2025 – Page 9 – BIG OTHER

Some Chairs at the Art Museum, by David M. Sheridan

Happy birthday, James Baldwin! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Artists are here to disturb the peace.”…

Translated by S. C. Delaney and Agnès Potier Slack waves cross the darkness. Like a very thin veil stretched…

Happy birthday, Herman Melville! Here are some quotes from his writing: “It is better to fail in originality,…

Ethereal Meat Tossing crushed garlic into hand-churned butter melting in cast-iron pans, I caramelize buckets of wild mushrooms brought…

Happy birthday, William H. Gass! Here are some quotes from his books, interviews, etc. Speaking of interviews, read my career-spanning…

Happy birthday, John Ashbery! Here are some quotes from his writing: “I too often feel like a person I…

Happy birthday, William T. Vollmann! 66, today! Here are some quotes from the writer: “If I try not to…

Happy birthday, Gerard Manley Hopkins! Here are some quotes from his writing. “What you look hard at seems…

Testimony: Louisiana, 1864 At the time when I was raped by a man in uniform, what happened to me…