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Stanley Elkin on Writing, Sentences, Fiction, and More

Happy birthday, Stanley Elkin! Here are some quotes from his books and interviews: “Make a thing that never…

Happy birthday, Thomas Pynchon! 85, today! Here is Against the Day‘s Jesse’s school essay on “What It Means to…

Happy birthday, Annie Dillard! 77, today! Here are some quotes from her writing: “Write as if you were dying. At…

By JC Holburn As the invasion began in Ukraine and all manner of opinions gushed in, I kept wondering— “What…

Inspired by Ai Weiwei’s manifesto for life and creativity, which I chanced upon this morning, I drafted this manifesto for…

Happy birthday, Rikki Ducornet! 79, today! Addressing “our culture’s disdain for the artist,” Rikki Ducornet in my podcast with…

Or, Epic Outtakes from The Maze of Transparencies: Penelope and Ulysses, a Virtual Love Story By Karen An-hwei Lee …

Happy birthday, Victoria Redel! Celebrate by reading this suite of poems we published in 2019! Six of these poems…

Happy birthday, Bradford Morrow, writer and editor par excellence! Over the years, Big Other has published reviews of Morrow’s…

Excursus (1) More houses greet daylight as it careens off course and enters wherever it can from east/each …