Full Stop Quarterly: Fractures
Beware what hasn’t already been fractured.
I love the sample as you love the sample, Tip—for how it can be extracted from the past and stretched over a sound reaching for the future.
The 10 Best Forthcoming Books of 2019
The year’s best forthcoming books, as selected by the editors of Full Stop.
The Full Stop Reviews Supplement #4
[These pieces] demonstrate what book critics can learn from acts of creative reading, finding in them an image of criticism as creative practice.
The visa, like the song, will end, and I’ll be swept back into regular-time.
Shall we take dust as the founding metaphor by which to broach the unruly topic of the essay?
“The daydream emerged as such an unbidden gift.”
From “The Inelegant Translation”
My voice doesn’t sound like my voice to him.
Whereas the medievals associated the “combined object of scent” with the capacity for rational discernment—which implies a kind of restraint—Tony Kushner links it to a sense of excess via sexuality.
The Reality Industrial Complex
Novels should have killed poetry. Television should have killed radio. Digital should have killed paper.