January 2021 – BIG OTHER

Gilles Deleuze on Writing, Creation, Philosophy, and More

Happy birthday, Gilles Deleuze! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Bring something incomprehensible into the world!” “[T]o…

Happy birthday, Susan Sontag! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Literature is dialogue; responsiveness. Literature might be…

Like every year in recent memory, 2020 found our country in crisis, where one catastrophe followed another, cascaded pummelingly…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Nik De Dominic! Celebrate by reading these superb poems we published March 1, 2019.…

Here are some compelling January 2021 small press books that captured my attention, including Big Other contributor G. C.…

Happy birthday, Leon Forrest! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Generations have to pay for the bloodshed, avarice…

Happy birthday, Zora Neale Hurston! Here are some quotes from the author: “If writers were too wise, perhaps…

Happy birthday, Nicholson Baker! 64, today! Here are quotes from the writer: “You need the art in order…

Happy birthday, C. D. Wright! Here are some quotes from the writer: “I believe in a hardheaded art,…

Happy birthday, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o! 83, today! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Written words can also…