Neither doubles nor doppelgangers of one another, Wilson and Carmelina, son and mother, make us rethink the question of lineage in new and unpredictable ways.

Doesn’t nostalgia just mean, “I miss you?”

DeWitt is an iconoclast, a rebel whose heart is with the young and the awkward, with the off-kilter ultra who feels more and knows more than anyone else at the game.

In one week of wandering here, I’d see Rockefeller’s grave, tacos topped with salad dressing, and an abandoned celestial observatory. I’d see a billboard warning of fentanyl donuts or S’Wonderful, the tchotchke store. Poetry can hold all that.

Neither doubles nor doppelgangers of one another, Wilson and Carmelina, son and mother, make us rethink the question of lineage in new and unpredictable ways.

Doesn’t nostalgia just mean, “I miss you?”

DeWitt is an iconoclast, a rebel whose heart is with the young and the awkward, with the off-kilter ultra who feels more and knows more than anyone else at the game.

Who hasn’t wanted to swallow whole the stories we love?

In one week of wandering here, I’d see Rockefeller’s grave, tacos topped with salad dressing, and an abandoned celestial observatory. I’d see a billboard warning of fentanyl donuts or S’Wonderful, the tchotchke store. Poetry can hold all that.

I think the invitation is very much there to root for the Predator as a kind of consequence for and corrective to the historically horrific behavior of humans.

If all we do is oppose suffering, we’ve missed out on something important. . . . We lose something of our humanity.

I’m not too interested in forms that don’t hold onto some sense of wildness, even if just under pressure.

The coven is not only a ritual meeting of practicing witches—it is an aspirational design for the literary establishment.

The Dissenters is not a novel of exile: It is an Egyptian novel in English.

Perhaps Foucauldian controversies are a new annual tradition.

Those suffering from infertility often feel like human lab rats, captive to repetitive, demeaning processes that turn a formerly trustworthy, familiar body into a strange, combative “other,” a husk of stubborn, disagreeable matter.

This episode includes an interview with Keely Shinners, as well as a sound experiment between Ansgar Allen and Mike Carrao.

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Announcing the 2022 Full Stop Editorial Fellows Program

A conversation between novelist Brooks Sterritt and Full Stop contributor Christopher Wood.