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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Instead of smashing the machine that could replace them, typesetters embraced the Linotype and took control of it -- perhaps lesson for us today. Here's a small sample on Labor and the Linotype from my book Hot Type: medium.com/whither-news...

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Labor and the Linotype

Surprising lessons when typesetters met the machine

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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

You can also check out my podcast about friendship and the aesthetic, Some Marvelous Experience, which is a kind of expansion of the book's general theory of relatability, the idea that the way not to lose an experience is to share it with someone else. open.spotify.com/show/033PzKW...

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Some Marvelous Experience

A podcast about friendship and art hosted by Brian Glavey. For each episode I'll talk to a pair of friends about a work of art or aesthetic experience that they share. It could be a concert they went

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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My book, Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets, will be out later this year--just in time to stuff it in your stockings--but you can preorder now with the code UCPNEW for 30% off. @uchicagopress.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Relatability

An engaging account of how the New York School poets used art to imagine their queerness as something that might be shared with other people.How did Frank O’Hara and other New York School poets—a smal...

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Birds don't sing because they think they're Neil Young, you know; I mean, they sing because that's what birds do. --Ted Berrigan

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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Poetics Program at University at Buffalo is officially graveyard dead. Another case of administrations turning what had been a strength in the humanities into a smoking crater. To do it, UB liquidated several chairs in ways I suspect violated donor agreements. RIP big weird angsty thing.

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Evan Kindley @evankindley.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'm excited to announce that my book "The New York School: Poetry, Art, and Friendship in Midcentury Manhattan" will be published by Knopf in March 2027. It's a group biography of the New York School of Poets, centered on John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

From forthcoming “Cultural Deliteracy.”

I have thought of Williams's analysis often in the past four years, as I-and increasingly, both my professional peers and political allies - have drawn back into a defensive positions against what Matthew Kirschenbaum has persuasively dubbed the "epistemic weaponry" of text-generating chatbots. Our tactics from this position often take conservative forms: abstinence rhetorics, appeals to arbitrary authority, romantic revivalism and performative adoption of the old ways, and even, for some, a truly terrifying turn to policing (Al detectors, intrusive proctoring, lockdown browsers, booby-trapped writing prompts, arbitrary limits on high grades, and other such self-defeating copshit). The speculative boom in Generative Al has contributed, at least temporarily, to muting the rising abolitionism and collectivist politics of the early 2020s, in part by inciting many leftist intellectuals, as Williams predicted, to participate in a negotiation of licensing and legitimacy which often defaults to the protection of intellectual property, credentialing apparatuses, institutional policies, and neoliberal university administration, exacerbating the confusing political dealignments of the decade.
But while finding our way out of the defensive position is surely desirable, Williams does not propose that radicals must embrace narratives of technological progress and the financial speculators those narratives serve. Once a technology is durably established in a system of mass production, these publicity narratives are revised into origin myths. The myth of invention casts a veil over what are often violent, involuntary projects of forced adoption. Creative destruction is not the will of nature spiraling organically towards spontaneous order, as Chicago School economists like Joseph Schumpeter and Friedrich Hayek present it, but rather a will to power by specific groups of people, whose actions are retrospectively anonymized.
The defining stage of technological diffusion, standard
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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

having fun

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Exeter has a phenomenal track record of literary studies research AND enrollment. The unbundling of the two will sabotage them both. And that is by design. The fewer research-intensive humanities departments there are, this thinking goes, the easier it will be to censor what they produce.

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

In case you didn’t know, Exeter uni, where I work, has announced a plan to make 25% of staff in my English department redundant. Left-over staff will do double the teaching while their research time will be shrunk to 1%. Meanwhile admissions for English at Exeter are HIGH, and on the rise this year

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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I’m tired of being a turbo-bitch with perfect insights

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Now available for preorder, arriving in warehouse 10/02/2026: dukeupress.edu/content-mach... Duke UP gave me a discount code for 30% off paperback preorders: it's E26CNTNT ♥️👍

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Content Machines: Reading and Writing in the Platform Era

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Jill Krajewski @jillkrajewski.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

[willem dafoe unprompted] now, this cookie monster. [toothy smile] what a creature, what a lust. it consumes him. [crosses legs] he’s really a tragic figure.

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Anna Muenchrath, PhD (she/her) @annamuenchrath.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Current outline of intro.

The US Translation Publishing Industry and the World of Big Data
Data Capital and the Literary Field
Data World
Classifying with Algorithms
Datafication, Datafiction, and Translation
Data Methods
The Publishers
Leveraging Small Data to Critique Big Data
Chapter Outline
Global Culture in the Age of Data Capital

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

A great review-essay about CONVERSATIONS WITH NEW YORK SCHOOL POETS in the New York Review of Books! Poetry, gossip, publishing, New York, economics--what's not to love? www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

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When the Rents Were Low | Joe Dunthorne

An oral history of the New York School Poets suggests how its successive cohorts have changed over the years.

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 08/05/2021

“can you lift your hand now to fuck the sun?” John Wieners, “Dope”

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

do we know of an article or book chapter that discusses the economic history of Gulf + Western as a corporation, either generally or in relation to culture industries?

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

"One of the few things New York School poets agree on is that the New York School never really existed.... All of this makes them a challenge to write an academic book about." Interestingly, I've written an academic book about exactly this!

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When the Rents Were Low | Joe Dunthorne

An oral history of the New York School Poets suggests how its successive cohorts have changed over the years.

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Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Who are the literary agents of irish authors, and what do they do? I had a go at answering these questions and more in this (open access) essay - with help from some (anonymous) agents, authors and publishers who were good enough to lend me their time www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...

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Literary Agents and Contemporary Irish Fiction | Irish University Review

This essay examines the role played by literary agents in bringing the work of Irish writers into the global marketplace. Adapting Laura McGrath's notion of ‘corporate taste’ (the claim that agents ex...

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

submitted ✅✅✅ 7k words on the history of NEA administrators from the 1960s to 1980s misrecognizing the small press & its values, & the consequences for literary arts funding & small press publishing during an era of tense, quick professionalization in the poetry world

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

wow, just…wow This reminds me of that scene in The Big Short when Steve Eisman asks, “Why are they confessing?” and Vinny Daniel says, “They’re not. They’re bragging.”

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Is a New Report About the Humanities ‘Diabolically Evil’? We Questioned Its Authors.

K. Anthony Appiah, Paul Boghossian, Katherine Fleming, and Sean Wilentz on what’s gone wrong in the humanities.

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Reading poems tonight in Durham for the Paradiso series with @carrielorig.bsky.social!

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

look anyone who doesn't do their own artisanal citations is a poser

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I don't know what everyone's complaining about. Just go to settings > features > worms, then change the "worms pouring out of my phone" toggle from "yes" to "maybe later"

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

thinking about MFA programs in creative writing, isn't it wild that divisions in genre--poetry or fiction--lead students (broadly) to completely distinct publishing economies--the former largely organized around small, independent, & nonprofit publishers, the latter largely around commercial houses?

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Just learned that Alan Zipkin of Derringer Books passed away last year. Access to Alan's stock of postwar small press & little magazines helped me become the scholar I am today. Booksellers are so crucial to the field--gatekeepers to the primary sources we didn't know we needed. Thank you, Alan.

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Delighted for these nonprofit presses that won first-round Literary Arts Fund grants. Surprised—though we don't know who did and didn't apply—not to see Archipelago, FC2 Milkweed

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

an international poetry prize that goes to the current poetry editor of the new yorker and shuts out every poet in the country it's based in is working as intended. we can just move on, real support for poetry in so-called canada isn't coming from random rich guys anyway

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Nightboat, Deep Vellum, Woodland Pattern, SPT, Nuyorican, Just Buffalo, Hub City, Indigenous Nations Poets, Transit--this is so good

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

next round of Literary Arts Fund grants opens for application on June 8

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Jen Benka @jenbenka.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I'm honored to help share this news and shine a light on the important work being done by literary arts nonprofits to champion writers and reading.

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Literary Arts Fund @literaryartsfund.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

These nonprofits champion writers and reading, and uniquely impact literary culture. They organize book festivals, present readings and conversations with authors, and publish a vast amount of poetry and work in translation, among other activities. Read more: literaryartsfund.org/announcing-t...

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Literary Arts Fund @literaryartsfund.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The Literary Arts Fund is pleased to announce the recipients of its inaugural general operating grants, 40 nonprofit literary arts organizations and publishers spanning 19 states—from Alaska to Florida—that will receive a combined total of $7.7 million in unrestricted funds.

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Judith Brottrager @jbrottrager.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Very excited about a very special event: in two weeks, some of the most interesting quantitative work on the literary canon and canon formation comes together in Darmstadt 🧵

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

It's good for more folks to know this: NEA & NEH funding has continued at the same levels since 2025. As with every attempt to cut them since Reagan, the reason is baked into the agencies' legislative mission: 40% of $ goes to states, which flows into every congressional district in the country.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/06/2026

This is a huge deal. Having some structure that we can rebuild our federal arts & humanities infrastructure on in a post-Trump administration is really important. The present is brutal but this development is a bit of hope for the future.

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

living in the New Gilded Age, what a stupid pleasure for my research on federal arts funding & the professionalization of American poetry to repeatedly take me back to THE ROCKEFELLERS

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

the way that Publishers Weekly covers used to be industry ads is so sick

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

working on this book chapter & completely absorbed in the question of when precisely the meaning of "small press" changed from referring to a piece of publishing technology--"she set up a small press"--to a category of publishing--"she is a small press publisher." it seems like the early 1950s...

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Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The P45 Data Collective Tabular Data Style Guide is now live! If you are a researcher, student, librarian, or instructor working with cultural data, this style guide is for you. data.post45.org/style-guide....

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Post45 Data Collective Tabular Data Style Guide – Post45 Data Collective

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

selling a house, selling a literary archive, going to europe, finishing an academic monograph, finishing a chapter for an edited collection, finishing editing a collected poems, starting a new job in a new state in a new house, sleeping (trying)

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Richard Jean So @richardjeanso.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Just wanted to reup this; this is a great book on an important topic & it anticipates 2 terrific forthcoming 2026 books f/ @aarthivadde.bsky.social (We the Platform, Columbia UP) + @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social (Content Machines, Duke UP) on digital platforms + reading + writing that I'm excited for

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 01/06/2026

My book has a cover! I told the press I had a thing for the design of computer books from the 1970s and I was so excited they took that seriously. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

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Seeing Like a Supply Chain

A history of the technology of supply-chain management from punch cards to neural nets, and how the ambiguity built into that technology helps companies and ...

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

paragraphs are just insane little idea bags & they don't make any sense until they do

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Weird not to see real estate expansion projects, chatbot TAs, or ed-tech privatization on this report of what makes university experience valuable to students

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