April 2023 – BIG OTHER

Annie Dillard on Art, Life, Reading, and Writing

Happy birthday, Annie Dillard! 78, today! Here are some quotes from her writing: “Write as if you were…

Happy birthday, Hillary Leftwich! Celebrate by reading this Leftwich fiction we published in 2020! It was subsequently published in The…

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

Happy birthday, Ludwig Wittgenstein! Here are some quotes from his writing: “The limits of my language mean the limits…

Happy birthday, Vladimir Nabokov! Here are some quotes from his writing: “Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!” …

They found the Burroughs necronaut two weeks ago sitting in a Topeka bus station wearing a moldy suit and…

Happy birthday, Rikki Ducornet! 80, today! Addressing “our culture’s disdain for the artist,” Rikki Ducornet in my podcast with…

Happy birthday, Kathy Acker! Here are some quotes from her writing: “Literature is that which denounces and slashes…

Happy birthday, Henry James! Here are some quotes from his writing: “Try to be one of the people…

Happy birthday, Robert Walser! Here are some quotes from his writing: “We don’t need to see anything out…