Creativity of mind is what imbues literacy with value and life. As such, our society needs nothing more than the imagining inspired by children’s writers such as E. Nesbit, Alison Uttley, and so many other half-forgotten names. To rediscover old books is to explore overgrown paths and rebuild toppled towers.
The week’s best online fiction, with recommendations from FictionDaily’s editors.
Music has the ability to tell stories just as well as texts can.
The week’s best online fiction, with recommendations from FictionDaily’s editors.
Leslie Knope’s Politics of the Public
Though NBC’s PARKS AND RECREATION is a show about political values and public awareness, it’s able to tackle this conversation through the lens of comedy, drawing attention to the fact that sincerity itself is often a more complicated – and much funnier – issue than we’d like to admit.
Full Stop Recommends: Bill Callahan’s guitar-plucking, Wright Thompson’s sports writing, Wikipedia’s Victorian factoids, Ingmar Bergman’s film-making, and Breaking Bad’s American Dream.
The week’s best online fiction, with recommendations from FictionDaily’s editors.
Recently awarded the 2011 Roger Shattuck Prize for Criticism, Marco Roth is a founding editor of the popular magazine n+1. Full Stop interviewed Roth via e-mail and discussed feeling old in your twenties, William Hazlitt, and getting younger.
The week’s best online fiction, with recommendations from FictionDaily’s editors.
From the Mouths of Babes: Karl “The Kaiser” Lagerfeld
If a person is famous for any reason at all, they are doing something right that the rest of us are doing wrong. Period. It’s one of the few universally agreed-upon truths in the confusing times we live in, and a fact we all have to accept before moving forward here today.