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A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: The Tree of Life
[By now it was late. The three stars were dimpling the sky. The baby raccoon was crying for its milk (I’d taken in an orphan the week before). But Jeremy and I weren’t finished yet discussing the...
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#AuthorFail 5: A D Jameson
Is Big Other a failure? Of course, in every way. See the proof below from our own AD Jameson, who ever-so-mildly breaks the rules of this column (submit!: see this), by stating that he might return to...
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Marilyn Monroe Comes to Chicago, 23 Skidoo
So now there’s a giant statue of Marilyn Monroe standing by Tribune Tower, on Michigan Ave: Photo by E. Jason Wambsgans, Chicago Tribune, 15 July 2011. Describing it, the Chicago Tribune writes:...
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Using Viktor Shklovsky
My hero. [This post began as a response to some comments made by Douglas Storm on Amber's most recent post.] The name “Viktor Shklovsky” comes up a lot at this site (I’m guilty of mentioning it in...
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Best of 2011, Part 1
A few days ago, I reached out to writers and other artists across the country to provide me with a list of some of their favorite books, music, films, events, moments, or whatever from 2011, which...
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Big Other Reaches One Million Page Views!
One Million Dots (detail) / Robert Barry. 1968 Thanks to all of Big Other’s contributors and to everyone in our audience! Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: A D Jameson, Amber Sparks, Aya Karpińska,...
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Happy Birthday, Lance Olsen!
Today, October 14, 2012, marks Lance Olsen‘s 56th birthday. In celebration of him and his work, and with a nod to a quote by Roland Barthes, I’ve turned most of the sentences found in the first...
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A David Bowie of Literature?
Is there a David Bowie of literature?—such an asinine question, as dumb as asking, “Is there a Virginia Woolf of music?”—arguing against it arguably as asinine as answering it at all, even on its own...
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Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2016!
Few exceptions aside, the most compelling, challenging, absorbing literary art is being produced by small presses and their respective writers. I asked a number of writers, editors, and publishers to...
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Murdered by Subtlety By the time I was twelve years old, I had begun the long process of removing myself from the living room, from the TV, from my near-comatose father in permanent repose on the...
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