Happy birthday, John Hawkes! Here are some quotes from the author: “‘Choice means variable, variable means discontinuity, discontinuity destroys…
Announcing the Finalists for the 2023 Big Other Book Award for Translation!
We’re excited to announce the finalists for the 2023 Big Other Book Award for Translation. The winner will be announced…
From the Archives: Robert Coover and Fairy Tales, by Brian Evenson
Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Brian Evenson! Celebrate by reading his essay on Robert Coover’s fiction, which is featured in…
Five Poems, by John Schertzer
What It Feels Like to Be Free The organ grinder sends another monkey down the street into peril. That’s…
Four Poems, by Martha Ronk
staring at the Pacific standing so long staring at the Pacific calls up landscapes and moors I’ve never seen,…
Five Poems, by Andrew Joron
Of All Predicament the Predicate First neither, then nor. Furor, then mirror. Where light reverses, where rain falls upward.…
Three Poems, by Elaine Equi
Blue Carapace Protective dome clamped on like a helmet at dawn. Midnight blue waxing and waning a tall tale…
Eight Poems, by Norman Fischer
(it was only your) It was only your gaze Gazing at mine It was only my supreme Confidence that…