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November 11, 2025November 11, 2025 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Fyodor Dostoyevsky on Life, Lies, Suffering, and More

  Happy birthday, Fyodor Dostoyevsky! Here are some quotes from the author:   “What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.”…

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November 5, 2025 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

John Berger on Art, History, Politics, and More

  Happy birthday, John Berger! Here are some quotes from the writer:   “The past grows gradually around one, like…

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November 4, 2025 - Books, Reading, Review, Writing

Uncanny Humor: A Review of Robert Lopez’s The Best People

By Joe Sacksteder   In the 2001 black-and-white space cowboy musical, The American Astronaut, writer/director Cory McAbee sought to write…

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November 1, 2025 - Birthday, Books, Politics, Reading, Writing

Edward Said on Culture, History, Criticism, Imperialism, and More

Happy birthday, Edward Said! Here’s a PDF of his book very much pertinent book The Question of Palestine. And here…

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November 1, 2025November 1, 2025 - Poetry, Reading, Translation, Writing

From the Archives: Two Poems from Erroneous Song, by Antonio Gamoneda

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Katherine M. Hedeen! Celebrate by reading “Two Poems from Erroneous Song,” by Antonio Gamoneda, which…

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October 31, 2025 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

Like a Sermon in the Mud, by D. Harlan Wilson

  I had only planted the clockseeds yesterday. Not only that, the air was dry as an empty lung. And…

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October 31, 2025October 31, 2025 - Birthday, Fiction, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: An Oblation, by Tobias Carroll

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Tobias Carroll! Celebrate by reading this Carroll fiction we published in 2019! Carroll was an…

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October 30, 2025 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

Carrion Bull, by Jason Schwartz

  The crying room—a fancy of certain Northern homes, earlier in the century—is simply a chamber off the parlor, to…

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October 29, 2025 - Featured, Poetry, Reading, Translation, Writing

Censored Haiku and Translations of Matsuo Bashō, by Rick Moody

  Censored Haiku this one talks about [    ] and [    ] and the dark [     …

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October 26, 2025October 26, 2025 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

1/5040, by Cao Kou

Translated from the Chinese by Chen Zeping and Karen Gernant   Note from the author: This story comprises seven parts…

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