Reading – BIG OTHER

Georges Perec on Writing, Space, the Uninhabitable, and More.

Happy birthday, Georges Perec! Here are some quotes from his writing: “Space is a doubt…” “Why not…

Happy birthday, Gabriel García Márquez! Here are some quotes from his writing: “A novelist can do anything he…

We are excited to announce the finalists for the 2020 Big Other Book Award for Nonfiction. The winner will…

Happy birthday, Peter Markus! Celebrate by reading Markus’s “This Boy’s Tongue,” which we published in 2019 and was subsequently selected…

Happy birthday, Brendan Lorber! Celebrate by reading these Lorber poems we published on March 20, 2019! The working…

By Cynthia Atkins Raw, raucous, ominous, redemptive, Micah D. Zevin’s debut collection, Metal, Heavy, sifts through a destroyed civilization’s…

I asked a host of writers, editors, publishers to send me a list of their favorite books published in…

We are excited to announce the finalists for the 2020 Big Other Book Award for Poetry. The winner will…

Join us April 8, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. for the 2020 Big Other Book Awards Ceremony! In recognition of…

The current folio is a Festschrift celebrating Robert Coover, commemorating his 89th birthday, yes, but also casting a critical…