November 2019 – BIG OTHER

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

“There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.”

Happy birthday, Roland Barthes! Here are some quotes from the author. “Language is a skin: I rub my…

November 11, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”

Happy birthday, Kurt Vonnegut! Here are some quotes from the author. “So it goes.” “There is no…

November 11, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.”

Happy birthday, Fyodor Dostoyevsky! Here are some quotes from the author. “Men reject their prophets and slay them,…

November 9, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“I stayed alive, therefore I am.”

Happy birthday, Imre Kertész! Here are some quotes from the author. “But I believe in writing—nothing else; just…

November 8, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Good writing and good reading will break down barriers.”

Happy birthday, Kazuo Ishiguro! 65, today! Here are some quotes from interviews with the writer and from some of…

November 7, 2019 - Uncategorized

10th Anniversary Flash Fiction Contest!

Win a chance to read with Elaine Equi, Robert Lopez, Dawn Raffel, and John Yau at #YeahYouWrite in NYC on January 14, 2020!* Contest Guidelines: Entries…

November 7, 2019 - Books, News, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Write very hard, keep the prose lively and original, never sell out…”

R.I.P., Stephen Dixon. Here are some quotes from some of the author’s interviews. “I give myself no excuses…

November 5, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.”

Happy birthday, John Berger! Here are some quotes from the writer. “Ignore the jailers’ talk. There are of…

November 5, 2019November 4, 2019 - Featured, Poetry, Reading, Writing

Kissing Rimbaud

By D. A. Powell —for Matthew There is no real cure for love, but there is a dry rub. Honey,…

November 4, 2019 - Birthday, Contest, Event, News, Reading, Writing

Big Other’s 10th Anniversary Celebration at #YeahYouWrite!

Celebrate Big Other’s 10th Anniversary at #YeahYouWrite, one of NYC’s best literary events! Held in a “dark and dreamy…