2019 – Page 7 – BIG OTHER

August 24, 2019August 24, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“If those in charge of our society…can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power.”

Happy birthday, Howard Zinn! Here are some quotes from Zinn. “To be hopeful in bad times is not…

August 22, 2019August 22, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“I am influenced by words and the chewiness of language.”

Happy birthday, Annie Proulx! 84, today! “I read omnivorously, I always have, my entire life. I would rather…

August 22, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Writers should be trying. Writers should try to be trying. Should try to try one’s patience.”

Happy birthday, Michael Martone—writer, professor, small press hero, and literary citizen extraordinaire! Here are some quotes from Martone. …

August 21, 2019October 22, 2025 - Archives, Poetry, Reading, Writing

Five Poems, by Edwin Torres

The Interrupted Blanket the effort to remain ambiguous while your heart is beating —broken heart as shadowplay I stand…

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

“The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.”

Happy birthday, Alain Robbe-Grillet! Here are some quotes from the writer. “The writer must proudly consent to bear…

August 17, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“The writer should always serve as his own angleworm—and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.”

Happy birthday, John Hawkes! Here are some quotes from the author. “‘Choice means variable, variable means discontinuity, discontinuity destroys…

August 13, 2019July 21, 2025 - Archives, Fiction, Reading, Writing

Four fictions, by Kim Chinquee

I Took One of Her Legs Back at the hotel lobby, the pleasure of the first cold beer was…

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

“I’m interested in the way in which one ‘reality’ can compromise another.”

Happy birthday, Brian Evenson! 53, today! Here are some quotes from the writer. “It’s those unguarded moments where…

August 12, 2019October 22, 2025 - Archives, Poetry, Reading, Writing

Three Poems, by Laura Cronk

What to Eat The way to be a powerful forty-year-old woman is not to eat. The way to be…

August 6, 2019August 7, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”

R.I.P., Toni Morrison. Here are some quotes from her writing. “‘If you surrendered to the air, you could…