I read 203 books in 2011, or, on average, a little more than one book every two days. You…
The Big Other Interview #253: Mark Brand
Mark Brand is a Chicagoland polymath: editor, writer, videopodcaster, former medical assistant. We met not long before I was a…
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…
Guest Post: Paula Bomer: McCarthy’s Anton Chigurh and the Meaning of Violence
When I wake up and drink my tea, I lie in bed and stare out my window. There is a…
Start Suffering
“You suffer The Lime Twig like a dream. It seems to be something that is happening to you, that you…
“Fat, too, fool, hey?” – The Mind in Morning (Snow in film)
Having just reread William Gass’s “The Pedersen Kid” yesterday morning, I decided to do a study of associations–what my brain…
Guest Post, by Mike Young: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
“Suttree could hear the wheels shucking along the rails and he could feel the ground shudder and he could hear…
Guest Post, By Kyle Minor: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
“They came like a caravan of carnival folk up through the swales of broomstraw and across the hill in the…
Interview with Ken Sparling
Sean Lovelace interviews Ken Sparling for Big Other