Reading – BIG OTHER

June 24, 2022June 24, 2022 - Awards, Books, Event, Featured, Reading, Small Presses, Writing

Announcing the Winners of the 2021 Big Other Book Awards!

Delighted to announce the winners of the 2021 Big Other Book Awards! The awards aim to recognize excellence in literature…

June 22, 2022 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Octavia E. Butler on Habit, Freedom, Writing, and More

Happy birthday, Octavia E. Butler! Here are some quotes from her writing. “There’s nothing new under the sun, but…

June 20, 2022June 21, 2022 - Art, Comics, Featured, Reading, Writing

Seven Comics, by Belle (Bom) Kim

June 19, 2022June 19, 2022 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Salman Rushdie on Language, Literature, Freedom of Expression, and More

Happy birthday, Salman Rushdie! 75, today! Here are some quotes from his books and interviews: “Go for broke. Always…

June 18, 2022June 18, 2022 - Books, Featured, Interview, Reading, Small Presses, Writing

From the Archives: An Interview with John Keene, by Jeffery Renard Allen

Happy birthday, John Keene! Celebrate by reading Jeffery Renard Allen’s epic conversation with Keene, about the latter’s Annotations and Counternarratives,…

June 18, 2022 - Archives, Birthday, Fiction, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: Four Crônicas, by Rone Shavers

Happy birthday, Rone Shavers! Celebrate by reading these Shavers crônicas we published in 2019! Crônica No. 1: On the…

June 18, 2022 - Folio, Poetry, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: Three Poems, by Edwin Torres

Happy birthday, Edwin Torres! Celebrate by reading the three Torres poems we published this year in Puerto Rican Writers Folio:…

June 10, 2022June 18, 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…

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

Three Poems, by Edwin Torres

I’m Almost Done with the Enveloping Vamoose to order a coffee — as the world waits for your name to…

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

Roots and Routes, by Carmen Bardeguez-Brown

Hungry Ghost “Time flies over us but leaves its shadow behind.” —Nathaniel Hawthorne It has been so long.…