2025 – Page 3 – BIG OTHER

From the Archives: Dissolve to Cloud: Treatments for Five Frames from Tierney Gearon’s Explosure, by Tony Leuzzi

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…

Happy birthday, Fyodor Dostoyevsky! Here are some quotes from the author: “What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.”…

Happy birthday, John Berger! Here are some quotes from the writer: “The past grows gradually around one, like…

By Joe Sacksteder In the 2001 black-and-white space cowboy musical, The American Astronaut, writer/director Cory McAbee sought to write…

Happy birthday, Edward Said! Here’s a PDF of his book very much pertinent book The Question of Palestine. And here…