April 2020 – BIG OTHER

A Conversation with Lance Olsen

By Peter Wortsman Lance and I go back a long way. Both old friends and sometime protégés of the…

Happy birthday, Hillary Leftwich! Celebrate by reading this Leftwich fiction we published February 11, 2020! I wake up every…

Happy birthday, Annie Dillard! 75, today! Here are some quotes from her writing: “It’s about waking up. A…

Tribes of warring pastoralists drive their meat-shrubs across a snowy plain. Their world, Hurth, does not turn, but is…

Happy birthday, Roberto Bolaño! Here are some quotes from his writing: “Write in the morning, revise in the…

By Tyrone Williams In every woman and man lies the seed of the fear Of just how alone are all…

1. Deer tracks chase sunlight. Moments of discovery are covered over in new moments of discovery followed by moments…

Happy birthday, Mumia Abu-Jamal! 66, today! “Elie Wiesel says that the greatest evil in the world is not…

We are excited to announce the finalists for the 2019 Big Other Book Award for Fiction. Most of the…