Books – BIG OTHER

January 28, 2020 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Colette on Writing, Passion, Solitude, Despair, and More

Happy birthday, Colette! Here are some quotes from this great writer: “Put down everything that comes into your…

January 25, 2020 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.”

Happy birthday, Virginia Woolf! Here’s a compilation of quotes from some of Woolf’s many books, letters, diaries, and essays:…

January 24, 2020 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.”

Happy birthday, Edith Wharton! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Some things are best mended by a…

January 23, 2020 - Books, Event, Featured, News, Reading, Writing

Announcing: Big Other Book Awards Ceremony!

Join us at Murmrr Ballroom on May 16, 2020 for the inaugural Big Other Book Awards Ceremony! In recognition…

January 18, 2020 - Birthday, Books, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Bring something incomprehensible into the world!”

Happy birthday, Gilles Deleuze! Here are some quotes from the writer: “[T]o write is to struggle and resist;…

January 16, 2020 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“The language of literature must be…the language of transgression, a rupture of individual systems, a shattering of psychic oppression.”

Happy birthday, Susan Sontag! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Literature is dialogue; responsiveness. Literature might be…

January 15, 2020 - Birthday, Books, Politics, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists…”

Happy birthday, Martin Luther King, Jr.! “I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the…

January 13, 2020January 13, 2020 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“As far as language goes, we have to live contentedly, and discontentedly, with our own, making it do what it can and, also, a little of what it can’t.“

Happy birthday, Lorrie Moore! 63, today! “I try to start a project with at least a small sense…

January 13, 2020 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“[T]he most important things in our intimate lives can’t be discussed with strangers, except in books.”

Happy birthday, Edmund White! 79, today! “[T]here’s more to contemporary literature than American coffee-cup realism.” “The novel…

January 12, 2020 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

Happy birthday, Haruki Murakami! 71, today! Here are some quotes from the writer: “All words I use to…