I want vicarious immersion in a novel; I don’t wan’t to continue the sort of emotional performativity social media require.
I love the mediated intimacy of the internet, and the way it enables an aspect of me to have a relationship with aspects of a lot of other people.
I think that writing becomes significant through labor. The cherished things online, whether they be profitable or not, clearly spring from a place of great effort, even if in the end that effort is, as it usually should be, invisible.
Books We Missed: AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CORPSE
Krzhizhanovsky comes across as a kind of Mikhail Bulgakov on drugs.
Books We Missed: ROT, RIOT, AND REBELLION
It is hard to overstate the debauched, terroristic nature of the students at UVA; if you’ve seen Sam Peckinpah’s STRAW DOGS you might have a pretty good idea.
Here’s a look back at some of our favorite, most thought-provoking, funniest, and weirdest conversations of 2013.
Best of the Book Reviews, 2013 (in No Particular Order)
In 2013, through the immeasurable support of its contributors, Full Stop ran 93 reviews on new and reissued books by young, innovative, in translation, and otherwise under-appreciated writers.
Best of the Blog 2013 (part 2)
When panic takes over, the arbitrary program that decides asylum, notes towards a study of anthropomorphism, and the revolutionary aspects of coffee beans. We conclude our look back at the best of the blog.
Best of the Blog 2013 (part 1)
The mysteries of the axolotl, the swan song of the booty call, Reagan as Trojan Horse, and one conspicuous Novelist exposed as a con man: it’s all here in our 2013 blog recap (stay tuned for Part 2 tomorrow)
The year’s best books, as selected by the editors of Full Stop.