Because my reading is so divorced from the calendar (I can’t even remember what came out this year), I’m going…
Farewell Christopher Higgs!
Please join me in sending off Christopher Higgs. His “Recovery Project” posts and his thoughts on books, music, and film…
Small Presses & Single Author Longevity
Matt Bell and I were discussing this recently: Can small indie presses (smaller than Akashic, Coffee House, Dzanc) sustain the…
Best of 2009 Part One: Book-ish
I’m glad to be coming in on the whole end of the year list thing at the point where every…
Christopher Higgs, Lily Hoang, Matt Bell, Roxane Gay
These four people are contributors at both HTMLGIANT and Big Other, and I’m wondering what we think about that, if…
Joyelle McSweeney’s vision of poetry’s “future”
Joyelle doesn’t see a future for poetry. She sees a NOW. The end is not imminent; it is connected to…
A New Big Other Contributor!
Please welcome Roxane Gay to Big Other. Roxane’s writing appears or is forthcoming in Mid-American Review, DIAGRAM, The Collagist, Hobart, Monkeybicycle,…
Picture Me
Let’s get superficial. At a party a few days ago, I ended up having conversation with Marion Ettlinger (who is,…
Reading Out Loud/Aloud/Loudly
Matt Bell, writing a bit about his drafting process HERE, brought up that he reads out loud a lot when…
Are You a Grammar, Usage, and Style Junkie?
Have you heard about Ammon Shea, the man who’d read all twenty volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary and then…