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December 10, 2025December 10, 2025 - Awards, News, Reading, Writing

Announcing Big Other’s Nominations for Best Microfiction 2026!

  We are pleased to nominate the following fictions for inclusion in Best Microfiction 2026:   Kim Chinquee’s “Break the…

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December 10, 2025 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Clarice Lispector on Life, Death, Writing, and More

  Happy birthday, Clarice Lispector! Here are some quotes from the author:   “Everything in the world began with a…

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December 10, 2025 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Emily Dickinson on Life, Death, Books, and More

Happy birthday, Emily Dickinson! Here are some selections from her writing:   “To live is so startling it leaves little…

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December 8, 2025 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

The Room Without Dreams, by Lance Olsen

  In ten hours, the surgical resident Syd’s day at the hospital will be behind her and she will meet…

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December 7, 2025 - Birthday, Books, Politics, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Noam Chomsky on Freedom, Power, Democracy, Justice, and More

  Happy birthday, Noam Chomsky! 97, today! Here are some quotes from the linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic,…

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December 5, 2025 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

When No One Was Sure About the World, by Yi Zhou

Translated from the Chinese by Chen Zeping and Karen Gernant   I actually got together with Ginger when the pandemic…

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December 4, 2025 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

Father, by Cao Kou

Translated from the Chinese by Chen Zeping and Karen Gernant    One morning last spring, my father fed the chickens…

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December 4, 2025December 5, 2025 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Rainer Maria Rilke on Art, Writing, Language, and More

  Happy birthday, Rainer Maria Rilke! Here are some quotes from the writer:   “Let everything happen to you: beauty…

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December 3, 2025 - Birthday, Poetry, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: Rift, by Elizabeth Robinson

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Elizabeth Robinson! Celebrate by reading “Rift,” which we published in 2024! And then read Robinson’s…

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December 2, 2025 - Letter from the Editor, Reading, Small Presses, Writing

Today Is Giving Tuesday! Will You Support Big Other?

Dear Reader, Art, artists, and arts organizations are under attack. Under the guise of cutting government spending, some of the…

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