• https://www.facebook.com/BigOtherMag
  • https://twitter.com/BigOtherMag
  • https://instagram.com/BigOtherMag

BIG OTHER

“Artists are here to disturb the peace.”—James Baldwin

  • Home
  • Fiction
  • Poetry
  • Nonfiction
  • Books
  • Podcast
  • Film
  • Art
  • Submit
  • Archives
  • About
  • Subscribe
Search for:
  • Home
  • Excerpt
June 13, 2019June 12, 2019 - Books, Excerpt, Fiction, Reading, Writing

David Leo Rice’s Angel House (An Excerpt)

  This scene takes place early in the novel, soon after the ark known as ANGEL HOUSE, piloted by an…

Read More

June 10, 2019March 16, 2019 - Books, Excerpt, Quotes, Reading, Writing

A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: From Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield

  A man who was married to someone who wasn’t me gave me an entire packing box of an old,…

Read More

April 27, 2019April 27, 2019 - Excerpt, Quotes, Reading, Theater, Writing

“Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone’s disbelief.”

Happy birthday, August Wilson! Here are some quotes from the playwright’s plays and interviews. “Confront the dark parts of yourself,…

Read More

April 9, 2019April 9, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Excerpt, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.”

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

Read More

Recent Posts

Pandimía: A Poetics Dialogue

August 13, 2020

James Baldwin on Art, Life, Writing, Reading, and More.

August 2, 2020

Herman Melville on Life, Books, Truth, Originality, and More.

August 1, 2020

William H. Gass on Art, Writing, Sentences, Reading, Literature, and More.

July 30, 2020

Elias Canetti on Astonishment, Reality, Writing, Books, and More.

July 25, 2020
My Tweets

ABOUT US

BIG OTHER is an online arts and culture magazine, published since 2009. It features fiction, poetry, art, hybrid works, reviews, essays, interviews, a podcast, and more. BIG OTHER is edited and managed by John Madera.

© 2009-2019 Big Other. All Rights Reserved.