Note: This was originally published November 10, 2010. A few months ago, in April, to be exact, I started…
Big Other’s Birthday Tribute to William H. Gass, 2012
It’s probably too easy a move to begin my very brief remarks about Gass’s use of architecture as a metaphor…
Christopher Higgs’s “Fifty Literary Pillars”
To build this list, I asked myself: “If somehow my brain was erased, what fifty books would be needed in…
Best of 2011, Part 2
Lots of great things happened in 2011 for Gary Amdahl, Donald Breckenridge, Tobias Carroll, Aaron Gilbreath, Johannes Göransson, Dylan Hicks, Christopher…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: An Anthology, of Sorts
A few months ago, in April, to be exact, I started a series of posts entitled “A Sentence About a…
Happy Birthday, Big Other!
With sites (especially blogs, I’d imagine) coming and going, resembling fairweathered friends with their weighty promises and concomitant lack of…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Christopher Higgs
“Every word was once an animal.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson Because it serves as epigraph to one of the…
Experimental Fiction as Genre and as Principle
Christopher Higgs at HTMLGIANT recently posted this question: “If you were teaching a class on American experimental fiction, what texts…
Farewell Christopher Higgs!
Please join me in sending off Christopher Higgs. His “Recovery Project” posts and his thoughts on books, music, and film…
Big Other Contributors’ News #6
Molly Gaudry and Kim Chinquee have been translated into Polish, alongside Matt Bell, Jamie Iredell, Claudia Smith, and a number…