Lim’s novel promises the disorientation of a house of mirrors.
Lee’s novel is a representative of a new wave of apocalyptic literature where ecological and societal collapse do not automatically displace personal trauma and toxic social hierarchies, but rather, complicates them, allowing us to fashion new worlds for ourselves in the cracks of our collective disenchantment.
Full Stop founding editors Eric Jett and Alex Shephard dive deep into the world of Jonathan Franzen!
Suffering doesn’t actually have to be a prerequisite for having the right to be creating something, nor does anyone actually have a god-given directive to whittle their suffering into something to be offered up to a market.
There’s a way in which trauma exerts pressure both on our bodies and psyches as well as on our relationship to objects, places, and things.
If You [ ]: Fabula, Fantasy, F**kery, Hope – Colin Fleming
When I read these stories, my brain purrs.
Kearney’s poetic performance is breaking the very institutions that claim to define it — and bend us all, like a horse.
Kinderkrankenhaus – Jesi Bender
Jesi Bender is an adroit magician of the reshuffled phoneme. The author deconstructs and reconstructs language through verbal play, and in the process reveals that new worlds can be coined, just as words can.
A novel isn’t a painting, it’s language that’s been organized until it has the power to bombard pleasurably. The premise that ‘showing’ is somehow more respectful to a reader than ‘telling’ is illogical nonsense.
Every year when THE SOUND OF MUSIC aired on the local station, we were not allowed to watch it because my grandmother hated Julie Andrews, whom she considered an adventurous prude, a category of women she despised.