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…
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…
From the Archives: The Alluring Obscurity of Noir: A Lesson Before Writing, by Ted Morrissey
Happy birthday, Ted Morrissey! Celebrate by reading this Morrissey essay on Robert Coover’s Noir! It was my great fortune…
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…
The Weight of Lost Objects, by Dawn Raffel
The bracelet—a double, really, made of two gold strands—was a college graduation gift from my elegant great-aunt. This was…
Tell Me a Story That Isn’t a Means to an End
By Joan Frank Sometimes we decide to see what we need to see. Any articles coming from a cherished…