Books – BIG OTHER

“The creative impulse, Eros breathing and dreaming within us, is radical to the core.”

Happy birthday, Rikki Ducornet! 76, today! Addressing “our culture’s disdain for the artist,” Rikki Ducornet, in my podcast with her…

Happy birthday, Bob Kaufman! Here are some of his poems. Walking Parker Home Sweet beats of jazz impaled on…

Happy birthday, Henry James! Here are some quotes from his writing. “We work in the dark—we do what we can—we…

R.I.P., Gene Wolfe. Here are some quotes from his writing. “No man has a home unless he is master of…

“Out of kindness comes redness and out of rudeness comes rapid same question, out of an eye comes research, out…

Happy birthday, Charles Baudelaire! Here are some quotes from his writing. “Always be a poet, even in prose.” “The beautiful…

By Norman Lock “But under us all moved, and moved us, gently, up and down, and from side to…

Happy birthday, Donald Barthelme! Here are some quote from his writing. “[T]here is the pressure on language from contemporary culture…

R.I.P., Jonathan Baumbach. Here are some quotes from the writer. “The books of mine I like best are the ones…

With time and tempests everywhere To rafts of frail assumption cling The saintly and the insincere; Enraged phenomena bear down…