Reading LITTLE BIRD is a bit like reading a dream journal by someone who took her dream journal very seriously: someone who never got bored or cynical, someone who remained committed to communicating with her subconscious, someone in love with what language can do to reality.

This process is non-linear and has gaps.

One reads in what becomes a surrender to a waking dream-state where language, isolated from its context, becomes seriously playful and casually transcendental.

Taken together, this is not only a good book, it’s a book of possibility, one that lays out the risks, dangers, and rewards of unconventionality.

Reading LITTLE BIRD is a bit like reading a dream journal by someone who took her dream journal very seriously: someone who never got bored or cynical, someone who remained committed to communicating with her subconscious, someone in love with what language can do to reality.

One reads in what becomes a surrender to a waking dream-state where language, isolated from its context, becomes seriously playful and casually transcendental.

Taken together, this is not only a good book, it’s a book of possibility, one that lays out the risks, dangers, and rewards of unconventionality.

Dallas in particular, makes weirdos, the truth of whose identities are more fruitfully explored at a bar stool than in a congressional commission.  

This process is non-linear and has gaps.

Theater is a fabulous place to explore what futurists call predictive modeling, every scenario has been worked through in world theater.

On a meta-level, every book is epistolary, right? A reaching out for connection, a message in a bottle.

Embodiment demands hybridity.

To the reading eye, a solid block of text suggests a takeover. It demands immersion. It may not be easy to find your place once you look up from the page. It reminds us of the body’s limits.

Each letter is a flexing, embodied interweaving of queer theory, Black studies, music, eros, intellect, art, friendship, religion, body, breath

Look closely, and all things seem to have been touched by someone’s pain—all things optical, chemical, mechanical. Everything blossoms in destruction, everything is a deathly flower.

Fast-paced political publishing still exists, often a display of the power and potential that lies in thinking big and publishing “small.”

I feel recognition and deep memories weltering like crop rows going fallow.

A conversation between fiction writer and critic Greg Gerke and writer and editor Gabriel Blackwell.

A conversation between audio producer Nicole Kelly and Kamala Puligandla, former editor-in-chief of Autostraddle.com and author of ZigZags.

We’re excited to announce the 2021 Full Stop Editorial Fellows: Nico Millman and Kudrat Wadhwa!!!