Nicholas Birns
nicholasbirns.bsky.social
Nicholas Birns
@nicholasbirns.bsky.social
Academic, literary critic etc. teaching at NYU. Books from Cambridge UP, Bloomsbury, Broadview, Palgrave, U of South Carolina P, Sydney UP, Routledge. He/him
Fight!
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Sunset near Lehighton, PA
November 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
October 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Beginning the day
October 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
October 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Cat at work
October 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
At Bus Stop Café, Greenwich Village
October 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
A memory of a place and lost things…
October 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Rockwell Kent painting of Greenland, at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
September 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
At the university of Delaware botanic Gardens
September 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
At MSG for hockey
September 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I was just in Llangollen last month where they put up this plaque.
September 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Patchin Place
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Sunset in New Jersey
September 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Thai iced tea
September 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Great to have this new volume of poems by acclaimed New Zealand writer Stephen Oliver. Spiky, retrospective, allusive, and laden with deep feeling.
September 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Writers tend to underrate their insufficiently remunerated staff and not thank them enough. I for one will never fall prey to such a temptation.
September 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
In Telluride
August 31, 2025 at 10:55 PM
August 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Towards the ocean
August 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
The feast
August 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Corn on the grill
August 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
@alas-not-me.bsky.social and Kristine Larsen at today’s Tolkien conference.
July 31, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Rosemont College and surrounding area
July 26, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Family gathering near Philadelphia
July 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM