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December 29, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around.”

  Happy birthday, William Gaddis! Here are some quotes from the writer:   “If it is not beautiful for someone,…

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December 29, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Politics, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.”

  Happy birthday, Guy Debord! Here are some quotes from the theorist, philosopher, and filmmaker:   “The more you consume,…

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December 26, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Imagination is the voice of daring.”

  Happy birthday, Henry Miller! Here are some quotes from the writer.   “There is no salvation in becoming adapted…

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December 26, 2019December 26, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Aim to encounter unknown difficulties that you may gain unexpected results.”

Happy birthday, Jean Toomer! Here are some quotes from the author.   “We have many reformers, few transformers.”   “All…

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December 16, 2019 - Featured, Fiction, Interview, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading, Review, Videos, Writing

Big Other Anthology 2019

  Caveat lector: the following pieces of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, etc.—all published this year in Big Other—are feral, that is,…

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

“Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.”

  Happy birthday, Gustave Flaubert! Here are some quotes from the writer.   “Talent is a long patience, and originality…

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December 10, 2019December 10, 2020 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Emily Dickinson on Life, Death, Books, and More

  Happy birthday, Emily Dickinson! Here are some selections from her writing:   “To live is so startling it leaves…

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December 10, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.”

  Happy birthday, Clarice Lispector! Here are some quotes from the author.   “Everything in the world began with a…

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December 7, 2019December 7, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Politics, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it, I’d be ashamed of myself.”

  Happy birthday, Noam Chomsky! 91, today! Here are some quotes from the linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic,…

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December 5, 2019 - Fiction, News, Reading, Writing

Announcing Big Other’s Best Microfiction 2020 Nominations!

  We are pleased to nominate the following fictions for inclusion in Pelekinesis‘s Best Microfiction 2020 anthology: Kim Chinquee’s “Foxy”…

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