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When I see Google’s protracted, kid-friendly versions of complex concepts, they do not inspire peace of mind. In fact, these minimalist panels remind me of something that has been making me quite uneasy — my ever more “personalized” Google search results.

Before Portland, Seattle. Before Portlandia, Almost Live!

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Almost Live! functions as an immaculate time capsule of the frumpy boomtimes that once graced the Emerald City.

Pam Houston

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Writing is gratitude. It is like writing a thank you note to the world.

Football and Fracking

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Football and fracking are both inherently dangerous, inherently dirty and immensely appealing.

Confessions of a Fan Photographer

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Full Stop editor Max Rivlin-Nadler has a piece up now over at The Classical (which we like, a lot) about his time as fan photographer at Madison Square Garden. We recommend it.

Flatscreen – Adam Wilson

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Wilson’s characters frequently cross paths, but rarely unite. They drift in the same space, but despite their common inertia, they can only glance off one another, touching, but only briefly, superficially.

Full Stop Recommends (February 21, 2012)

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Recommendations for reading, watching, looking, listening, and doing from Full Stop editors.

Digested Reads, Pre-Digested

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It’s kind of an expressionist critique of writing that less holds the authors’ flaws up to a mirror than creates a grotesque sock puppet caricature of the work; mimicking the tone while throwing the voice.

Leigh Stein

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With our generation, there isn’t any shame. We’ll say anything. We’ll say what we make an hour, or we’ll say what our rent is; we’ll just share it.

Call for Contributors

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Full Stop is a putting out a call for contributors. If you’re interested in writing for us, here’s how to get in touch.