Is Bonnefoy suggesting that we read these European colonial narratives as magical realist texts?

To me, the most sensational thing in life, the real trippy thing, is to realize that everyone you know, everyone you hang out with, everyone you’ve ever met: they’re all thinking at all times. To really know that, to really understand that is sensational.

Rumi’s poems shuttle across time, place, belief, and tradition to refresh and guide our wearied spirits

Read through a “full year of wrong thinking, bad decisions, and man-made disasters” and you will get some sense of just how dim Hollywood’s lights and luminaries are.

Is Bonnefoy suggesting that we read these European colonial narratives as magical realist texts?

Rumi’s poems shuttle across time, place, belief, and tradition to refresh and guide our wearied spirits

Read through a “full year of wrong thinking, bad decisions, and man-made disasters” and you will get some sense of just how dim Hollywood’s lights and luminaries are.

[Catrileo] is interested in impurity as political potentiality

To me, the most sensational thing in life, the real trippy thing, is to realize that everyone you know, everyone you hang out with, everyone you’ve ever met: they’re all thinking at all times. To really know that, to really understand that is sensational.

What does it mean to have a fake novel? What does it mean to have a novel that’s thinking, aware of itself as a novel, and thinking about

While facing a totally unknown new phase of my life, I had a feeling that I should push making music. I didn’t know what would happen and I didn’t have many songs written, but I wanted to try. 

In painted portraits you can see the hand of the painter, the gestures, the point of view. All portraits are in a way self-portraits too. I wanted that to happen with this book as well.

Who keeps us safe all those nights? We do, by the stories we tell and the stories we cut apart, with chainsaws and with hearts.

In both memoirs, evidence serves less to solve a crime than to reconstruct a self—both the dead family member and the writer grappling with their loss.

For a while . . . I thought that no one should write about eating disorders at all because there was no way to do so without somehow glamorizing them.

It would be tempting, if you were a theoretical physicist working on the first atomic bomb, to imagine yourself as a demiurge. To frame the process as spiritual longing for God’s wrath . . .

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This special issue of the FULL STOP QUARTERLY will aim to hold folklore as a prism through which to view connection, the self, and the future. . . . It will explore folklore in and as literature, as process, and as performance.

In times like ours, times of fracture, depravity and upheaval—times which are really not that different than any other time on earth, except for the speed and scale at which violence is exercised—what is the value of art?

Read the introduction to our latest issue of the Full Stop Quarterly, “Literary Dis(-)appearances in (Post)colonial Cities.”