'I don't know how I would feel if I read myself as a character in someone else's work. It must be—what’s that feeling? Disorienting, maybe.'
This week in Interviews, Erin Malone & Jessica Johnson discuss Malone's new book, SITE OF DISAPPEARANCE (@Ornithopterpoem): full-stop.net/2024/05/28/int…

I LOVED Site of Disappearance and was happy that I got to ask Erin some questions about it and trace possibly some poetic lineage here. Highly recommend this book for people working with grief, image, archives, and private and public narratives.

'So much of my memory is flattened, two-dimensional . . . snapshots . . . I think the work of the image is to try to animate those memories.'
Erin Malone w/ interviewer Jessica Johnson on her new poetry book, SITE OF DISAPPEARANCE (@Ornithopterpoem): full-stop.net/2024/05/28/int….

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'Isn't that the point of a story, to bring people together? A story that does not bring people together, it's propaganda, it's not a story.'
—Sven Popović w/ interviewer Eamon McGrath on his novel LAST NIGHT, translated by Vinko Zgaga (Dalkey Archive): full-stop.net/2024/05/24/int….

'I remembered to enjoy the characters and just to listen to the characters and let them do their own stuff. That's when writing became fun for me again.'
Bonus interview this week! Novelist Sven Popović (Dalkey Archive), w/ interviewer Eamon McGrath: full-stop.net/2024/05/24/int…

'For [Debré's] narrator, desire appears as liberation, what the rigid world of shitless boredom kept from her.'
—chris robinson on Constance Debré's novel PLAYBOY, translated to English by Holly James: full-stop.net/2024/05/22/rev….

constance debré’s playboy is thrilling: a child of the aristocracy lights a match of queer desire and sets fire to her straight, bourgeois life. raw, wild, and sexy, though a little too tough for its own good. i reviewed it for Full Stop. full-stop.net/2024/05/22/rev…

'A coming-out story of propulsion, escape velocity, dead weight, and trade-offs.'
chris robinson reviews PLAYBOY by Constance Debré, tr. from the French by Holly James Semiotext(e): full-stop.net/2024/05/22/rev….

'Once I decided on a story I wanted to tell about my life, I reflected on which film would resonate with it and somehow complicate the story I wanted to tell.'
—SPLICE OF LIFE out now 🎉 on his new memoir, SPLICE OF LIFE (@SFWP), w/ interviewer K.E. Semmel (pre-order The Book of Losman): full-stop.net/2024/05/21/int….

'In the course of living, are we acting? In the act of remembering, are we editing life?'
This week's in Interviews: a conversation between SPLICE OF LIFE out now 🎉 + K.E. Semmel (pre-order The Book of Losman) on Jensen's new memoir, SPLICE OF LIFE (@sfwp): full-stop.net/2024/05/21/int….

THE SINGULARITY reflects and refracts a terrifying moment in the lives of two refugee mothers. It scares the reader with bodily decay, alienating narrative voices, and haunting memories. Thanks Fitzcarraldo Editions for the review copy and Full Stop for the platform!

'Juxtaposing gore and everyday hurt, the narrator imbues a familiar subject—social hypocrisy and racializing prejudice—with a disconcerting aura.'
Jess Jensen Mitchell reviews THE SINGULARITY by Balsam Karam, tr. from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel (@FeministPress): full-stop.net/2024/05/20/rev…

'Wise children are eerie, cursed ones are heartbreaking.'
Jess Jensen Mitchell reviews Balsam Karam's novel THE SINGULARITY, translated by Saskia Vogel (@FeministPress): full-stop.net/2024/05/20/rev….

📢 The Poetry Translation Centre is recruiting for a new Editor!

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'Bodily and narrative distortion fuse the heroines’ stories, as each woman gives way to darkness.'
Jess Jensen Mitchell reviews THE SINGULARITY by Balsam Karam, tr. from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel (@bookhugpress Feminist Press Fitzcarraldo Editions): full-stop.net/2024/05/20/rev….

One week! 🚨 Join Full Stop next Saturday, 5/25, at Lot 49 Books in Philadelphia for a poetry reading featuring Charles Theonia, Jasmine Gibson, and Will Newman.
Free entry | Free drinks by Humanrobotbeer

'The reader’s journey is . . . straightforward: we are to witness a daughter try to reach her mother, that ever-elusive weathervane.'
Anna Learn reviews SALT by Adriana Riva, translated from the Spanish by Denise Kripper (@BooksVeliz): full-stop.net/2024/05/17/rev….

'Capitalist modernity renders mothers and daughters as autonomy-desiring 'units'; SALT reveals the ache of this separation.'
Anna Learn reviews SALT by Adriana Riva, translated from the Spanish by Denise Kripper (@BooksVeliz): full-stop.net/2024/05/17/rev….

'LONESPEECH is a dialogue edited down to a poem, its minimalism acknowledging the blank space around its 'cut-out' phrases.'
—Venya Gushchin + Iloe Ariss on Ann Jäderlund's LONESPEECH (Ensamtal), tr. from the Swedish by Johannes Göransson (@nightboatbooks): full-stop.net/2024/05/16/rev….