If this coast-bound itinerancy is the late-twentieth century American dream—Didion and manifest destiny and all that—what happens when cost of living and barriers to entry inhibit all but the most fortunate few, when even the honest trade of writing is reduced to a pipe dream for the nation’s finest literary talents?

If you don’t howl with the wolves, the wolves will howl for you.

Coover, Vollmann, Wallace, and Gayl Jones — I believe these big, wide-ranging books are postmodernism’s best, for the Bullshitters engage more directly and profoundly than the Artistes with significant cultural subjects.

THE WORD FOR WOMAN IS WILDERNESS might better be named Patriarchy Happens (Even in the Woods).

If this coast-bound itinerancy is the late-twentieth century American dream—Didion and manifest destiny and all that—what happens when cost of living and barriers to entry inhibit all but the most fortunate few, when even the honest trade of writing is reduced to a pipe dream for the nation’s finest literary talents?

THE WORD FOR WOMAN IS WILDERNESS might better be named Patriarchy Happens (Even in the Woods).

Burgess’s lecture comes across as pat and facile as it does because he wanted more than anything to show the Maltese that he and his books weren’t a danger to anyone thank-you-very-much and can-I-have-my-fucking-books-back-please.

In Gingerbread, Oyeyemi dismisses the idea of a single indisputable account of events.

If you don’t howl with the wolves, the wolves will howl for you.

I wanted to create a situation that Trump would not be able to actually catch up to in reality.

If I’m the god of my characters, I hope I’m a flexible one.

For me the great thing about anthropology – and the reason I remain an anthropologist – lies in this freedom that it grants its practitioners to roam intellectually.

Coover, Vollmann, Wallace, and Gayl Jones — I believe these big, wide-ranging books are postmodernism’s best, for the Bullshitters engage more directly and profoundly than the Artistes with significant cultural subjects.

The figs you eat have the bodies of the dead who tried to enter those to whom they are the same rather than those to whom they are different—Leviticus tells us such things are an “abomination,” and this fruit is your caution as it is your knowledge.

In Southeast Asian film and culture, the pontianak has grown ubiquitous as an undead woman, cursed with immense beauty and monstrosity. This icon is at the center of Sharlene Teo’s Ponti, a novel that chronicles the lives of three misfit women.

For García Márquez, anecdotes always served as kernels of truth, experiences both whittled down to their most elemental and novelistic tales in need of being fleshed out.

We’re excited to announce the launch of the Full Stop Patreon, which will help us continue to pay our writers well into the future.

This special issue of the Full Stop Quarterly is dedicated to Graduate Student Unionization efforts.

In the immortal and ominous words of Prince Buster, “Enjoy Yourself, it’s later than you think.”

Full Stop invites applications for two Full Stop Fellows. These 6-month long fellowships are intended to facilitate the research and writing of emerging critics on an extended, open-ended project investigating some aspect of contemporary literary culture.