August 2021 – BIG OTHER

From the Archives: However Many Sayings to Live and Die By, by Robert Lopez

Happy birthday, Robert Lopez! Celebrate by reading Lopez’s “However Many Sayings to Live and Die By,” which we published last…

Happy birthday, Joe Milazzo! Celebrate by reading these two Milazzo poems we published in 2019! And then go read a…

Happy birthday, Julio Cortázar! Here are some quotes from the writer: “‘What good is a writer if he…

Happy birthday, Jorge Luis Borges! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Reality is not always probable, or…

Happy birthday, Michael Martone! Celebrate by reading two Martone fictions we published in 2019! They were subsequently published in The…

Here are some compelling August 2021 small press books that captured my attention, including Big Other contributor Brian Evenson‘s The Glassy,…

Happy birthday, Olivia Kate Cerrone! Celebrate by reading this Cerrone fiction we published in 2019! Long piggish snouts and…

Happy birthday, Brian Evenson! Celebrate by reading his essay on Robert Coover’s fiction, which is featured in our Robert Coover…

I arrive at the airport, sweaty, dazed by drugs, my sweater hiding the chemo port. I haven’t been to…

Happy birthday, James Baldwin! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Artists are here to disturb the peace.”…