Full Stop Recommends (August 1, 2012)
Full Stop’s recommendations for reading, watching, and listening in August, the most peaceful month.
The Woman at the Table: Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron is clearly someone who grew up in love with the snappy patter and verbal gymnastics of classic screwball romances, but she made only a halfhearted attempt to achieve those same heights in her own movies.
Inalienable Resurrection: Tan Lin’s The Patio and the Index
If we can find birds on the pages of books, and gods within concrete, it does not seem fantastic to encounter our parents inside of their pots and patios.
Fantasies of Contact: Erica Baum, Susan Howe, and the Poetics of Paper
The most enduringly interesting meditations on paper are always more than acts of mourning or expressions of nostalgia.
The Situation in American Writing: Blake Butler
The nebulous enemy is not terrorism, it is us. I mean that in the kindest way.
The Terrible Affliction of Beauty
“You wish to speak about beauty and the modern world,” Mishima would say while lighting a hand-rolled cigarette. “I wrote about this back in ’59…Surely, Professor Scruton, you’ve read my book?”
Full Stop Recommends (June 5, 2012)
Full Stop contributor recommendations for reading, watching, and doing.
The scent of madness is in the air.
Here is the problem: our culture still offers men a broader spectrum of acceptable personality types than it does women.
The Situation in American Writing: Eileen Myles
The desire to make a living as a writer is a true perversion in this culture but I think we need our perverts more than ever.