Contributions
by Paula Bomer for Full Stop
Writing is its own experiment and we cannot determine whether the experiment has worked until we’ve given it a go.
Writing Across Entire Lifetimes: Joshua Henkin
by Paula Bomer for BOMB
A novel that explores how a family grapples with dementia.
by Paula Bomer for Full Stop
Nefer, the teenage protagonist of the slim, classic Argentine novel January, first published in 1958, is pregnant and doesn’t want to be.
[TW: sexual violence]
All Your Children, Scattered – Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
by Paula Bomer for Full Stop
Underneath the narrative of three broken generations simmers the horrific damage of colonialism, both by the French and Belgian people, by racism, and lastly, and perhaps most confusingly, by fatherlessness.
by Paula Bomer for Full Stop
Teenager shreds the American dream during its long embrace.
w/ Paula Bomer for Full Stop
I’ve come to believe that the people in this world who do really terrible things are the ones who have no space in their minds for evil. I think one of the healthiest things a person can have is a relationship with their propensity to do wrong.
w/ Paula Bomer for Full Stop
We need to speak the name of terrible things occasionally, to touch these things with our imaginations, in order to be reminded that the euphemisms we use are not the thing itself.
by Paula Bomer for Full Stop
Stories are important when we live in a world where the truth is hidden and ugly, a world where most people have so little power over anything, where fate feels like wind, powerful and inexplicable.
You’ll Like It Here – Ashton Politanoff
by Paula Bomer for Full Stop
Doesn’t nostalgia just mean, “I miss you?”
w/ Paula Bomer for Full Stop
A novel isn’t a painting, it’s language that’s been organized until it has the power to bombard pleasurably. The premise that ‘showing’ is somehow more respectful to a reader than ‘telling’ is illogical nonsense.
w/ Paula Bomer for Full Stop
We identify so completely with our own suffering, then wish to visit our suffering upon others in turn. Makes one wish we could just have a nice simple fistfight and be done.
Self Care as Rebellion: An Interview with Jessie Chaffee
By Paula Bomer for Los Angeles Review of Books
In Jessie Chaffee’s debut novel, Florence in Ecstasy, a young American woman travels from Boston to Florence, knowing no one and speaking little Italian.