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January 25, 2022 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Virginia Woolf on Writing, Reading, Literature, and More

Happy birthday, Virginia Woolf! Here’s a compilation of quotes from some of Woolf’s many books, letters, diaries, and essays:  …

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January 24, 2022 - Birthday, Poetry, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: Four Poems, by Gillian Cummings

Happy birthday, Gillian Cummings! Celebrate by reading Cummings’s “Four Poems,” which we published in 2020!   The Faint Bells Calling…

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January 16, 2022 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Susan Sontag on Art, Writing, Literature, and More

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

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January 15, 2022 - Birthday, Books, Politics, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Martin Luther King, Jr. on Love, Freedom, Justice, and More

  Happy birthday, Martin Luther King, Jr.! Here are some quotes from the civil and human rights activist:   “The…

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January 15, 2022June 28, 2022 - Awards, Books, News, Reading, Writing

Announcing Big Other’s 2021 Lifetime Achievement Awardees!

  We are delighted to announce Big Other‘s 2021 Lifetime Achievement Awardees! The award honors exemplary living writers, who have…

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January 13, 2022March 2, 2022 - Books, Poetry, Reading, Review, Small Presses, Writing

“In Vast Flights, Borne Along Like Smoke, Mist”: A Review Edwin Torres’s Quanundrum [i will be your many angled thing]

By Kristin Dykstra   One morning in late November, 1799, Samuel Taylor Coleridge watched the sun rise. Then a mass…

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January 7, 2022 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Zora Neale Hurston on Life, Writing, Death, and More

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

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January 5, 2022 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Umberto Eco on Writing, Reading, Books, and More

  Happy birthday, Umberto Eco! Here are some quotes from the writer:   “Show not what has been done, but…

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January 5, 2022 - Awards, Contest, Fiction, News, Reading, Writing

Announcing Big Other‘s Nominations for Best Small Fictions 2022!

We are pleased to nominate the following fictions published in 2021 for inclusion in Sonder Press‘s The Best Small Fictions…

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January 2, 2022 - Art, Comics, Fiction, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: Regarding, by Nick Francis Potter

Happy birthday, Nick Francis Potter! Here’s “Regarding,” originally published in Big Other on March 13, 2019.  

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