Birthday – BIG OTHER

Georges Perec on Writing, Space, the Uninhabitable, and More.

Happy birthday, Georges Perec! Here are some quotes from his writing: “Space is a doubt…” “Why not…

Happy birthday, Gabriel García Márquez! Here are some quotes from his writing: “A novelist can do anything he…

Happy birthday, Brendan Lorber! Celebrate by reading these Lorber poems we published on March 20, 2019! The working…

Happy birthday, David Foster Wallace! Here are some quotes from the writer: “The truth will set you free. But…

Happy birthday, Audre Lorde! Here are some quotes from the writer: “For the master’s tools will never dismantle the…

Happy birthday, J. M. Coetzee! 81, today! Here are some quotes from the author: “Unimaginable perhaps, but the…

Happy birthday, Gerhard Richter! 89, today! Here are some paintings by and quotes from the artist. “Art is…

Happy birthday, Micah Zevin! Celebrate by reading these Zevin poems we published in 2019! Four of these poems were subsequently…

Happy birthday, William S. Burroughs! Here are some quotes from this writer’s provocative writing: “The word is now…

Happy birthday, Robert Coover! 89, today, and still kicking fiction’s keister! Here are some quotes from a writer whose…