Birthday – Page 2

Oscar Wilde on Art, Astonishment, Disobedience, and More

Happy birthday, Oscar Wilde! Here are some quotes from the writer: “[A]ll sentences are sentences of death.” …

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

Happy birthday, Michel Foucault! Here are some quotes from the philosopher and historian: “But couldn’t everyone’s life become a…

Happy birthday, Friedrich Nietzsche! Here are some quotes from the philosopher. “Is it better to out-monster the monster…

I’ve had the deep pleasure of knowing Lance Olsen (for at least thirteen years now), reviewing his work, interviewing…

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

Happy birthday, Wallace Stevens!

Happy birthday, William Faulkner! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good…

Happy birthday, William Carlos Williams! Here are some quotes from the Puerto Rican writer: “beauty is a defiance…

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