Guthrie Ramsey
As someone who cares about the reputations of these musicians that I write about, I don’t want to participate in the further exiling of them to this weird corner of American music history.
Full Stop Recommends, Fall 2013 (pt. 2)
“This is the point,” Herzog tells the viewer, gesturing to the 179 meter mark, “where ski-flying becomes inhuman.”
Features
Awakening the Dead: Film and the Technologies of Wonder
Hugo traces a history of movie technology, but it also gestures towards something far more elusive and far-reaching: a modern history of the desire for pictures that come to life.
Full Stop Recommends, Fall 2013 (pt. 1)
"I have no health insurance," you say, "and there is a hole in my sock." Let us point you to some novels, short stories and animated gifs that will improve your outlook.
We Always Promise: The Making of Partia e Fortë
Kosovo's satirical "Strong Party" makes visible the perversion of the nation's political-ideological status quo.
Interviews
Daniel Alarcón
What’s wrong with reading to get to the good stuff?
Simon Critchley
In reading, we become ghosts. In reading, we can leave the Earth and, as it were, inhabit a different realm.
Nicholson Baker
The powerlessness of words is what interests me.
Blog
Cops Off Campus
It was a raucous but peaceful affair; a self-organized march to the entrance of the previously occupied library. Just before we reached it the police descended, filling the road with wagons and running through the crowd to block the entrance.
Into the Real: A Screen Addict’s Quest for Authenticity
I felt like a newborn, cutting my own umbilical cord and emerging naked, both literally and figuratively, from the womb of my own self-absorption.
Assimilation versus Liberation in Queer Publishing
When I sent out a story to be considered for Best Lesbian Erotica 2014, I could not have imagined the tangled internal politics that would ensue, nor could I have imagined that those politics would culminate in the censorship of my work.
Reviews
Stop Here – Beverly Gologorsky
Our sympathy might not be enough.
Seiobo There Below – László Krasznahorkai
The existence of this book suggests art represents a chance worth taking.
The Mehlis Report – Rabee Jaber
Some critics suggest that Jaber, who writes prolifically, needs to slow down or submit himself to an editor’s scissors. But The Mehlis Report makes for a glorious ramble, a leaping of the lines between investigation and gossip, between present and past, between life and death.
