Books – BIG OTHER

“Keeping the Sentence Suspended in Mid-air, Aloft”: An Interview with Peter Markus

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…

Happy birthday, Jorge Luis Borges! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Reality is not always probable, or…

By Richard Hamilton Phenomenology happens along a continuum at the crossroad between chaos and the cosmos. By one account,…

Happy birthday, John Hawkes! Here are some quotes from the author: “‘Choice means variable, variable means discontinuity, discontinuity destroys…

Brian Evenson has been a meaningful presence in my literary life for many years, not only through my reviews…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Brian Evenson! Celebrate by reading his essay on Robert Coover’s fiction, which is featured in…