August 2019 – BIG OTHER

August 18, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.”

Happy birthday, Alain Robbe-Grillet! Here are some quotes from the writer. “The writer must proudly consent to bear…

August 17, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“The writer should always serve as his own angleworm—and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.”

Happy birthday, John Hawkes! Here are some quotes from the author. “‘Choice means variable, variable means discontinuity, discontinuity destroys…

August 13, 2019August 9, 2019 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

Four fictions, by Kim Chinquee

I Took One of Her Legs Back at the hotel lobby, the pleasure of the first cold beer was…

August 12, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“I’m interested in the way in which one ‘reality’ can compromise another.”

Happy birthday, Brian Evenson! 53, today! Here are some quotes from the writer. “It’s those unguarded moments where…

August 12, 2019August 9, 2019 - Featured, Poetry, Reading, Writing

Three Poems, by Laura Cronk

What to Eat The way to be a powerful forty-year-old woman is not to eat. The way to be…

August 6, 2019August 7, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”

R.I.P., Toni Morrison. Here are some quotes from her writing. “‘If you surrendered to the air, you could…

August 2, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Artists are here to disturb the peace.”

Happy birthday, James Baldwin! Here are some quotes from the writer. “This is the only real concern of…

August 1, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation.”

Happy 200th birthday, Herman Melville! Here are some quotes from his writing. “Truth is ever incoherent, and when…