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Elders – Ryan McIlvain

by Caitlin Greene

The weight of ambivalence is greater than any final oath.

My thoughts tend to run toward worst-case scenarios and I’m quick to misread social cues or assume the worst, and because it’s the way I process data, I have to assume it’s going to keep showing up in my writing.

Boyun Eğme // Don’t Bend Your Neck

by Hannah Klein

I don't know what's going to happen to Gezi Park, to Istanbul, to Turkey, and I don't know where I'll be when whatever happens does, but it would be a shame to know that I lived in Istanbul for the protests in 2013 but missed out on revolution-köfte.

Features

Full Stop Recommends (June, 2013 Pt. II)

by The Editors

Full Stop recommends some love and war.

Full Stop Recommends (June, 2013 Pt. I)

by The Editors

Full Stop recommends two big ballads, a sex cult, and getting out of your head.

WRECK-IT RALPH: a Primer for Dads on Smashing Patriarchy

by Greg Pollock

There is no ideal world for a person that pre-exists one's participation in creating it. But here’s what Ralph and I can do: hurl our fumbling selves against the world. Smash it up real good.

Interviews

Christopher Hacker

with Paula Bomer

We need to speak the name of terrible things occasionally, to touch these things with our imaginations, in order to be reminded that the euphemisms we use are not the thing itself.

Karen Russell

with Jordan Kisner

If given my druthers, everything I write would be some B horror movie "Swiss Family Robinson" situation. That just seems to be where I live, narratively.