Federico Fellini was directing La Città delle donne (City of Women). Francis Ford Coppola finished directing Apocalypse Now.
The Big Other Interview #253: Mark Brand
Mark Brand is a Chicagoland polymath: editor, writer, videopodcaster, former medical assistant. We met not long before I was a…
A Death Star for Curtis
I can’t find the full strip online, alas.
From the Barbaric Heart: Kakutani: Death Star
This is Part 2 of my hit job on the most important literary critic in these theoretically United States. It’s…
Thank You, Diana Wynne Jones
A wonderful writer died at the end of March, and I’ve been trying to figure out how to write about…
Words Without Borders: Queer Issue II + an excerpt and interview from Abdellah Taïa.
Words Without Borders has recently released its second annual Queer Issue, and there are some staggering stories in it.…
Gary Lutz Interview
Gary Lutz, a masterful prose stylist, is the author of three short-story collections: Stories in the Worst Way, I Looked…
“A Gesture towards Perfection”: Announcing a Full Performance of Robert Ashley’s “Perfect Lives” in Brooklyn
For those in or near New York City, I just found out that one Dave Ruder is organizing a full-performance…
#AuthorFail 1: Mark Spitzer
#AuthorFail is a new column at BigOther. For the details on how to submit, check here. The column looks for…
A Review of Sir Thomas Browne’s Urne Buriall, or a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns Lately Found in Norfolk
Ostensibly a history of the ways humanity has, across history, housed the mortal remains of its dearly, or otherwise, departed,…