December 2019 – BIG OTHER

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,…

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”…

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

“Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control.”

Happy birthday, Joan Didion! 85, today! “As it happens, I am still committed to the idea that the…

December 4, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. / Just keep going. No feeling is final.”

Happy birthday, Rainer Maria Rilke! Here are some quotes from the writer. “Surely all art is the result…

December 2, 2019 - Books, News, Reading, Writing

Announcing Big Other’s Best Small Fictions Nominations!

We are pleased to nominate the following fictions published in 2019 for inclusion in Sonder Press’s next Best Small…

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

Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”

Happy birthday, George Saunders! 61, today! Here are some quotes from Saunders about writing, etc.: “To me,…