Happy birthday, Ted Morrissey! Celebrate by reading this Morrissey essay on Robert Coover’s Noir we published in 2021! Then go…
From the Archives: Five Nonfictions, by Michael Martone
Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Michael Martone! Celebrate by reading these five Martone nonfictions, which we published in 2022! Be…
From the Archives: Robert Coover and Fairy Tales, by Brian Evenson
Happy birthday, Brian Evenson! Celebrate by reading his essay on Robert Coover’s fiction, which is featured in our Robert Coover…
Announcing the Finalists for the 2022 Big Other Book Award for Nonfiction!
We’re excited to announce the finalists for the 2022 Big Other Book Award for Nonfiction. The winner will be announced…
From the Archives: Big Other Folio: Robert Coover
Happy birthday, Robert Coover! 91 today, and still kicking fiction’s keister! Celebrate by reading Big Other‘s folio dedicated to…
(Trans)Forms as Philosophy, by Lance Olsen
Let me begin with a quote: The American writer in the middle of the 20th century has his hands…
On the Art, Artifice, Magic, and Wonder of the Hoax: An Interview with Henry Adam Svec
By Andrew C. Wenaus Information theory is not concerned with meaning; instead, it focuses on the relationships that emerge…
From the Archives: Fading Star, by Ángel Lozada
Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Ángel Lozada! Celebrate by reading “Fading Star” (translated by David Auerbach), which we published as…
Announcing Big Other’s Best of the Net 2022 Nominations!
We are pleased to nominate the following comics, fictions, nonfictions, and poems for inclusion in Sundress Publications‘s Best of the…
The Coal of St. Lawrence, by Debra Di Blasi
The martyrdom story of Saint Lawrence (who gave away the Church’s riches to the poor) may have originated from a…









