Announcing the Full Stop Editorial Fellows
We’re excited to announce the 2022 Full Stop Editorial Fellows: Ching-In Chen and Gillian Joseph!
Communing with the mineral/rock world is also another way for me to contemplate time, and to understand that the destructive/creative geologic processes are always underfoot.
Lost in the Long March – Michael X. Wang
[The novel’s] layering surpasses anything like theme or plot and suffuses into a kind of aesthetic ethos which justifies the old saying: The novelist picks up where the historian has to stop.
Health Communism – Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant
Health Communism thrives with the inbound hope of any manifesto—the naming of violence as a source of potential political revolution.
Though Kivland resolved not to speak about herself, the pages are dotted with first-person asides in brackets: dreams, flashes of memory, brooding.
The curse and hex lie alongside the charm and balm. Rhetoric has no team, rhetoric has no flag.
Everyone should be so lucky to be wholly consumed at least once in life.
For any seducer, whether it is Prince or a more proximate old flame, withholding is the grammar.
The Maladaptation of White Noise
Perhaps there is a tablet, a Dylar that actually works, that would make me forget Baumbach’s movie as the Gladneys wanted to forget death.
On some level, memories can feel like locked rooms that you might enter at will and find a moment perfect and unchanged. But . . . those perfectly preserved rooms are shifting and changing constantly, as we are.