Birthday – BIG OTHER

Happy 78th Birthday, Samuel R. Delany!

Today is Samuel R. Delany Day! Celebrate by reading his writing: fiction, memoir, criticism, essays, and letters of the highest…

Happy birthday, Octavio Paz! Here are some quotes from his writing: “Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my…

Happy birthday, Stéphane Mallarmé! Here are some quotes from his writing. “The world was made in order to…

Today is Samuel R. Delany Day! Celebrate by reading his writing: fiction, memoir, criticism, essays, and letters of the highest…

Happy birthday, Octavio Paz! Here are some quotes from his writing. “Art is the opposite of dissipation, in the physical…

Happy birthday, Stéphane Mallarmé! Here are some quotes from his writing. “It is in front of the paper that the…

On the occasion of William H. Gass’s birthday, I’ve cherry-picked sentences from all of his books: a publishing career spanning…

Today, October 14, 2012, marks Lance Olsen‘s 56th birthday. In celebration of him and his work, and with a nod…