Birthday – BIG OTHER

William Carlos Williams on Language, Writing, Reading, Poetry, and More

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…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Michael Martone! Celebrate by reading “Follies, Ruins, Ducks,” which we published in 2025! Follow that…

Happy birthday, John Hawkes! Here are some quotes from the author: “‘Choice means variable, variable means discontinuity, discontinuity destroys…

Brian Evenson has been a meaningful presence in my literary life for many years, not only through my reviews…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Brian Evenson! Celebrate by reading his essay on Robert Coover’s fiction, which is featured in…