Birthday – BIG OTHER

Margaret Atwood on Writing, Language, Literature, and More

Happy birthday, Margaret Atwood! 82, today! Here are some quotes from the author: “A word after a word…

Happy birthday, Tobias Carroll! Carroll is also an inaugural Big Other Literary Citizenship Awardee. Celebrate by reading this Carroll fiction…

Happy birthday, Cole Swensen! Celebrate by reading these Swensen poems we published in 2019!

Happy birthday, Italo Calvino! Here are quotes from the writer. “What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other…

Happy birthday, Lance Olsen! Celebrate by reading Olsen’s “Beautiful Boy Falling” (which we published last year and is included in…

Twelve years ago today, I launched Big Other, introducing it as “an online forum of iconoclasts and upstarts focusing…

Happy birthday, Roberta Allen! Celebrate by reading “A Way to Go,” which we published in 2019! I see my…

Happy birthday, William Carlos Williams! Here are some quotes from the writer. “beauty is a defiance of authority”…

Happy birthday, Dawn Raffel! Celebrate by reading this Raffel fiction we published in 2020! It was subsequently selected for inclusion…

Happy birthday, Ted Morrissey! Celebrate by reading this Morrissey essay on Robert Coover’s Noir! It was my great fortune…