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August 31, 2025August 31, 2025 - Birthday, Fiction, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: However Many Sayings to Live and Die By, by Robert Lopez

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Robert Lopez! Celebrate by reading Lopez’s “However Many Sayings to Live and Die By,” which…

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August 31, 2024August 31, 2024 - Fiction, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: However Many Sayings to Live and Die By, by Robert Lopez

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Robert Lopez! Celebrate by reading Lopez’s “However Many Sayings to Live and Die By,” which…

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August 31, 2022August 29, 2023 - Fiction, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: However Many Sayings to Live and Die By, by Robert Lopez

Happy birthday, Robert Lopez! Celebrate by reading Lopez’s “However Many Sayings to Live and Die By,” which we published in…

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June 10, 2022October 22, 2025 - Archives, Fiction, Folio, Reading, Writing

Say No More, by Robert Lopez

  A lot of people say I have great posture. I’m not sure this is altogether true, that I have…

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August 31, 2021August 29, 2023 - Fiction, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: However Many Sayings to Live and Die By, by Robert Lopez

Happy birthday, Robert Lopez! Celebrate by reading Lopez’s “However Many Sayings to Live and Die By,” which we published last…

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August 31, 2020August 29, 2023 - Fiction, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: However Many Sayings to Live and Die By, by Robert Lopez

Happy birthday, Robert Lopez! Celebrate by reading these Lopez fictions we published this year; and then go read “The Future…

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April 21, 2020August 28, 2023 - Archives, Fiction, Reading, Writing

However Many Sayings to Live and Die By

By Robert Lopez   What Not to Do, How Not to Live Don’t get born, don’t be a person, don’t…

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April 22, 2019April 22, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: From Peter Markus’s The Singing Fish

“We each of us brothers took up a fist full of nails and a hammer into each one of our…

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February 16, 2019April 13, 2021 - Archives, Fiction, Reading, Writing

The Future Home of the Wymans, by Robert Lopez

  I’m sorry I joked about hanging your grandmother is what the young woman next to me said to the…

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July 30, 2012March 7, 2019 - Books, Reading, Uncategorized

Robert Lopez’s “Literary Pillars”

Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, Samuel Beckett The Complete Short Prose, Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett…

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