Books – BIG OTHER

Roland Barthes on Language, Writing, Love, Style, Literature, and More

Happy birthday, Roland Barthes! Here are some quotes from the author: “There is only one way left to…

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

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

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

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

By Elijah Sparkman Peter Markus lives downriver. I live in Hamtramck, MI. Sometimes we meet in the middle and…

Happy birthday, Wallace Stevens!

Happy birthday, William Carlos Williams, whose radical proposition placed imagination at the heart of reality: a way of seeing the…

R.I.P., Annie Dillard, one of the great writers of attention, astonishment, and wakefulness, a lyrical contemplative who spent her life…

Happy birthday, Richard Wright! Here are some quotes from the writer: “All literature is protest.” “The artist…