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Full Stop

Founded in 2011 to resist the conglomeration of book publishing and the ever-narrowing avenues for literary and cultural criticism, Full Stop publishes criticism with an emphasis on debuts, works in translation, and books published by small presses. Our writers and editors give rigorous attention to works without substantial financial backing or cultural recognition, or that may not be covered elsewhere. Proud to collaborate with emerging and underrepresented writers, Full Stop publishes reviews, interviews, and feature essays online, along with two to four digital quarterlies per year.

From Full Stop: All-Night Pharmacy – Ruth Madievsky reviewed by Liv Albright. 

Ruth Madievsky’s pill-popping debut diversifies the male-dominated genre of addiction narratives by introducing a queer, female voice, whose colorful lifestyle is perhaps more galvanizing than that of her male forebears. Despite the sedating effects of the opioids the narrator consumes, Madievsky’s prose is clear and insightful, rivaling William S. Burroughs’s dizzying classic, Naked Lunch (1959), in which the kaleidoscopic writing reflects the muddled state of its author. Unlike Burroughs’s male-driven fiction, Madievsky’s debut provides insight into the making of a female addict. In All-Night Pharmacy, the narrator struggles to reprocess her traumas into a coherent identity. Her fragmented self illuminates issues of mental health stigma and intergenerational and sexual trauma. With intuitive prose, Madievsky transforms the narrator’s struggle into a narrative strength.

I meant to show this to CC, who has become quite incognito since she moved from her old place. Having read Burroughs' Naked Lunch, this sounds much more insightful.

These I bookmarked when I was thinking about a Byzantine black powder army defeating the Turks:

1. What would a Black Powder Byzantine Army look like? 
2. byzantine artillery
3. The Role of Artillery in Byzantine Military Strategy

The following are for a play I still want to do about Indiana:

1. Indiana racial violence history
   
2. The History of Hate in Indiana: How the Ku Klux Klan took over Indiana's halls of power

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