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November 26, 2019November 26, 2019 - Fiction, News, Poetry, Reading, Writing

Announcing Big Other’s Pushcart Prize Nominations!

  We are pleased to nominate the following fictions and poems published in 2019 for the Pushcart Prize:   Fiction:…

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November 24, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Politics, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Revolutions can, and often have, begun with reading.”

  Happy birthday, Arundhati Roy! 58, today! Here are some quotes from the author.   “For reasons that I don’t…

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November 23, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.”

  Happy birthday, Guy Davenport! Here are some quotes from the writer.   “Avoid the suave flow of prose that’s…

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November 23, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Poetry is a sort of homecoming.”

  Happy birthday, Paul Celan! Here are some quotes from the author.   “The poem becomes…desperate conversation.”   “He speaks…

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November 20, 2019December 16, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Maybe the challenge for the novelist is to stretch his art and his language, to the point where it can finally describe what’s happening around him.”

  Happy birthday, Don DeLillo, maestro of maestros! 83, today! Meeting and three times speaking with Don DeLillo at last…

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November 20, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.”

  Happy birthday, Nadine Gordimer! Here are some quotes from the author.   “As a writer, I’m a composite intelligence.”…

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

“A word after a word after a word is power.”

  Happy birthday, Margaret Atwood! 80, today! Here are some quotes from the author.   “I walk around in a…

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November 16, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.”

  Happy birthday, José Saramago! Here are some quotes from the author.   “Deep down, I don’t create anything. I’m…

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November 16, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.”

  Happy birthday, Chinua Achebe! Here are some quotes from the author.   “People create stories create people; or rather…

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November 15, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one’s happiness to express.”

  Happy birthday, Marianne Moore! Here are some quotes from the author.   “Poetry is a magic of pauses…not a…

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