Nick Sturm

meditations in a veggie medley

Announcing the 2026 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. For the tenth year in a row, Literary Hub is pleased to announce the opening of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, which awards $1,000 to an American woman, aged 30 or younger, to acknowled…

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Joe Brainard comics party--tonight tonight tonight

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Joe Brainard comics party--tonight tonight tonight

infinity of butthole logos

still waiting for intelligent longform cultural criticism with psychomarxist explanation of the "everything is butthole" logorrhea in the AI space

Is there a crew of Arts Management scholars on Bluesky? Can you help me find them, please?!

then went here

just finished the first full manuscript of my book at 105k words sitting at a library desk at UW-Madison 😭😭😭

Joe Brainard's "The Complete C Comics": A Panel Discussion The Network for New York School Studies (NNYSS) hosts a panel discussion about Joe Brainard's "The Complete C Comics," published by NYRB.

Joe Brainard's "The Complete C Comics": A Panel Discussion

a free Zoom event hosted by the Network for New York School Studies, this Tuesday March 3 at 6:30pm EST

with Tyhe Cooper, David Hobbs, & Tausif Noor!

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we have a winner

1970s letterhead really hits

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

the utter joy of traveling to a gold mine history of small press publishing archive &--with all of the papers perfectly arranged in each folder--recognizing you're the first researcher to consult them

Yes, I remember when I had my first child and had to build 30 data centers to feed them.

wondering if Philip would let me quote those lyrics in the acknowledgements, or have a release event a suburban bowling alley

it's giving "Graduation (Friends Forever)" by Vitamin C

starting to write the conclusion to this book, I'm having this fizzy feeling in the back of my head that's weirdly similar to what I remember the last months of senior year feeling like

If you're in the Triangle area, the @post45.bsky.social grad symposium is happening tomorrow and Saturday, organized by the excellent Julia Gordon and @cassandraluca.bsky.social. Plus, a talk by me and a roundtable on sociality and the university!

Mellon collaborating to step into the vacuum left by the zombified NEA.

Poet A. B. Spellman helped to build the NEA's Jazz Masters Fellowship during a long career working for the endowment.

Not enough people are acknowledging that Xander had to re-read "The Catcher in the Rye" to write this. Huge win for my HS English teacher, Mr. Decker.

Finished reading this & (to state the obvious) it's highly recommended. The discussion of theme is especially valuable. I also v. much enjoy the image of high school English as the separated fraternal twin of university literary studies.

High School English and the Making of American Readers Abstract. The high school English classroom is the most influential literary institution in the United States, and the most overlooked by literary scholars

As some of you may know, I’m writing a book on the history of high school English in the United States, and I’m excited to share a new article from that project—“High School English and the Making of American Readers”—out today in American Literary History! 🧵

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The First Draft Symposium: Developing The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary Editing 13 February 2026 Venue: Zoom (single link for the full day; registration required) Paper lengths: 15 minutes

Me & @benfried.bsky.social are co-editing the Bloomsbury Handbook to Literary Editing - it'll be a while before this appears, but we're excited to work on it!

Tomorrow we're running an online symposium where some contributors will test out material - if you're interested in joining, DM for details

Book open to first two pages reads MACHINES which seem to think Marie Neurath Max Parrish London

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Does humanities research matter anymore? (opinion) The rapid collapse in available research funding is one crisis in the humanities we aren’t talking enough about, Asheesh Kapur Siddique writes.

It's possible to do a non-reactionary critique of the current landscape of humanities research funding: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Olivier Zunz's "Philanthropy in America: A History"; Linsey McGoey's "No Such Thing as a Free Gift"; Emma Saunders-Hastings's "Private Virtues, Public Vices"

I study the history of arts funding, literary institutions, and philanthropy. Unless you're happy with the author's culture wars agenda, it's obvious that article is not a good faith criticism of institutional power.

No, thanks. Sounds like you're eager to take up the article's focus on Alexander as both appropriate & intellectually worthwhile. I'm not. This is a Federalist Society white paper masquerading as journalism in the Atlantic.