Few exceptions aside, the most compelling, challenging, absorbing literary art is being produced by small presses and their respective writers.…
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…
Rose Metal Press Announces Fifth Annual Short Short Chapbook Contest
Dear Rose Metal Press Supporters: A reminder for those of you who write short shorts, or know people who do:…
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…
Buffalo ArtVoice Flash Fiction Archive
There’s been some new pieces lately so I wanted to refresh this. Mark Doten “The Spider and Salt Hearts: A…
Interview with Ken Sparling
Sean Lovelace interviews Ken Sparling for Big Other
My Favorite Books from 2009 (in alphabetical order):
I’ve read over 120 books in 2009, and by the time the year is up I’ll have reviewed over fifty.…
Farewell Sean Lovelace!
Please join me in sending off Sean Lovelace. He’s leaving to become a contributor at Html Giant. His zany, provocative…
Big Other Contributors’ News #7
J.A. Tyler‘s book THE ZOO, A GOING has officially been contracted for publication with Dzanc Books, 2013. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Molly Gaudry…
Genre and Its Discontents
Piggybacking on Sean Lovelace’s post about genre, I offer this provocative recent interview with Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., coeditor of the…