2026 08:02 +0000at://did:plc:v23sgxdvb5ymq4yllvtmd2ou/app.bsky.feed.post/3mulycm7zuc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/bendoyle.bsky.social/post/3muh2yzqkes2cLovely feature on Vonnegut's War in Writer's Digest last week! https://www.writersdigest.com/10-things-writers-should-know-about-kurt-vonnegut Check out the @bloomsburylit.bsky.social book here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/vonneguts-war-9781350580015/01 Sep 2026 09:07 +0000at://did:plc:v23sgxdvb5ymq4yllvtmd2ou/app.bsky.feed.post/3muh2yzqkes2chttps://bsky.app/profile/bendoyle.bsky.social/post/3mtytslcetk2bYEAH NO SHIT BILL https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/technology/bill-gates-ai-risks.html?smid=nytcore-android-share26 Aug 2026 17:20 +0000at://did:plc:v23sgxdvb5ymq4yllvtmd2ou/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtytslcetk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/bendoyle.bsky.social/post/3mtvehq2j7k2sJust 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. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/connect/contact-us/tackling-fraud/25 Aug 2026 08:08 +0000at://did:plc:v23sgxdvb5ymq4yllvtmd2ou/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtvehq2j7k2shttps://bsky.app/profile/bendoyle.bsky.social/post/3mtqllxmavk2oAbsolutely LOVING the new Mystery Jets album. Shades of The Killers with a bit of Thom Yorke thrown in for good measure. https://open.spotify.com/track/7cAYoT1Ex4J2TazqmVQ8Rv?si=lm3CaJPzQy6Go_Zo02irQA&utm_source=native-share-menu23 Aug 2026 10:32 +0000at://did:plc:v23sgxdvb5ymq4yllvtmd2ou/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtqllxmavk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/bendoyle.bsky.social/post/3mtlhwqpyh225Fascinating blog piece from Susan Farrell on her new book 'Vonnegut's War'. Sometimes, truth is *almost* stranger than fiction: https://www.bloomsbury.com/discover/bloomsbury-academic/blog/featured/vonnegut-s-war-from-a-dresden-slaughterhouse-to-the-planet-tralfamadore/ https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/bloomsbury-academic/blog/featured/vonnegut-s-war-from-a-dresden-slaughterhouse-to-the-planet-tralfamadore/21 Aug 2026 09:43 +0000at://did:plc:v23sgxdvb5ymq4yllvtmd2ou/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtlhwqpyh225https://bsky.app/profile/bendoyle.bsky.social/post/3mtlhuvusq225Just 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 https://www.4sonline.org/meeting.php21 Aug 2026 09:42 +0000at://did:plc:v23sgxdvb5ymq4yllvtmd2ou/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtlhuvusq225https://bsky.app/profile/bendoyle.bsky.social/post/3mtixsjtzzc2qLast 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. https://www.bloomsbury.com/vonneguts-war-9781350580008/ https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/vonneguts-war-9781350580008/20 Aug 2026 09:49 +0000at://did:plc:v23sgxdvb5ymq4yllvtmd2ou/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtixsjtzzc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/bendoyle.bsky.social/post/3mtixpfeqek2qAlso 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. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/intergenerational-modernism-9781350470071/20 Aug 2026 09:48 +0000at://did:plc:v23sgxdvb5ymq4yllvtmd2ou/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtixpfeqek2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/bendoyle.bsky.social/post/3mtixbqgths2qIn 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 https://www.bloomsbury.com/literary-treason-9781350406919/ https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/literary-treason-9781350406919/20 Aug 2026 09:40 +0000at://did:plc:v23sgxdvb5ymq4yllvtmd2ou/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtixbqgths2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/bendoyle.bsky.social/post/3mtix5i6pzs2qNext 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? https://www.bloomsbury.com/beyond-modernism-9781350536432/ https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/beyond-modernism-9781350536432/20 Aug 2026 09:38 +0000at://did:plc:v23sgxdvb5ymq4yllvtmd2ou/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtix5i6pzs2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/bendoyle.bsky.social/post/3mtix34bkn22qA 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: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/reading-with-hannah-arendt-9781350560154/20 Aug 2026 09:36 +0000at://did:plc:v23sgxdvb5ymq4yllvtmd2ou/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtix34bkn22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/bendoyle.bsky.social/post/3mtgyosmjas2qOut tomorrow...Indy book of the month! 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