There is no element of craft that is more important to me than tone, and I work best when I’m working with a tone that is somehow at odds with itself, or at odds with the subject matter, or both
The Numero Group: Rob Sevier and Ken Shipley
We’ve had a manifest destiny mindset since the beginning. Our goal is to be the largest AND best independent catalog company in the world, which means making left turns at right turn only intersections.
Pool Party Trap Loop – Ben Segal
Segal’s work stands alone in its strange, winding, sudden candor.
St. Aubyn and the Death of the Existentialist Novel
In today’s economy, a death sentence is no longer a reason to reflect upon one’s essence but a moneymaking opportunity.
Encyclopedic Encroachment: Defining the Micro-enyclopedic Novel
Each encyclopedia has its own white whale.
The Full Stop Quarterly Issue #2 Is Now Available
The Full Stop Quarterly Issue #2 is an action-packed, emotionally-satisfying thrill ride.
The Story of My Teeth – Valeria Luiselli
The wider current to which this book belongs probably cannot sustain many more publications of this type without incurring some sort of backlash.
A Brief History of Name Fuckery
You can glance at my byline and gather who I am, who I might be—I don’t have to disclose my race to you. Nor can I avoid it, in the same way it’d be impossible for me to hide my race from you on the street.
Wrack Lariat – Heller Levinson
In these Hinges, “How much of” acts as the pivot for each poem, there is usually one word as the particle, and a line or two as the postulate, which causes the whole piece to surge with contemplative meaning.
Unreal Loyalties in the Museum
Old-guard museum loyalists have come to associate photography of artworks with inattention and disrespect. But that attitude is itself unfaithful to the possibilities of the museum.