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From the Archives: An Oblation, by Tobias Carroll

Happy birthday, Tobias Carroll! Carroll is also an inaugural Big Other Literary Citizenship Awardee. Celebrate by reading this Carroll fiction…

Happy birthday, Sylvia Plath! Here are some quotes from her writing: “The blood jet is poetry, / There…

Objects are arguments. But bodies are feuds. Sardonic allegories No longer suffice. The bodies Were corralled, divided, and Ransomed…

We are pleased to nominate the following pieces published in 2022 for The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses…

Happy birthday, Ursula K. Le Guin! Here are some quotes from the writer: “To learn which questions are unanswerable,…

By Brian Strang I have been an avid reader and fan of Andrew Joron’s poetry and essays for over…

Happy birthday, Oscar Wilde! Here are some quotes from the writer: “[A]ll sentences are sentences of death.” …

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

Happy birthday, Michel Foucault! Here are some quotes from the philosopher and historian: “But couldn’t everyone’s life become a…

Happy birthday, Friedrich Nietzsche! Here are some quotes from the philosopher. “Is it better to out-monster the monster…