September 30, 2020
Today is International Podcast Day! Happy International Podcast Day! Celebrate by listening to my feature on John Madera’s THE BIG OTHER‘s legendary arts, culture, and politics podcast, Jamming Their Transmission! You can download or listen streaming to an animated conversation about Among the things, topics, people, etc., mentioned and/or discussed are art, writing, poetry, prose, music, beauty, horror, race, sex, gender, books, The Hope of Floating Has Carried Us This Far, A Long Curving Scar Where the Heart Should Be, James Reich, small presses, Tobias Carroll, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Slaughter Parties (her forthcoming book), Coffee House Press, Stalking Horse Press, Monique Wittig, Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree, Leon Forrest’s There Is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden, Stanley Elkin, John Hawkes, Alejandra Pizarnik, Zora Neale Hurston, Paul Celan, Tacita Dean, Morgan Parker‘s There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce, Jean Toomer’s Cane and Essentials: Definitions and Aphorisms, Hélène Cixous, Aimé Césaire’s Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, Clarice Lispector, Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera, Unnameable Books, William Faulkner, the Torah, the 1611 KJV, John McManus, Salman Rushdie, collaboration, and repetition. And colors. And dogs!
Big Other is an online arts and culture magazine, published since 2009. It features fiction, poetry, art, hybrid works, reviews, essays, interviews, a podcast, and more. Big Other is edited and managed by John Madera.
The Big Other has published work by Pulitzer Prize winners Rae Armantrout and Forrest Gander, National Book Award winners Daniel Borzutzky and Arthur Sze, Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy Samuel Delany, and a host of other stellar writers.