Interviews Editor @fullstopmag, MFA @MichenerCenter. Words in @apublicspace @JoylandMagazine @epiphanylit @TSRLitMag &c. kyle at full-stop net
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"The only way I could approach writing something that means this much to me was to find moments of beauty and hope and connection in a very hard and ugly history."
—@Puyana discusses his debut novel, FREEDOM IS A FEAST, with Full Stop's @KyleFWill: full-stop.net/2024/08/20/int….
Kyle Francis Williams retweeted
For far too long the business of bookselling has been romanticised, in effect ignoring that it is a business after all.
My morning today starts with bringing 115 boxes off a UPS truck and into the bookstore. Here's my essay on how we talk about labor in the book industry @PublicBooks : publicbooks.org/there-is-no-…
Kyle Francis Williams retweeted
It’s admirable that “The Art of Libromancy” seeks to deconstruct book-selling, @kylefwill writes, but the book’s allergy to critiquing the forces of capitalism that structure the industry leaves its analysis lacking and its prescriptions limited. buff.ly/41i4zdg
Kyle Francis Williams retweeted
First glossy. It was a joy to profile @sarblakcart for @harpersbazaarus thank you @surlybassey ✨ harpersbazaar.com/culture/ar…
Kyle Francis Williams retweeted
Bookselling is not an art, @kylefwill contends. It is a job.
Read his review of a recent book on bookselling, which he argues obscures urgent conversations about capitalism and labor in the industry: buff.ly/3NnzkIb
Kyle Francis Williams retweeted
TY to those who helped make @fullstopmag's fundraising efforts a success in 2022—and to those who have already supported our 2023 campaign! ✨
Help us raise $1500 this year to make the most of our generous matching grant from @WhitingFdn. DONATE TODAY: tinyurl.com/mwuufyf9!
Kyle Francis Williams retweeted
"I know that what I mean when I say 'love' is what other people mean when they say 'solidarity' or 'support' but to me this work, and the feelings it calls up, has been, in a lot of ways, indistinguishable from love."
—@olivalejandra_ with @KyleFWill: tinyurl.com/mrx5j9dp.
Kyle Francis Williams retweeted
"I'd like to think of the book itself as an act of prayer—a way of . . . turning people's gaze towards the things that matter to me."
This week in Interviews @olivalejandra_ discusses her new memoir, RIVERMOUTH (@astrapublishing), w/ @KyleFWill: tinyurl.com/mrx5j9dp.
Kyle Francis Williams retweeted
I can't thank @KyleFWill and @fullstopmag for this incredible interview--I feel like Kyle got at questions abt the book I hadn't been asked but desperately wanted to talk about and you can see my long-winded answers here:
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Kyle Francis Williams retweeted
Loved talking with @KyleFWill + @fullstopmag about landscape, memory & listening to Aus bird calls on YouTube. I also speak in more detail about the turning stories into a novel, mother-daughter dynamics & what I’ve learned from @NOONAnnual 👼 @Tin_House
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Kyle Francis Williams retweeted
"When it was all so close, I felt like I couldn’t see any of it properly. I found it much more generative to recall the settings from a distance, through memory."
@NOONAnnual ed./debut novelist @Tin_House @madelaine_lucas talks w/ Full Stop's @KyleFWill: tinyurl.com/4x3ynmu9
Kyle Francis Williams retweeted
"There are so many ways in which literature can be great but I always think a good test is whether you’ll be thinking about a book in a month or a year’s time, and Cousins passes that with flying colors."
—Kit Maude interview by Full Stop's @KyleFWill: tinyurl.com/5fspp2vd.
Kyle Francis Williams retweeted
"I don’t set out to make my life difficult but the books I pitch tend to reflect my personal tastes, which I suppose often veer into the weird and wonderful. That’s where the best stuff is!"
—Kit Maude (@softskull) in conversation w/ @KyleFWill: tinyurl.com/5fspp2vd.
Kyle Francis Williams retweeted
Crypto is just one illusion among many in the phantasmal Midwestern City, awash in dreams, rogue programs, and malevolent imps. Read new short fiction by @JezewskaJ, online now.
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Kyle Francis Williams retweeted
interviewed the incredible emmalea russo, whose poetry draws inspiration from bataille, deleuze, weil, texas chainsaw massacre and more... yeah idk how she does it. alchemical
"When it’s working, [poetry] stirs another form of understanding under/around the words. Beyond getting it or not getting it." —In Interviews today, Emmalea Russo discusses her new book CONFETTI (@hyperideanpress) w/ @poetrygrifter: tinyurl.com/yckj5r4a.
Kyle Francis Williams retweeted
holy shit
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Eileen Myles:
ALT At a Waterfall, Reykjavik, by Eileen Myles I still feel like the world is a piece of bread I’m holding out half to you.
Kyle Francis Williams retweeted
"The book is looking for the right word while knowing that none of the words are right. It also moves like thought moves." Chanté L. Reid talks THOT with @KyleFWill at @fullstopmag: full-stop.net/2023/02/28/int…