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July 27, 2022July 28, 2022 - Awards, Books, Event, Featured, Fiction, News, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading, Small Presses, Writing

Announcing the Deadline and Guidelines for the 2022 Big Other Book Awards!

  We are excited to announce the deadline and guidelines for the 2022 Big Other Book Awards! The awards aim…

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June 10, 2022July 4, 2022 - Featured, Fiction, Folio, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading, Translation, Writing

Puerto Rican Writers Folio: A Hauntology

  Digressions Toward an Introduction to Big Other’s Puerto Rican Writer’s Folio: A  Hauntology John Madera, Editor   Three Poems…

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June 10, 2022June 10, 2022 - Folio, Nonfiction, Reading, Translation, Writing

Fading Star, by Ángel Lozada

Translated by David Auerbach   This hand I’ve been dealt is awfully heavy. In the first place, it’s nearly impossible…

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June 10, 2022June 10, 2022 - Folio, Nonfiction, Reading, Writing

Grace Notes, by Kenning JP García

  December says it’s time to make some space for so much that is so long gone. the leaves heard…

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June 10, 2022June 10, 2022 - Folio, Nonfiction, Reading, Writing

Two Nonfictions, by Hilda Lloréns

  The Garden of Rooted Memories I come from the plant people. I know this because I am possessed by…

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June 10, 2022June 16, 2022 - Folio, Nonfiction, Reading, Writing

Exactly Like Nobody, by Michele Carlo

  In the Seventies, my family lived through Vietnam, Watergate, hippies, Black power, Gay power, Women’s Lib, and the infamous…

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June 10, 2022July 11, 2022 - Folio, Nonfiction, Reading, Writing

Digressions Toward and Away from an Introduction to Big Other’s Puerto Rican Writers Folio: A Hauntology

“The more invisible something is / the more certain it’s been around.” —Joseph Brodsky “[B]eauty is a defiance of authority.”…

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April 1, 2022 - Birthday, Nonfiction, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: Always Arriving a Little Too Early: A Nocturne, by Pedram Navab

  Happy birthday, Pedram Navab! Celebrate Pedram Navab’s birthday by reading this essay we published in 2019!   It would…

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March 25, 2022June 28, 2022 - Awards, Books, Nonfiction, Reading, Small Presses, Writing

Announcing the Finalists for the 2021 Big Other Book Award for Nonfiction!

  We are excited to announce the finalists for the 2021 Big Other Book Award for Nonfiction. The winner will…

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March 18, 2022 - Featured, Nonfiction, Reading, Writing

Five Nonfictions, by Michael Martone

  Upside-Down (Chestertown, 1988) Robert Day was showing me around the Literary House on the campus of Washington College. The…

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