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October 31, 2021October 31, 2021 - Birthday, Fiction, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: An Oblation, by Tobias Carroll

Happy birthday, Tobias Carroll! Carroll is also an inaugural Big Other Literary Citizenship Awardee. Celebrate by reading this Carroll fiction…

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October 22, 2021August 29, 2023 - Birthday, Poetry, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: Two Poems, by Cole Swensen

Happy birthday, Cole Swensen! Celebrate by reading these Swensen poems we published in 2019!

October 18, 2021August 29, 2023 - Fiction, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: Letter, by Laurie Stone

Happy birthday, Laurie Stone! Celebrate by reading this Stone fiction we published in 2019!   Letter   I remember a…

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October 15, 2021 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Italo Calvino on Writing, Reading, Memory, Cities, and More

  Happy birthday, Italo Calvino! Here are quotes from the writer.   “What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other…

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October 15, 2021August 28, 2023 - Anthology, Archives, Poetry, Reading, Writing

Four Poems, by Jessie Janeshek

  The Descent of Louise Brooks Matches My Mood all the way back to the sad thirties westerns the progressive…

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October 14, 2021August 29, 2023 - Birthday, Fiction, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: Lance Olsen’s “Beautiful Boy Falling”

Happy birthday, Lance Olsen! Celebrate by reading Olsen’s “Beautiful Boy Falling” (which we published last year and is included in…

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October 12, 2021June 28, 2022 - Birthday, News, Reading, Writing

Happy 12th Anniversary, Big Other!

  Twelve years ago today, I launched Big Other, introducing it as “an online forum of iconoclasts and upstarts focusing…

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October 6, 2021 - Birthday, Fiction, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: A Way to Go, by Roberta Allen

Happy birthday, Roberta Allen! Celebrate by reading “A Way to Go,” which we published in 2019!   I see my…

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October 1, 2021August 29, 2023 - Anthology, Archives, Books, Reading, Review, Writing

“The Solitary Confinement of Their Souls”: On Vladimir Nabokov’s Russian Stories and Novels

By Ted Morrissey   Like many (most?) American readers, I came to Vladimir Nabokov via Lolita, the controversial novel that…

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