Episode 16 begins with an interview between Full Stop contributor Keely Shinners and interviews editor Hannah Lamb-Vines.



Shinners is a writer and editor based in Cape Town, South Africa. Their debut novel, How to Build a Home for the End of the World, is available from Perennial Press.



Next, we present a sound experiment between writers and artists Ansgar Allen and Mike Corrao.



Allen is the author of books including A Short History of Cynicism, as well as the novellas Wretch and The Sick List, which our review called “a timely examination of higher learning’s malaise.”



Mike Corrao is the author, most recently, of Rituals Performed in the Absence of Ganymede, which we described as extremely precise yet “determinedly enigmatic.”







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In this episode, we’re featuring a conversation between novelist Brooks Sterritt and Full Stop contributor Christopher Wood.



Brooks Sterritt is the author of The History of America in My Lifetime, which came out last year from Spuyten Duyvil.



Christopher Wood is a frequent Full Stop contributor, most recently with an essay on Slavoj Zizek and the Coronavirus pandemic.



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Full Stop founding editors Eric Jett and Alex Shephard have started a new podcast series, which dives deep into the world of . . . Alastair Crowley . . . Just kidding, it’s Jonathan Franzen! They love him, they hate him, they love him. It’s a complicated thing they have with him. And they’re joined by writer Erin Somers to discuss all of Jonathan Franzen’s books, leading up to this newest book, Crossroads.



So we present the podcast’s pilot episode, on Franzen’s first book, The Twenty-Seventh City. You can get more episodes of the podcast here.



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On this new episode of the Full Stop podcast, we’re featuring an interview between fiction writer and critic Greg Gerke, and writer and editor Gabriel Blackwell. Gerke’s essay “An Adultery” ran on Full Stop last year, and he’s the author of See What I See, a book of essays, and Especially the Bad Things, a collection of short stories, both published by Splice. An expanded version of See What I See is out now. Blackwell is the author most recently of CORRECTION, which contains 101 short story-essays. Or something approaching that. It’s pretty experimental.

This month on the podcast, we’re featuring an interview from earlier this year between audio producer Nicole Kelly and Kamala Puligandla, the former editor-in-chief of Autostraddle.com, whose new book ZigZags was released last year by Not A Cult. In a review on Full Stop, Sarah Sophia Yanni calls the book “a poignant reflection on alienation in adulthood and the continuous evolution of the brown, queer body."

This month on the podcast, we’re featuring a few Full Stop editors, as well as Full Stop Fellow Nabil Kashyap, discussing the future of travel writing. As the worst wave of the pandemic continues to batter America, the idea of a reopened world seems very far off. But this gives us some time to reconsider travel writing, its pitfalls, and what might come after the pandemic . . . if there’s really going to be an “after.”

This month on the podcast, we’re featuring a bit of a throwback. It’s a conversation between Full Stop contributing editor Allison Noelle Conner and Gabrielle Civil, a poet and conceptual artist. And you might notice there’s no mention of the ongoing pandemic or the protests against police violence and in support of black lives. That’s because this was recorded in the beginning of March, right before the first lockdown orders went in place.



But everything discussed is still incredibly relevant and most likely even more so than back then — writing in Full Stop last year, Laura Wetherington described Civil’s new book, Experiments in Joy, as “a book about documenting a black woman’s performance art in the face of historical, cultural, and practice-based erasure. This is a book for Civil’s ancestors and for the future. This is a book about reaching out to strangers and inviting them to help imagine the future.”

This month on the podcast, we’re featuring a conversation between Tristan Foster and Kyle Coma-Thompson, co-authors of the new book 926 Years, a series of twenty-two linked stories ruminating on imagination and god and life. It goes deep. It goes there.



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This month, we’re featuring a conversation between Turner Canty, a writer and musician based in Oakland, and Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger, better known as eteam. Full Stop has previously described them as a group that creates “relationally unstable, highly situational art that operates at the intersection of land art, conceptual aesthetics, social practice, and a hyper-saturated use of the Internet.”



Their new novel, Grabeland, was released this winter by Nightboat Books.



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Novelist and critic S. D. Chrostowska discusses her new book, The Eyelid, with fellow novelist Tamara Faith Berger.



Discussed: Dreaming as the seeds of mental poetry, utopia, state terror, and the “The Third Reich of Dreams.” Y’know, all the good stuff.



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Amina Cain (c) Polly Antonia Barrowman





During this time of quarantine and pandemic, we can think of no better authors to discuss health and illness than these two for our new podcast episode.



Author Amina Cain (whose new book Indelicacy is out now!) talks with Full Stop editor Caren Beilin (whose new book Blackfishing the IUD is also out now!) about illness, health, medical gas-lighting, slowly unraveling, and more!



We also bid farewell to our wonderful interns, Symantha Kehr and Emily Sienkiewicz. We wish them well!



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This month is a special Full Stop Podcast episode, where several editors hop on the mic to announce the Inaugural Full Stop Fellows (and then speak with them!). 



The fellows will develop long-form literary criticism project which will span the entire Full Stop universe for the next six months. First up? The podcast. 



So, without further ado, announcing the fellows!



* Rebecca Ruth Gould: Rebecca’s project will explore the links between translation and activism, include a focus on recent translations of James Baldwin by Palestinian students.* Nabil Kashyap: Nabil’s project will focus on travel writing, looking at why we don’t take travel writing seriously (and why maybe we should!) and what types of experiments are happening within the genre. 



Rebecca and Nabil are in conversation with Interviews editor Mike Schapira, Features editor Helen Stuhr-Rommereim, and Reviews editor Jesse Miller. 



We couldn’t be happier to have Rebecca and Nabil as our inaugural fellows. 



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Jennifer Croft







In 2019, Olga Tokarczuk won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature. We don’t want to go into details about why the award was issued a year late (or who won the 2019 award), so let’s just focus on Tokarczuk’s work by speaking with someone who knows her best and is responsible for presenting her work to the English-speaking world.



In this month’s podcast, Magdalena Edwards interviews fellow translator Jennifer Croft, who works with Tokarczuk among many, many other authors.



You can check out Croft’s tribute to Tokarczuk here, and look out for our forthcoming review of Croft’s novel HOMESICK. 



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In the mainstream media and collective consciousness, Valerie Solanas has been written off as a worthless artist, remembered only for her violent act against Andy Warhol.
All of this got author Chavisa Woods thinking about unconscious bias, and what it takes for us to denounce a female artist’s historical worth as opposed to what it takes for a man.
We talk with Chavisa about her essay for Full Stop from earlier this year, as well as her new book, 100 Times.
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We are really excited to share with you our second episode of the Full Stop Podcast, which ties into our most recent special quarterly issue on Graduate Student Organizing.
Full Stop interviews editor Mike Schapira talks to Hailey Huget about her quarterly essay “Paying to Work,” about the student/worker distinction. Hailey has been organizing with Georgetown Alliance of Graduate Employees, a union that represents approximately one thousand graduate workers, for the past several years. Then, Mike speaks with Dennis Hogan who co-wrote the quarterly essay “With or Without U,” about labor laws, where they came from, and why they kind of suck for graduate students.  Dennis is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Brown University. He has been organizing with SUGSE since 2015.
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Dear readers,
For over eight years, Full Stop has engaged in an earnest, expansive, and rigorous discussion of literature and literary culture. We’ve been committed to giving writers a space to review books from small publishers, to interview authors and artists, and to explore the strange and fascinating places in our broader culture. From its beginning, Full Stop‘s aim has been to compensate writers in an industry where literary criticism is deeply undervalued. It’s with that mission in mind that we’re excited to announce the launch of the Full Stop Patreon, which will help us continue to pay our writers well into the future.
As part of the launch of the Patreon, Full Stop is announcing some new ways we’ll continue to highlight the unknown, the precarious, and the as-yet unrealized.

* The Full Stop Newsletter: Each month, Full Stop will send a new piece of literary criticism directly to your inbox (which is a different way of reaching you then having you come to our website!). Future essays touch on such topics as the Midwestern gothic, kitchens in the post-Soviet world, and the decolonizing potentialities of the archive.
* The Full Stop Podcast: We’re so original with the names! Each month (and often more), Full Stop will send some audio brilliance your way from the editors. Future episodes includes interviews with authors, theorists and activists, and also some insight into the NBA draft from Full Stop editors. You can listen to the first episode of the Full Stop at our Patreon page now, no donation necessary. In this episode, editors Eleanor Gold, Allison Conner, and Max Rivlin-Nadler, discuss what Full Stop does, why we review what we review, and take a delightful field trip to the Los Angeles Festival of Books. Patrons will have early access to future episodes, but they’ll all be available eventually in our podcast feed, as well as on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify.
* The Full Stop Quarterly: This is staying! But we’re changing how people can subscribe to it. You guessed it — by becoming a supporter to our Patreon. We’re honoring our existing subscribers through Gumroad, but all new subscribers will go through the Patreon. Today, May Day, also marks the release of our newest issue, a special edition on Graduate Student organizing. Become a supporter and we’ll have it in your hands today!

Full Stop is run by an editorial collective made up of volunteers, so all money generated through the Patreon goes directly to the writers and artists that make Full Stop what it is. All material released to our supporters through the Patreon will eventually be released for free on the Full Stop website, in keeping with our goal of finding the widest possible audience for everything we produce.
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