Birthday – BIG OTHER

“The creative impulse, Eros breathing and dreaming within us, is radical to the core.”

Happy birthday, Rikki Ducornet! 76, today! Addressing “our culture’s disdain for the artist,” Rikki Ducornet, in my podcast with her…

Happy birthday, Bob Kaufman! Here are some of his poems. Walking Parker Home Sweet beats of jazz impaled on…

Happy birthday, Henry James! Here are some quotes from his writing. “We work in the dark—we do what we can—we…

Happy birthday, Samuel Beckett! Here are some quotes from his writing. “Birth was the death of him.” “Words are the…

Happy birthday, Mark Strand! Here are some quotes from his work. “Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There…

Happy birthday, Charles Baudelaire! Here are some quotes from his writing. “Always be a poet, even in prose.” “The beautiful…

Happy birthday, Donald Barthelme! Here are some quote from his writing. “[T]here is the pressure on language from contemporary culture…

Happy birthday, Marguerite Duras. Here are some quotes from the writer. “Writing comes like the wind. It’s naked, it’s made…

Today is Samuel R. Delany Day! Celebrate by reading his writing: fiction, memoir, criticism, essays, and letters of the highest…

Happy birthday, Octavio Paz! Here are some quotes from his writing. “Art is the opposite of dissipation, in the physical…