Welcome to #AuthorFail (want to get in on this thing? Check here for guidelines.) This week’s installment (cue old-timey radio-play…
The Big Other Interview #253: Mark Brand
Mark Brand is a Chicagoland polymath: editor, writer, videopodcaster, former medical assistant. We met not long before I was a…
#AuthorFail 1: Mark Spitzer
#AuthorFail is a new column at BigOther. For the details on how to submit, check here. The column looks for…
#AuthorFail: Call for Submissions for BigOther feature
Big Other will soon launch a new feature for this site: #AuthorFail. This post is an invitation for you to…
Two new books that are on my shelf and now I just need time time time to read them:
1) Three Sea Monsters: Our History of Whose Image, Tod Thilleman. Spuyten Duyvil. Thilleman, the Maurice Girodias behind Spuyten Duyvil…
Vagina Rebel (small) contest
Sometimes a vagina can be more than a vagina. Sometimes it can be freedom. The ever-vigilant Nick Mamatas shared the…
Madeline P. Plonsker Emerging Writer’s Residency Prize: April 1 postmark deadline. Win $10K, first book publication, residency. No fee!
Each spring, Lake Forest College, in conjunction with the &NOW Festival, sponsors emerging writers under forty years old—with no major…
&NOW 5: UC San Diego / Proposal Deadline: April 12!
Hey now–time to get your proposals together. This one’s going to be big… The &Now Festival is a biennial festival,…
Best Spam? Received this morning.
DEAR RECEIVER, You have just received a Taliban virus. Since we are not so technologicaly advanced in Afghanistan, this is…
The Big Other Interview #43: Cris Mazza
At the recent Chicago book release party for Cris Mazza’s new novel Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls, from…