Birthday – BIG OTHER

November 5, 2026 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

John Berger on Art, History, Politics, and More

Happy birthday, John Berger! Here are some quotes from the writer: “The past grows gradually around one, like…

October 31, 2026 - Birthday, Fiction, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: An Oblation, by Tobias Carroll

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor and inaugural Big Other Literary Citizenship Awardee Tobias Carroll! Celebrate by reading this Carroll fiction…

October 28, 2026 - Birthday, Event, News, Reading, Small Presses, Writing

Re-Cap of A Night of Readings Celebrating Big Other

On October 24, 2026 at New York Insight Meditation Center, I had the pleasure of gathering with writers, readers, and…

October 24, 2026October 27, 2026 - Birthday, Event, News

Join Us October 24, 2026: Celebrating 17 Years of Big Other!

On Saturday, October 24, 2026, I’ll be emceeing Artist Salon Presents: A Night of Readings Celebrating Big Other, a…

October 22, 2026 - Birthday, Poetry, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: Three Poems, by Cole Swensen

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Cole Swensen, a poet of extraordinary perceptual fluidity and experimental adventurousness! Across Swensen’s many…

October 21, 2026 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Ursula K. Le Guin on Art, Language, Writing, and More

Happy birthday, Ursula K. Le Guin! Here are some quotes from the writer: “To learn which questions are unanswerable,…

October 16, 2026 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

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.”…

October 14, 2026October 17, 2026 - Birthday, Books, Reading, Writing

Happy 70th Birthday, Lance Olsen!: 70 Reasons to Celebrate Lance Olsen

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

October 12, 2026 - Birthday, Featured, Letter, News, Reading, Small Presses, Writing

Big Other at Seventeen: On Unruly Writing, Fruitful Dissensus, and the Art of Keeping Art Alive

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

October 2, 2026 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Wallace Stevens on Art, Poetry, the Imagination, and More

Happy birthday, Wallace Stevens!