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December 29, 2024 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

William Gaddis on Art, Writing, Reading, and More

  Happy birthday, William Gaddis! Here are some quotes from the writer:   “If it is not beautiful for someone,…

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December 28, 2024October 25, 2025 - Poetry, Reading, Writing

Six Poems, by Marc Vincenz

  A Starling’s Defense Ambience and verse on the surface of the clouds. A mouthful of moist élan in a…

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December 20, 2024July 16, 2025 - Nonfiction, Reading, Review, Small Presses, Writing

Order and Freedom in a Chaotic Dreamscape: A Review of Seb Doubinsky’s The Sum of All Things

By Stephen Joyce   In The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche argued that Greek tragedy arose from the clash between the…

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December 17, 2024October 25, 2025 - Poetry, Reading, Writing

Five Poems, by Heller Levinson

  “Yet where danger lies, Grows that which saves.” —from Friedrich Hölderlin’s “Patmos”   wrench lateral carapace bleed rowel from…

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December 16, 2024December 16, 2025 - Birthday, Fiction, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: Five Fictions, by Kim Chinquee

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Kim Chinquee! Celebrate by reading the five Chinquee fictions we published in 2023! Then go…

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December 10, 2024October 12, 2025 - Music, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Reading, Writing

When Being Becomes a Becoming, Everything Flows Together: Music and/as Process Philosophy

By Steve Tromans   This essay brings together ideas from the field of process philosophy and the field of music…

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December 10, 2024 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Emily Dickinson on Life, Death, Books, and More

  Happy birthday, Emily Dickinson! Here are some selections from her writing:   “To live is so startling it leaves…

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December 10, 2024December 10, 2025 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Clarice Lispector on Life, Death, Writing, and More

  Happy birthday, Clarice Lispector! Here are some quotes from the author:   “Everything in the world began with a…

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December 7, 2024December 7, 2024 - Birthday, Books, Politics, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Noam Chomsky on Freedom, Power, Democracy, Justice, and More

  Happy birthday, Noam Chomsky! 96, today! Here are some quotes from the linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic,…

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December 4, 2024 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Rainer Maria Rilke on Art, Writing, Language, and More

  Happy birthday, Rainer Maria Rilke! Here are some quotes from the writer:   “Let everything happen to you: beauty…

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