December says it’s time to make some space for so much that is so long gone. the leaves heard…
Two Nonfictions, by Hilda Lloréns
The Garden of Rooted Memories I come from the plant people. I know this because I am possessed by…
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…
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.”…
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…
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…
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…
From the Archives: Big Other Folio: Robert Coover
Happy birthday, Robert Coover! 90, today, and still kicking fiction’s keister! Celebrate by reading Big Other‘s folio dedicated to Coover,…
Writing What You Don’t Know: Poetry and the Arcane
By Tony Trigilio It’s early-autumn 1993 and I’ve just sat down for an office-hour appointment with my Northeastern University…
Announcing Big Other’s Best of the Net 2021 Nominations!
We are pleased to nominate the following fiction, poetry, and nonfiction pieces for inclusion in Sundress Publications‘s Best of the…