October 2023 – BIG OTHER

From the Archives: An Oblation, by Tobias Carroll

Happy birthday, Tobias Carroll! Celebrate by reading this Carroll fiction we published in 2019! Carroll was an inaugural Big Other…

Happy birthday, Cole Swensen! Celebrate by reading these Swensen poems we published in 2023! And then read the Swensen poems…

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

Happy birthday, Michel Foucault! Here are some quotes from the philosopher and historian: “But couldn’t everyone’s life become a…

Happy birthday, Friedrich Nietzsche! Here are some quotes from the philosopher: “Is it better to out-monster the monster…

I’ve had the deep pleasure of knowing Lance Olsen (for at least fourteen years now), reviewing his work, interviewing…

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