Birthday – BIG OTHER

Oscar Wilde on Art, Astonishment, Disobedience, and More

Happy birthday, Oscar Wilde! Here are some quotes from the imaginative subversive: “[A]ll sentences are sentences of death.”…

For more than seventeen years, I’ve had the extraordinary good fortune of encountering Lance Olsen’s work and, even better,…

What’s seventeen years in internet years? Four thousand platform migrations, twelve dead social networks, three algorithmic regime changes, and…

Happy birthday, Wallace Stevens!

Happy birthday, William Carlos Williams, whose radical proposition placed imagination at the heart of reality: a way of seeing the…

R.I.P., Annie Dillard, one of the great writers of attention, astonishment, and wakefulness, a lyrical contemplative who spent her life…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Dawn Raffel! Celebrate by reading these Raffel fictions we published in 2020! They were subsequently…

Happy birthday, Richard Wright! Here are some quotes from the writer: “All literature is protest.” “The artist…

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

Happy birthday, Jorge Luis Borges! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Reality is not always probable, or…