Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing

Happy #InternationalCatDay from the Literary Studies & Creative Writing team! Our feline friends are getting plenty of summer reading in. 😻 📚

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Copies of Island stacked atop the spines of older books

ISLAND’s first summer continues! Take it to the island, the beach, the lake, the sofa! Anywhere you can revel in glorious isolation! 🏝️ 📖

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Jacket is green with the title and subtitle in pink text. The jacket is covered with small blue illustrated icons relating to weather (umbrellas, ice lollies, wellington boots, sunglasses etc). There is an endorsement from Naomi Klein in the top right hand corner which reads 'This eye-opening, body-connecting thought experiment provides a blueprint for an embodied approach to climate change.'

Just glorying once again in the jacket for @bloomsburylit.bsky.social book 'How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change' by Astrida Neimanis and Jen Hamilton, now complete with a LOVELY endorsement from the utterly amazing Naomi Klein.
www.bloomsbury.com/how-to-weath...

If you enjoy audiobooks read by the author, don't miss @jeffjarvis.bsky.social's engaging history of the magazine.

Learn more: bit.ly/46uQsGd
Find it on Audible: adbl.co/4ocgq7K 🎧📚

#litstudies #mediastudies @bloomsburylit.bsky.social

My book Teenage Time comes out August 21st from Bloomsbury: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/teenage-t... Here it is!

Copies of Cocaine Literature and Culture 1876-1930, in a paper packing box. The cover features a woman with a short bob and fashionable 1920s dress with the word ‘cocaine’ above her head

A lovely surprise in the post today.

It seems that ‘Cocaine, Literature and Culture’ is now available in paperback!

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New in the Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life series!

Based on close readings of three major sitcoms, this book unpacks how sitcoms understand later life sexualities and focusses on how they represent sexually active older adults.

📘 bit.ly/4kCaKRv

Our summer book sale continues this week with up to 30% off #drama, performance studies and literary studies books!

📚💙 Browse now: bit.ly/4f1lGqQ

#nonfiction #broadway #Shakespeare #theater #AcWri

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"There were surprises around every corner. That was one of the real pleasures of working on this book."

Read an interview with Steven Belletto, author of 'Black Surrealist' ⤵️

beatstudies.org/surprises-ar...

#tedjoans #beatgeneration #surrealism

'Trespassing in the Archive: Poetry in Conversation with History' is out now!

An exploration in the ways in which poetry has offered a hypothetical testing ground where the power dynamics, upheavals, and discontent reflected in historical texts can be renegotiated.

📙 bit.ly/4eEPcCh

'Song Lyrics and Literary History' is out now!

Paving new paths for the study of the history of literature, this study explores the intricate networks of one single poem across two centuries – the 'Vårvindar friska', a poem meant to be sung.

📗 bit.ly/40O9eEH

Book titled Cat by Rebecca van laer, in the paws of my tuxedo cat

Up next for me: CAT by Rebecca van Laer, a slim lil nonfic title in the Object Lessons series. (Modeled by my cat, Wasabi) #ewgc

@bloomsburylit.bsky.social are now boarding to Lisbon for the #adho25 conference - excited to talk DH for the next week! Interested in meeting to discuss a project? PLEASE swing by the stand!

New post in the Research Spotlight series on our blog!

B L Jayadev provides an overview of his research on addiction memoirs and the impact this literary form can have on scholars and practitioners.

💻 bloomsburyliterarystudiesblog.com/2025/07/beyo...

#AcademicSky #AcademiaSky #phdlife

🎧 Have you heard? 11 Object Lessons audiobooks are now available on Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Blackface • Bookshelf • Earth • High Heel • Hood • Hotel • Magazine • Shopping Mall • Silence • Souvenir • Stroller

'Excavating the Historical Memory of the American Revolution' is out now!

A close reading of Charles Anthon’s personal notes, studying the persistence of the American Revolutionary memory and the indelible link between landscape and memory.

📘 bit.ly/3TwklOE

The Bloomsbury Handbook to F. Scott Fitzgerald Bringing together leading voices from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to F. Scott Fitzgerald presents state-of-the-art scholarship on the renowned Jaz…

Lovely review of @bloomsburylit.bsky.social new F Scott Fitzgerald handbook in @thetls.bsky.social - “...a treasure trove of new scholarly work on the author.” Check out the handbook here: www.bloomsbury.com/bloomsbury-h...

We need diverse #YA #VerseNovels by @DeanAtta incl. 2025 release, I can't even think straight. Read Dean's interview in DiVERSE Conversations with YA & Chn's Verse Novelists @bloomsburylit.bsky.social @lgbtqreads.bsky.social @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social @yalsa.bsky.social @ulenglish.bsky.social

Remembering the Great Manuel Puig, Cosmopolitan Chronicler of the Everyday Puig is a common surname in Spanish, with a Catalan etymology that means “hill” and was pronounced as “pweeg” not as “puch” because, as South Americans, his family used Castilian rather than Catala…

Suzanne Jill Levine on Knowing and Translating One of Latin America’s Finest 20th-Century Writers

An excerpt from her new book, Unfaithful: A Translator’s Memoir

lithub.com/remembering-...

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#AcademicPublishing
#TranslationStudies
#TranslatorStudies

"Belletto draws attention to Joans as a poet and artist while demonstrating that the two identities cannot be disentangled..."

Read a review of 'Black Surrealist: The Legend of Ted Joans' in The Poetry Foundation ⤵️

www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/169...

#tedjoans #beatgeneration #surrealism

Banner of various Object Lessons book covers, with the text: '6 tips for writing an Object Lessons book proposal / Ian Bogost and Christopher Schaberg on the power of short books'

Got a burning idea for the next brilliant book in our Object Lessons series?

Today on the blog, find 6 tips for making your book proposal a success, courtesy of series editors Ian Bogost @ibogost.bsky.social and Christopher Schaberg: bit.ly/4euQfEK

Really excited to share that Áine Larkin and I have signed a book contract with Bloomsbury for an edited volume titled:

The Hospital in Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures: Reimagining Healthcare Environments

Eliot Now Over a dozen new volumes of T. S. Eliot's poetry, prose, and letters have been published in the past decade. This collection presents unabashedly fresh approach…

A brilliant review of 'Eliot Now' from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social in Eliot Annual: 'these two critics have again generously redrawn the boundaries of the field of Eliot studies.' Grab a copy of the paperback here: www.bloomsbury.com/eliot-now-97...

Out now: Representing the New AI in Film and Television

Explore the radical changes in this industry & today's most pressing debates, including gender representation, AI ethics, and the rights of artificially intelligent beings.

📕 bit.ly/42VZiL2

#artificialintelligence #AI #film #television

'A Fiction Writer’s Guide to Peace' is out today!

This guide shows writers how they can enact non-violent heroism in their characters, model civil resistance in their stories, and create worlds around mythos that champion redemptive nonviolence.

📙 bit.ly/4khdCDC

Join Clive Bloom at the Chelsea History Festival for a journey into Gothic London, where fiction and the occult blur with the city’s shadowy past based on his book London Uncanny.

🗓️ Sun 28 Sept 2025, 4–5pm (BST)
🔗 chelseaheritagequarter.co.uk/chf/london-u...

Out now: Reading Kafka in Prague

An untold history of Franz Kafka's readership in his homeland under two totalitarian regimes, from his death in 1924 to 1989.

More info: bit.ly/3SzaIOE

#kafka #literarystudies

Out now: Sex and Nation in Transatlantic Literatures

An exploration of transatlantic, postcolonial literatures that resist rigid definitions of national belonging and sexualities from Ireland and Senegal to South Africa, the US, and Poland

More info: bit.ly/4iY0imw

A huge congratulations to @genni.bsky.social!

Learn more about "Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction" here: bit.ly/4ndBMB9 📚💙

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Congrats to the 2025 Mythopoeic Awards Finalists!

Award for Inklings Studies:
🏆Mapping Middle-earth
🏆J.R.R. Tolkien’s Utopianism and the Classics

Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies:
🏆Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival

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