Writing – Page 2 – BIG OTHER

Georges Perec on Writing, Space, the Uninhabitable, and More

Happy birthday, Georges Perec! Here are some quotes from his writing: “Space is a doubt…” “Why not…

Happy birthday, Peter Markus! Celebrate by reading Markus’s “This Boy’s Tongue,” which we published in 2019 and was subsequently selected…

Happy birthday, Brendan Lorber! Celebrate by reading these Lorber poems we published in 2019! After that, go read Lorber’s…

Woebot We are one extraordinarily confessing animal. The mere act; said bonds with unsaid. Translation rarely picks up the…

Happy birthday, Ralph Ellison! Here are some quotes from his writing. “The act of writing requires a constant…

Libraries of Time I cook listening to the book, drive listening to the book, sit in waiting rooms reading…

only an instant: the time that it takes for their faces to fall apart () oh, the distance that…

Happy birthday, Suzanne Stein! Celebrate by reading this conversation Stein had with Rodrigo Toscano, which we published in 2020! …

Happy birthday, Anaïs Nin! Here are some quotes from the writer: “The role of the writer is not…

Happy birthday, David Foster Wallace! Here are some quotes from the writer: “The truth will set you free. But…