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From STORY, by Jennifer Firestone

The bar man prepared several ornate tropical drinks repeatedly. Presumably the ambulance crew patiently rattled protocol while lifting. Presumably…

(with appreciation for Italo Calvino) The City of Serena In the beautiful city of Serena, every old woman wears…

Imagine if most anticipated books lists didn’t grossly resemble each other. Imagine if they didn’t simply privilege books from…

Caveat lector: the following pieces of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, etc.—all published this year in Big Other—are feral, that is,…

By D. A. Powell —for Matthew There is no real cure for love, but there is a dry rub. Honey,…

By Peter Markus This boy is but a boy. The boy that he is, he sees what a boy…

By Ewa Chrusciel Long-wattled umbrella bird — Grandiosity Your wattle darkened the whole room. How grand it was;…

By Rodrigo Toscano Rodrigo Toscano: Something I find fascinating about your practice of street poetics is its implicit reception…

V E R G E: she sets type by hand and loves how the spaces between letters and between…

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