Death by Landscape – Elvia Wilk
Scene after scene, whether in stories or theory, of death by landscape, make clear the pervasive crisis that climate has become on Earth.
One can always start afresh after having died several times . . . like re-routing whenever one is lost while using Google Maps.
Podcast #15 – Brooks Sterritt & Christopher Wood
A conversation between novelist Brooks Sterritt and Full Stop contributor Christopher Wood.
Grief is a measuring of distances, ones that cannot be narrowed or crossed.
Tractatus Philosophico-Poeticus – Signe Gjessing
Gjessing, in many ways, flips Wittgenstein’s directive on its head, writing poetry as one might write philosophy.
Through this text, Civil has recorded time, unraveled memory, and reckoned to create a document that is both of its time and of past/future time.
As a Non-Mother: Brandi Katherine Herrera’s MOTHER IS A BODY
Those suffering from infertility often feel like human lab rats, captive to repetitive, demeaning processes that turn a formerly trustworthy, familiar body into a strange, combative “other,” a husk of stubborn, disagreeable matter.
Full Stop Quarterly: Fall 2022
What does it mean to join a fight one no longer believes one can win? In our latest issue, writers confront the malaise and suspicion of cynicism.
Jeff Alessandrelli and Alexis Orgera
We’ve each written books that feel more personal and intimate to share (particularly at readings) than we expected. . . We both feel naked in front of the classroom, so to speak.
Neither Weak Nor Obtuse – Jake Goldsmith
No one escapes, no one is physically invulnerable, we are all prisoners of a cruel chronicity.