December 2019 – BIG OTHER

“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,…

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

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

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

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

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

Happy birthday, Emily Dickinson! Here are some selections from her writing. “If I read a book [and] it…

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

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

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