“It never ceases to startle me that a brilliant thinker can be such a bad writer. It challenges some of…
Marie Calloway, My Lover (Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Just Love Tao Lin)
I recently wrote an article about failure. The text received moderate attention. I was glad about that. I like attention.…
The cover of Roxane Gay’s AYITI reminds me of the opening credits for PANIC ROOM
Which is also to say—
#AuthorFail 11: Roxane Gay
Welcome, fellow duds, also-rans, has-beens, and cast-offs. I had followed Roxane Gay’s intriguing online posts over the recent years, and…
Joseph Riippi’s THE ORANGE SUITCASE
Amber Sparks already wrote a fantastic and comprehensive review of Joseph Riippi’s The Orange Suitcase for Big Other, which you…
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…
Highlights from Artifice Magazine, Issue One
It’s always nice to get a beautiful art object in the mail, and so I was happy to receive Artifice…
Look at this fucking writer: Roxane Gay
When my youngest brother was born (he has since been known as The Baby, even until today), my other brother and…
A New Big Other Contributor!
Please welcome Roxane Gay to Big Other. Roxane’s writing appears or is forthcoming in Mid-American Review, DIAGRAM, The Collagist, Hobart, Monkeybicycle,…
Roxane Gay’s Best of 2009
Best Novella Tina May Hall’s All The Day’s Sad Stories I’m not sure if this came out in 2009 but…