November 2025 – BIG OTHER

Guy Davenport on Art, Style, Fiction, Poetry, and More

Happy birthday, Guy Davenport! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Art is always the replacement of indifference…

Happy birthday, Paul Celan! Here are some quotes from the author. “Poetry is a sort of homecoming.” …

Happy birthday, George Eliot! Here are some quotes from the author’s books: “My own experience and development deepen everyday…

Happy birthday, Don DeLillo, maestro of maestros! 89, today! Meeting and speaking (three times!) with Don DeLillo at International…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Tony Leuzzi! Celebrate by reading this superb suite of Leuzzi poems we published in…

Happy birthday, J. G. Ballard! Here are some quotes from the writer’s writing: “In a totally sane society, madness…

Color Theory Before Newton used a prism to break light into color, Aristotle said everything was white and black.…

Happy birthday, Roland Barthes! Here are some quotes from the author: “There is only one way left to…

Capitol Park: Tuscaloosa It was on a bluff, a bluff. Alabama’s state capitol building for twenty years. There was…

Happy birthday, Kurt Vonnegut! Here are some quotes from the author. “So it goes.” “There is no…