Joe Sacksteder

Jul 10, 2024 | conjunctions.com | Joe Sacksteder

Marcie decided on Vertigo because she’d recently encountered several texts in quick succession that made extensive reference to it: Chris Marker’s time travel film told in still images, La Jetée, Terry Gilliam’s unlikely Hollywood adaptation, 12 Monkeys, and a story by Bennett Sims called “White Dialogues” about an embittered academic seething in an auditorium during a lecture being given by the hot new thing in Hitchcock studies.

Mar 8, 2024 | full-stop.net | Joe Sacksteder

[Schaffner Press; 2023]Tr. from the Spanish by Andrea G.

Dec 1, 2023 | theadroitjournal.org | Joe Sacksteder

Bennett Sims spent a year in Rome at the American Academy after having received the Rome Prize for Literature, and the influence of his time there is evident in his new collection, Other Minds and Other Stories, just out from Two Dollar Radio. The very short opening and closing stories are ekphrastic meditations on photographs by fellow Academy fellow Sze Tsung Nicolás Leong, the first one of a mummy, the second of a mosaic depicting Medusa.

Nov 30, 2023 | full-stop.net | Joe Sacksteder

This essay was first made available last month, exclusively for our Patreon supporters. If you want to support Full Stop’s original literary criticism, please consider becoming a Patreon supporter. Knowing that I was a conflicted fan of Werner Herzog, a student of mine who works at a bookstore got me an advance copy of what is widely being called the eighty-one-year-old Bavarian filmmaker’s “first novel,” The Twilight World.

Nov 5, 2023 | bigother.com | Joe Sacksteder

By Joe SackstederTobias Carroll’s new novel, Ex-Members, immerses readers in the punk scene of New Jersey in the 1990s, but the story’s gravitational pull is less that of the Alphanumeric Murders, the fictional band whose history it documents, and more that of one particular building in the fictional city of New Dutchess.