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May 22, 2026 - Birthday, Music, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Sun Ra on Music, Freedom, the Impossible, and More

  Happy Arrival Day, Sun Ra! Here are some quotes from the composer and musician:   “I think of myself…

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May 22, 2026 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Lucie Brock-Broido on Writing, Poetry, Wonderment, and More

  Happy birthday, Lucie Brock-Broido! Here are some quotes from the poet:   “I, abstract, adoring, distant / And unsalvageable.”…

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May 18, 2026 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

W. G. Sebald on Memory, History, Truth, Writing, Reading, and More

  Happy birthday, W. G. Sebald! Here are some quotes from his writing:   “It would be an ambition of…

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May 12, 2026 - Birthday, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Joseph Beuys on Art, Language, Creativity, Revolution, and More

  Happy birthday, Joseph Beuys! Here are some quotes from the artist:   “I think art is the only political…

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May 11, 2026 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Stanley Elkin on Writing, Sentences, Fiction, and More

  Happy birthday, Stanley Elkin! Here are some quotes from his books and interviews:   “Make a thing that never…

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May 10, 2026May 10, 2026 - Birthday, Folio, Poetry, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: Five Poems, by Jennifer Maritza McCauley

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Jennifer Maritza McCauley! Celebrate by reading these McCauley poems we published in Puerto Rican Writers…

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May 8, 2026 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Thomas Pynchon on History, Truth, “Living Inside the System,” Death, and More

Happy birthday, Thomas Pynchon! 89, today! Here is Against the Day‘s Jesse’s school essay on “What It Means to Be…

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May 3, 2026 - Birthday, Fiction, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: Four Fictions, by Osama Alomar

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Osama Alomar! Celebrate by reading these Alomar fictions we published in 2019!   Explosions…Explosions Fathi…

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April 29, 2026 - Birthday, Film, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Maya Deren on Art, Myth, Film, and More

Happy birthday, Maya Deren! Here are some quotes from the filmmaker: “Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest…

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April 28, 2026 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Roberto Bolaño on Writing, Reading, Literature, and More

  Happy birthday, Roberto Bolaño! Here are some quotes from his writing:   “Write in the morning, revise in the…

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