Cosmogramma – Courttia Newland
These episodic jaunts focus on the difficult choices people make in desperate situations.
Stranger to the Moon – Evelio Rosero
Rosero goads the reader to consider what tenses we’re thinking, dreaming, imagining in, as we hurtle at the precipice, towards a future not by any means assured.
I want to have hope, but I’m also suspicious of all hopeful things. [Laughs.]
Lim’s novel promises the disorientation of a house of mirrors.
Lee’s novel is a representative of a new wave of apocalyptic literature where ecological and societal collapse do not automatically displace personal trauma and toxic social hierarchies, but rather, complicates them, allowing us to fashion new worlds for ourselves in the cracks of our collective disenchantment.
Full Stop founding editors Eric Jett and Alex Shephard dive deep into the world of Jonathan Franzen!
Suffering doesn’t actually have to be a prerequisite for having the right to be creating something, nor does anyone actually have a god-given directive to whittle their suffering into something to be offered up to a market.
There’s a way in which trauma exerts pressure both on our bodies and psyches as well as on our relationship to objects, places, and things.
If You [ ]: Fabula, Fantasy, F**kery, Hope – Colin Fleming
When I read these stories, my brain purrs.
Kearney’s poetic performance is breaking the very institutions that claim to define it — and bend us all, like a horse.