A Guide to My Writing Here at Big Other
I’ve done a lot of posting since I started writing here (in December 2009). To make it all easier to…
You Must Remember This, a Hiss Is Just a Hiss
Whenever I hear someone say that a written word, like “said,” is invisible, I usually cringe, since I don’t think…
Reading Stanley Elkin’s Searches and Seizures: “The Condominium”
“The Condominium,” the third and final novella in Stanley Elkin’s Searches and Seizures, features another rather garrulous “hero,” this time…
Ignorance Is a Kind of Sickness
Have you seen Geoff Dyer’s I’m-just-thinking-out-loud-here piece: “My literary allergy,” a pseudo-contrarian response to the work of David Foster Wallace,…
Norman Lock’s Latest Book Has Been Released!
Norman Lock‘s new book, Pieces for Small Orchestra & Other Fictions, has just been published by Spuyten Duyvil. I’ve been…
Our New Contributor!
Please join me in welcoming Andrew Taggart to Big Other. Andrew Taggart is a philosophical counselor living in Brooklyn. With…
Reading Stanley Elkin’s Searches and Seizures: On “The Bailbondsman”
If you’ve been following along with us here at Big Other, you know that in January we read and discussed…