Books – BIG OTHER

“There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.”

Happy birthday, Roland Barthes! Here are some quotes from the author. “Language is a skin: I rub my…

Happy birthday, Kurt Vonnegut! Here are some quotes from the author. “So it goes.” “There is no…

Happy birthday, Fyodor Dostoyevsky! Here are some quotes from the author. “Men reject their prophets and slay them,…

Happy birthday, Imre Kertész! Here are some quotes from the author. “But I believe in writing—nothing else; just…

Happy birthday, Kazuo Ishiguro! 65, today! Here are some quotes from interviews with the writer and from some of…

R.I.P., Stephen Dixon. Here are some quotes from some of the author’s interviews. “I give myself no excuses…

Happy birthday, John Berger! Here are some quotes from the writer. “Ignore the jailers’ talk. There are of…

Happy birthday, Sylvia Plath! “[L]et me live, love, and say it well in good sentences…” “[E]verything in…

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

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