Reading – BIG OTHER

From the Archives: Two Poems, by Cole Swensen

Happy birthday, Cole Swensen! Celebrate by reading these Swensen poems we published in 2019!

Happy birthday, Laurie Stone! Celebrate by reading this Stone fiction we published in 2019! Letter I remember a…

Happy birthday, Italo Calvino! Here are quotes from the writer. “What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other…

The Descent of Louise Brooks Matches My Mood all the way back to the sad thirties westerns the progressive…

Happy birthday, Lance Olsen! Celebrate by reading Olsen’s “Beautiful Boy Falling” (which we published last year and is included in…

Twelve years ago today, I launched Big Other, introducing it as “an online forum of iconoclasts and upstarts focusing…

Happy birthday, Roberta Allen! Celebrate by reading “A Way to Go,” which we published in 2019! I see my…

By Ted Morrissey Like many (most?) American readers, I came to Vladimir Nabokov via Lolita, the controversial novel that…

We are pleased to nominate the following fiction, poetry, and nonfiction pieces for inclusion in Sundress Publications‘s Best of the…

By Dan Magers Aimee Parkison’s work defies easy description or categorization. Over the course of over fifteen years and…