Reading – BIG OTHER

“Maybe the challenge for the novelist is to stretch his art and his language, to the point where it can finally describe what’s happening around him.”

Happy birthday, Don DeLillo, maestro of maestros! 83, today! Meeting and three times speaking with Don DeLillo at last…

Happy birthday, Nadine Gordimer! Here are some quotes from the author. “As a writer, I’m a composite intelligence.”…

Happy birthday, Margaret Atwood! 80, today! Here are some quotes from the author. “I walk around in a…

Happy birthday, José Saramago! Here are some quotes from the author. “Deep down, I don’t create anything. I’m…

Happy birthday, Chinua Achebe! Here are some quotes from the author. “People create stories create people; or rather…

Happy birthday, Marianne Moore! Here are some quotes from the author. “Poetry is a magic of pauses…not a…

Happy birthday, Roland Barthes! Here are some quotes from the author. “Language is a skin: I rub my…

Happy birthday, Kurt Vonnegut! Here are some quotes from the author. “So it goes.” “There is no…

Happy birthday, Fyodor Dostoyevsky! Here are some quotes from the author. “Men reject their prophets and slay them,…

Happy birthday, Imre Kertész! Here are some quotes from the author. “But I believe in writing—nothing else; just…