May 2025 – Page 2

May 14, 2025 - Birthday, Fiction, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: Deep Salvage, by Charles Rice-González

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Charles Rice-González! Celebrate by reading this González fiction we published in Puerto Rican Writers Folio:…

May 11, 2025 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Stanley Elkin on Writing, Sentences, Fiction, and More

Happy birthday, Stanley Elkin! Here are some quotes from his books and interviews: “Make a thing that never…

May 10, 2025May 10, 2025 - Birthday, Folio, Poetry, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: Five Poems, by Jennifer Maritza McCauley

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Jennifer Maritza McCauley! Celebrate by reading these McCauley poems we published in Puerto Rican Writers…

May 8, 2025 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Thomas Pynchon on History, Truth, “Living Inside the System,” Death, and More

Happy birthday, Thomas Pynchon! 88, today! Here is Against the Day‘s Jesse’s school essay on “What It Means to Be…

May 3, 2025 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Christine Schutt on Writing, Reading, Teaching, Sentences, and More

Happy birthday, Christine Schutt, who always magnificently dissolves the so-called boundaries between poetry and prose! Christine’s evocative, lapidary writing…

May 1, 2025June 3, 2025 - Awards, Books, News, Reading, Writing

Announcing Big Other’s 2024 Lifetime Achievement Awardees!

We are delighted to announce Big Other‘s 2024 Lifetime Achievement Awardees! The award honors exemplary living writers, who have…