August 2025 – BIG OTHER

From the Archives: However Many Sayings to Live and Die By, by Robert Lopez

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Robert Lopez! Celebrate by reading Lopez’s “However Many Sayings to Live and Die By,” which…

Happy birthday, Julio Cortázar! Here are some quotes from the writer: “‘What good is a writer if he…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Marc Vincenz! Celebrate by reading this sextet of Vincenz poems we published in 2024! …

Writing Is Remembering But not remembering the past. It is remembering the future. How do you know a word…

Happy birthday, Annie Proulx! 90, today! Here are some quotes from the writer: “I read omnivorously, I always…

Happy birthday, Michael Martone! Celebrate by reading two Martone fictions we published in 2019! They were subsequently published in The…

By Angus Stewart I first met Lyu Guangzhao in Leeds, England. We were the two early birds in the…

By Helen E. Mundler-Arantes In Charles Holdefer’s Don’t Look at Me, Holly Winegarten, a former college basketball star, breaks…

Happy birthday, John Hawkes! Here are some quotes from the author: “‘Choice means variable, variable means discontinuity, discontinuity destroys…

“A dead hare appears, just like in a fairy tale…” —Joseph Beuys You might know me as Joseph Beuys’s…