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December 5, 2025 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

When No One Was Sure About the World, by Yi Zhou

Translated from the Chinese by Chen Zeping and Karen Gernant   I actually got together with Ginger when the pandemic…

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December 4, 2025 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

Father, by Cao Kou

Translated from the Chinese by Chen Zeping and Karen Gernant    One morning last spring, my father fed the chickens…

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December 4, 2025December 5, 2025 - 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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December 3, 2025 - Birthday, Poetry, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: Rift, by Elizabeth Robinson

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Elizabeth Robinson! Celebrate by reading “Rift,” which we published in 2024! And then read Robinson’s…

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December 2, 2025 - Letter from the Editor, Reading, Small Presses, Writing

Today Is Giving Tuesday! Will You Support Big Other?

Dear Reader, Art, artists, and arts organizations are under attack. Under the guise of cutting government spending, some of the…

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December 2, 2025 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

George Saunders on Writing, Fiction, Literature, and More

Happy birthday, George Saunders! 67, today! Here are some quotes from Saunders’s writing:   “Stay open, forever, so open it…

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November 23, 2025 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

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…

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November 23, 2025 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Paul Celan on Poetry, Language, Silence, and More

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

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November 22, 2025 - Birthday, Books, Reading, Writing

George Eliot on Joy, Truth, Beauty, Generosity, and More

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

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November 20, 2025 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Don DeLillo on Writing, Language, Life, Death, and More

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

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