Delighted to share that NERVOSITIES, my debut collection of short fiction, was published today! Kapow! NERVOSITIES has received advance praise from some of the world's finest writers, e.g., Rikki Ducornet, Brian Evenson, Lance Olsen, Sam Lipsyte, Garielle Lutz, & Michael Martone.

Looking for recommendations for solo female audiobook narrators, especially those with a strong literary sensibility and a knack for capturing a novel’s voice, rhythms, and tonal shifts. Who are your favorites? Please share names, samples, or links. Thanks!

"Authentic presence is genuineness that radiates both gentleness and brilliance to others. Cultivate inner authentic presence by letting go of selfishness and by regarding other people's welfare as more important than your own." —Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

"To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather the arrows of our enemies, to lash ourselves with the scorpions of our foes, and to resolve to sleep no more." —Sir Thomas Browne

"A voice that calms, movements that calm, eyes that quiet—dreams that also do the same, and enliven, too. Be a precious donor of peace and hope. Give love to all you meet, for so many in this world are being torn apart.” —Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī

"Don’t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand." —Henry Miller

“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” —Leonard Bernstein

“Look carefully around you and recognize the luminosity of souls. Sit beside those who draw you to that.” —Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī

"But that shadow has been serving you! What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.” —Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī

"Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn that anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you." —David Whyte

Happy birthday, @BigOtherMag contributor Rick Moody! Celebrate by reading these Moody texts I published in the journal in 2025! bigother.com/2026/10/18/from…

Seventeen years of unruly words, unexpected crossings, and marvelous becomings! Join us October 24, 2026 at 6:30 p.m. for a @BigOtherMag anniversary reading featuring many extraordinary writers! In person and online at @NewYorkInsight. nyimc.org/event/big-other/

Happy birthday, Oscar Wilde, whose wit and subversive defense of artistic freedom remain as bracing as ever! He understood that art should disturb complacency, that individuality requires disobedience, and that the world takes itself far too solemnly. bigother.com/2026/10/16/osca…

"Our sense of yearning for freedom should be so forceful that we feel as if this conditioned existence is an acute illness from which we eagerly wish to recover as quickly as possible." —The Fourteenth Dalai Lama (Image: Willem de Kooning's Composition (1955))

Happy 70th birthday to the incomparable Lance Olsen! A singular literary innovator, fearless experimenter, and generous intellectual force, Olsen continues to expand what fiction can do and how we see the world. bigother.com/2026/10/14/happ…

Hear, hear! Thanks, Ben!

Enter your book[s] published in 2026 for a chance to win a 2026 @BigOtherMag 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 January 31, 2027. bigother.com/2026/07/27/anno…

I’d never heard of that famous person until you shared the vile thing they said, but now I know who they are. Lucky me! Good thing there aren’t countless brilliant, generous, genuinely interesting people out there doing marvelous things in blessed obscurity!