Birthday – Page 5

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Life, Truth, Literature, Paradox, and More

Happy birthday, Ralph Waldo Emerson! Here are some quotes from his writing: “Neither dogmatize yourself, nor accept another’s…

Happy birthday, Bob Dylan! 85, today! Lucky to have seen this trickster and consummate artist perform live many times…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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