Few exceptions aside, the most compelling, challenging, absorbing literary art is being produced by small presses and their respective writers.…
The Big Other Contributors List
The contributors list at Big Other recently changed and I’m wondering what the new organizing logic is. Before, the list…
New Books Roundup #1
Alternately bizarre, poignant, and unsettlingly funny, William Walsh’s Ampersand, Mass.—the titular town situated somewhere between Winesburg, Ohio and Yoknapatawpha County—brings…
Edward Mullany’s If I Falter At The Gallows
I had the great pleasure to read Mullany’s book of poems published by Publishing Genius Press, as well as discuss…
Edward Mullany’s If I Falter at the Gallows
Edward’s book is now available. It’s stark, it’s funny, it’s sad–verse reflected by the book’s cover (also by Edward): American…
Big Other Contributors’ News, #23
It’s been a while since I’ve posted news of all our various goings on and whatnot. But everyone at Big…
The Productive Side of Despair: An interview with Edward Mullany
Figures for an Apocalypse In a house at the end of a street of deserted houses, a dog sleeps. The…
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…
Seth Landman’s Invisible Ear
Do you know Seth Landman? If not, you should. I had the pleasure of meeting him a few weeks ago…