My personal nomination for the greatest work of literature of the 20th century is Allen Carr’s THE EASYWAY TO STOP SMOKING, followed immediately thereafter by James Joyce’s ULYSSES.
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.
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.
The Full Stop Quarterly Issue #2 Is Now Available
The Full Stop Quarterly Issue #2 is an action-packed, emotionally-satisfying thrill ride.
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.
You Can Now Buy the Very Own Pants of the World’s Worst Artist
Would you pay $2,500 for a pair of pants worn by the world’s worst artist?
The Social Prescience of Fiction
Examining a social conscience in Truman Capote’s early stories.
The University of Cincinnati police ride Segways.
The reality of David Foster Wallace’s life is minimized, if not quite evaded, by what the screenwriter and director omit or massage to keep The End of the Tour on a predictable narrative arc and a comfortable, mostly comic plane.
In the rush to get to the bottom of our own obscure or banal questions, it’s easy to ignore what these predictive searches really are: a kind of social cipher, an anthology of digital anxieties, a collective dreaming.