I look up to Michael Schaub very much, and I want to add that while I’ve never met him in person, I consider him a dear friend.
And Michael Schaub is someone who is always engaged with the literature he’s covering his passion for it is apparent. The aim of Full Stop is to publish criticism that is always engaging with the work itself, and less the baggage that comes with it. And I’m not just talking about his accomplishments - including being the managing editor of Bookslut - but more importantly, I’d like to reach his skill as a writer: reading Michael Schaub’s criticism is important on a sentence-by-sentence level and there are few people in the business who I would say that about. And when I think about where I want to be in ten years (Michael Schaub is ten years older than I am) I’d like to be at the point that he’s at. There is no one, at any age, who writes criticism that is as engaging and as lucid as his - it embodies the art itself.
When we came up with the idea to start a series featuring “young critics” whose work we admired, I couldn’t think of anyone better to begin with than Michael Schaub. Each month we feature a young critic we admire and ask them a series of questions about their work and their perspectives on writing today.
