Happy birthday, Bradford Morrow, writer and editor par excellence! Over the years, Big Other has published reviews of Morrow’s…
Big Other Folio: Micheline Aharonian Marcom
The current folio includes an excerpt from Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s novel-in-progress, The Nothing on Which the Fire Depends, my…
Draining the Sea and the Simulation of Trauma, by J. S. DeYoung
“Draining the Sea was less about exploring character and more about how in language trauma sustains itself and manifests.…
“All War Is Deception as Is All History”: Structure and Time in The Daydreaming Boy, by Jeffery Renard Allen
The aesthetic and thematic concerns of Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s layered and contradictory novel The Daydreaming Boy hinge on a…
Rapture, a Bull-Hook, a Puzzle, by Rikki Ducornet
Focused on fearless inquiry into the Armenian genocide of 1915–1923, Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s Three Apples Fell from Heaven is…
The Language of Discontent, by Lisa Gulesserian
Two separate events spurred the fierce discontent that compelled Micheline Aharonian Marcom to write her first three novels—a trio…
What You See Is What You Don’t Know: Thoughts upon Entering and Exiting Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s The Brick House
Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s The Brick House deliberately and evocatively disrupts easy summary and interpretation, inviting instead multiple, open-ended impressions…
“Outgrowths and Trimmings”: The Short Fiction and Poetry of Sam Savage
By Jeff Bursey Sam Savage’s fiction is filled with characters that stand askew from life. They are outcasts, isolates,…