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December 10, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”

  Happy birthday, Emily Dickinson! Here are some selections from her writing.   “If I read a book [and] it…

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December 10, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.”

  Happy birthday, Clarice Lispector! Here are some quotes from the author.   “Everything in the world began with a…

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December 7, 2019December 7, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Politics, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it, I’d be ashamed of myself.”

  Happy birthday, Noam Chomsky! 91, today! Here are some quotes from the linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic,…

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December 5, 2019 - Fiction, News, Reading, Writing

Announcing Big Other’s Best Microfiction 2020 Nominations!

  We are pleased to nominate the following fictions for inclusion in Pelekinesis‘s Best Microfiction 2020 anthology: Kim Chinquee’s “Foxy”…

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December 5, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control.”

  Happy birthday, Joan Didion! 85, today!   “As it happens, I am still committed to the idea that the…

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December 4, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. / Just keep going. No feeling is final.”

  Happy birthday, Rainer Maria Rilke! Here are some quotes from the writer.   “Surely all art is the result…

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December 2, 2019 - Books, News, Reading, Writing

Announcing Big Other’s Best Small Fictions Nominations!

  We are pleased to nominate the following fictions published in 2019 for inclusion in Sonder Press’s next Best Small…

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December 2, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”

  Happy birthday, George Saunders! 61, today!   Here are some quotes from Saunders about writing, etc.:   “To me,…

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November 26, 2019November 26, 2019 - Fiction, News, Poetry, Reading, Writing

Announcing Big Other’s Pushcart Prize Nominations!

  We are pleased to nominate the following fictions and poems published in 2019 for the Pushcart Prize:   Fiction:…

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November 24, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Politics, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Revolutions can, and often have, begun with reading.”

  Happy birthday, Arundhati Roy! 58, today! Here are some quotes from the author.   “For reasons that I don’t…

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“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”

December 10, 2019

“I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.”

December 10, 2019

“The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it, I’d be ashamed of myself.”

December 7, 2019

Announcing Big Other’s Best Microfiction 2020 Nominations!

December 5, 2019

“Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control.”

December 5, 2019
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