Here’s my Best of 2009: Music: Vic Chesnutt, At the Cut David Bazan, Curse Your Branches Puritan Blister MP3 Blog,…
Bradley Sands’s Best of 2009
Here’s a quick run-through of the books that I read this year and came out this year. Pretty much the…
On Utilizing The Five Senses
In my five years of experience teaching college English courses, I have noticed a trend amongst young writers toward taking…
James Kaelen’s Best of 2009
When John asked me to compose some sort of “best of” list for 2009, I thought immediately of film. Though…
Lia Purpura’s Best of 2009
▪ Twisted Tree, gorgeous novel by Kent Meyers ▪ The SodaStream (an at-home carbonating machine), so we now buy NO…
Alexander Bogs’s Best of 2009
Best Human: Daniel Johnston Best Sound: hub cap falling off a car in a snow storm Best Feeling: hope I…
Serialized Storytelling in the Internet Age?
Daytime drama is dying! …Earlier this year, CBS cancelled the longest-running series in broadcast history, Guiding Light (which debuted over…
A New Big Other Contributor!
Please welcome Kristen Iskandrian to Big Other. Kristen’s work has been published in a number of places: Gulf Coast, Denver…
Writing & Smoking
I’ve been reading quite a bit of Anne Sexton lately, and I noticed that on the back of all my…