Podcast #14 – Mr. Difficult

This episode includes an interview with Keely Shinners, as well as a sound experiment between Ansgar Allen and Mike Carrao.

A conversation between novelist Brooks Sterritt and Full Stop contributor Christopher Wood.

Full Stop founding editors Eric Jett and Alex Shephard dive deep into the world of Jonathan Franzen!

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."

We discuss travel writing, its pitfalls, and what might come after the pandemic ... if there's really going to be an after.

Full Stop contributing editor Allison Noelle Conner talks with poet and conceptual artist Gabrielle Civil.

A conversation between Tristan Foster and Kyle Coma-Thompson, co-authors of the new book 926 YEARS.

A conversation between Turner Canty, a writer and musician based in Oakland, and Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger, better known as eteam.

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