"I do not smooth into groups." —A. R. Ammons, "Sphere: The Form of a Motion"

"Doubt equals writing." —Marguerite Duras, WRITING

"Writing comes like the wind. It’s naked, it’s made of ink, it’s the thing written, and it passes like nothing else passes in life, nothing more, except life itself.” —Marguerite Duras, WRITING

“Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." —Leonardo da Vinci

"The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way." —Marcus Aurelius

"A writer is a foreign country." —Marguerite Duras

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor David Ohle! Celebrate by reading this Ohle fiction I published in the journal in 2023! bigother.com/2025/09/02/fro…

Delighted to publish a marvelous quartet of new poems by Lisa Russ Spaar in Big Other today! bigother.com/2025/09/04/fou…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor @T_Morrissey! Celebrate by reading this Morrissey essay on Robert Coover's NOIR I published in the journal in 2021! bigother.com/2025/09/05/fro…

Enter your book[s] published in 2025 for a chance to win a 2025 Big Other Book Award! The awards aim to recognize excellence in literature and to promote and support the work of innovative writers and adventurous presses. Deadline is December 31, 2025. bigother.com/2025/06/23/ann…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Dawn Raffel! Celebrate by reading these Raffel fictions I published in the journal in 2020! bigother.com/2025/09/10/fro…

To take pleasure in someone's murder is not only to debase and dehumanize yourself but to also help sustain a context where murder is not only possible but necessary.

"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth." —Theodor W. Adorno

Delighted to publish "Young Tide," a marvelous short story by Can Xue translated by Karen Gernant, in Big Other today! bigother.com/2025/09/11/you…

Avid readers of Hungarian literature translated into English, like me, are indebted to exemplary translator George Szirtes, so you can imagine my delight to soon publish a folio of Hungarian poetry translated into English by Szirtes in Big Other! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sz…

"Joyous we too launch out on trackless seas, Fearless for unknown shores on waves of ecstasy to sail." —Walt Whitman