"One of the things I love most about writing fiction is using the real world as a stage for my characters. Most of my writing comes from that place." —From Alejandro Puyana🇻🇪's conversation with Full Stop's Kyle Francis Williams in this week's interview: full-stop.net/2024/08/20/int….

"Ōsaki recognizes our fundamental freedom—a freedom that becomes apparent once we accept that we are little more than noisy animals." fatima | فاطمة reviews Sayaka Ōsaki's poetry collection, NOISY ANIMAL, translated by Jeffrey Angles (#vagabondpress): full-stop.net/2024/08/21/rev….

"Ōsaki's collection moves between death and life, between gravity and lightness, with great dexterity." fatima | فاطمة reviews NOISY ANIMAL by Sayaka Ōsaki, translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles: full-stop.net/2024/08/21/rev….

"As the world’s information is increasingly mediated through just a few companies, issues of censorship are relevant around the globe." —alana mohamed on بثينة العيسى's THE BOOK CENSOR'S LIBRARY (Restless Books), tr. by Ranya Abdelrahman & Sawad Hussain: tinyurl.com/4rm3s7n9.

"What the System wants is not the erasure of meaning, but sovereignty over it." alana mohamed reviews بثينة العيسى's dystopian novel THE BOOK CENSOR'S LIBRARY (Restless Books), tr. from the Arabic by Ranya Abdelrahman and Sawad Hussain: tinyurl.com/4rm3s7n9.

Publishers, the deadline to submit to CLMP's Constellation Award—given to honor an independent literary press that is led by and/or champions the writing of people of color—is next Friday at 11:59 PM ET! The winning press receives $10,000. Submit here: clmp.org/constellation-…

"One thing a poem does is throw a latent voice into a future that then can speak it." Claire DeVoogd discusses her new poetry book VIA (#WinterEditions), with interviewer Abraham Adams: full-stop.net/2024/08/27/int….

"We . . . hid[e] out in th[e] poem in a Boccaccian sense, dilating language to try to make a sanctuary and push away something else." From this week's interview, feat. poet Claire DeVoogd in conversation with Abraham Adams: full-stop.net/2024/08/27/int….

"Hoffman had to translate a Ukrainian particularity into an American one. This task shows the power at the core of the art of translation." From this month's feature, "Rebirth in the Ash Heap of istoriya," by Ian Ross Singleton: full-stop.net/2024/08/29/fea….

"History appears to happen in these . . . domestic places and often has to do with small and domestic feelings such as everyday anger." —From Ian Ross Singleton's essay on Olena Stiazhkina's CECIL THE LION HAD TO DIE (HURI Harvard), tr. by Dominique Hoffman: tinyurl.com/zyxfcdry

"A startling declaration of artistic purpose . . . and a revolt against established genre." ted reviews David Leo Rice's novel, THE BERLIN WALL (Whiskey Tit Books): full-stop.net/2024/08/30/rev….

I wrote about “The Berlin Wall” by David Leo Rice for Full Stop, an inimitable novel of Europe and its nightmares. Whiskey Tit Books

"The [novel's] transgressive content is not deployed merely to shock [but] to make concrete the horror implicit in fascism that is abstracted in political rhetoric." ted reviews THE BERLIN WALL by David Leo Rice (Whiskey Tit Books): full-stop.net/2024/08/30/rev….

"Where the canon has been silent, A MOUTH speaks." Justin Duyao reviews A MOUTH HOLDS MANY THINGS, a collection from #DecanonProject and Fonograf Editions, edited by Dao Strom and Jyothi Natarajan: full-stop.net/2024/09/02/rev….

"I'm very drawn to fiction that renews my senses, renews my language, breaks up the grooves of my thinking, and gives me a style to think with . . ." —Debut novelist Daniel Lefferts, from his interview w/ Aleah Gatto on WAYS AND MEANS (ABRAMS Books): full-stop.net/2024/09/03/int….

"I try to find one thing about [a character] that I really understand. If I can capture that, everything else will bloom around it." From this week's interview, featuring debut novelist Daniel Lefferts in conversation w/ Aleah Gatto: full-stop.net/2024/09/03/int….

Lovely review of our new hybrid anthology A Mouth Holds Many Things (edited by Dao Strom and Jyothi Natarajan) is up Full Stop . Big thanks to Justin Duyao for writing the piece. full-stop.net/2024/09/02/rev…

"Discomfort is the mission. Comic madness is the method. After reading Cannon, there’s no going back to the world you came from." —Chris Robinson on Steve Cannon's raunchy 1969 novel GROOVE, BANG AND JIVE AROUND, newly reissued by #BlankFormsEditions: full-stop.net/2024/09/06/rev….

i can’t remember the last time a book unsettled and wildly entertained me so much at the same time. for Full Stop, i reviewed the reissue of steve cannon’s legendarily “filthy” novel from 1969 (nice), groove, bang, and jive around. full-stop.net/2024/09/06/rev…

"I was out of shape to deal with its provocations . . . There aren't enough trigger warnings in the world." chris robinson reviews Steve Cannon's newly reissued novel GROOVE, BANG AND JIVE AROUND #BlankFormsEditions: full-stop.net/2024/09/06/rev….