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Announcing the Winners of the 2025 Big Other Book Awards!

Recognizing excellence in literature published in 2025 and supporting the vital work of innovative writers and adventurous presses, we…

Happy birthday, William Butler Yeats! Here are some quotes from his writing: “Words alone are certain good.” …

Happy birthday, Fernando Pessoa! Here are some quotes from his writing: “Be plural, like the universe!” “To…

Happy birthday, Susan Howe! 89, today! Here are some quotes from her writing: “Originality is the discovery of…

Happy birthday, Federico García Lorca! Here are some quotes from his writing: “Only mystery allows us to live,…

Happy birthday, Allen Ginsberg! Here are some quotes from his writing: “You say what you want to say…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Timothy Donnelly! Celebrate by reading Donnelly’s “Four Poems,” which we published in 2026! Immortal…

Happy birthday, Walt Whitman! Here are some quotes from his writing: “I too am not a bit tamed,…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Meg Pokrass! Celebrate by reading these Pokrass fictions (with illustrations by Chris Vaughan), which we…

Happy birthday, John Barth! Here are some quotes from the author: “Self-knowledge is always bad news.” “[F]iction…