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Announcing Big Other’s 2021 Pushcart Prize Nominations!

We are pleased to nominate the following writing published in Big Other in 2021 for the Pushcart Prize: Sarah…

Wear Away Light makes light; day makes day. The endless panting of the dog owes nothing to heat or…

The Descent of Louise Brooks Matches My Mood all the way back to the sad thirties westerns the progressive…

Twelve years ago today, I launched Big Other, introducing it as “an online forum of iconoclasts and upstarts focusing…

By Ted Morrissey Like many (most?) American readers, I came to Vladimir Nabokov via Lolita, the controversial novel that…

By Dan Magers Aimee Parkison’s work defies easy description or categorization. Over the course of over fifteen years and…

A baby titmouse is tucking itself under my elbow. Its beak ajar to let out a tiny snore. I…

I arrive at the airport, sweaty, dazed by drugs, my sweater hiding the chemo port. I haven’t been to…

Scintillant Trudging uphill, I turn onto a deer path then follow the switchbacks you marked with orange streamers until…

Emotions: A Boxed Set Heebie-Jeebies It’s the kind of tail-in-socket anxiety that plugs directly into the body— manifesting in…