Over the past few weeks, I’ve written a lot here about “Contemporary Verse Novels” and concluded with the idea that…
Sentences and Fragments: “The Smell of Hay” and “The Cure” by Carl Phillips
I’ll never know why some poems stand out to me more than others, or why I’m drawn to certain themes…
Sentences and Fragments: Sentences I Like
“Dining Room” from Selah Saterstrom’s The Pink Institution (Coffee House, 2004): “Willie called his daughters into the dining room. He…
Contemporary Verse Novels: The Anxiety of Reading Poems and Kimiko Hahn’s THE UNBEARABLE HEART
This book undoes a lot of the anxiety I have as someone who has to read a lot of poetry…
Our Newest Contributor!
Please welcome Paula Bomer to Big Other. Paula Bomer is the author of Baby and Other Stories (Word Riot Press,…
On Reading Dan Chaon’s “Falling Backwards” and Mary Gaitskill’s “The Arms and Legs of the Lake”: An Essay on Compassion
I’ve read about Dan Chaon and possibly have read other stories by him (because I’ve read many journals over many…