One of the strange things I’ve found about living in New York is that there are a lot of freaks…
Reading Stanley Elkin’s Searches and Seizures: “The Making of Ashenden”
Ken Emerson, in his rather fine article “The Indecorous, Rabelaisian, Convoluted Righteousness of Stanley Elkin” (March 3, 1991) writes: Elkin,…
T. J. Beitelman’s PILGRIMS: A LOVE STORY
Winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition, Pilgrims: A Love Story is a book I’ve had on my stack for…
Joseph Riippi’s THE ORANGE SUITCASE
Amber Sparks already wrote a fantastic and comprehensive review of Joseph Riippi’s The Orange Suitcase for Big Other, which you…
The role of the humanities in an open society
The philosopher Raymond Geuss speaks clearly and candidly about the individual and social need to cultivate self-knowledge. A wonderful 5-min.…
Big Other Contributors’ News, #25
Ryan W. Bradley‘s story, “The Pit Bull’s Tooth,” is up at Wigleaf, and his chapbook, MILE ZERO will be out…
Norman Lock’s Latest Book Has Been Released!
Norman Lock‘s new book, Pieces for Small Orchestra & Other Fictions, has just been published by Spuyten Duyvil. I’ve been…
Big Other’s a Drag
I had so much fun “dragulating” Blake Butler, I decided to start unleashing some fabulous on Big Other’s contributors. I…
Our New Contributor!
Please join me in welcoming Andrew Taggart to Big Other. Andrew Taggart is a philosophical counselor living in Brooklyn. With…
Touching on Grief: On the Story “Dreaming Before Sleep,” by Kathryn Chetkovich, and Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen
Due to a violent death in my family, I found myself unable to read or write for about five months.…