S.D. Stewart's Blog

My erasure texts made using Mary Shelley’s novel The Last Man have been nominated for Best of the Net. Thanks to Genrepunk for the nomination and for publishing the work earlier this year.

I’ve been working with erasure again lately, and while doing so, it occurred to me that many of the resulting texts, as with standard poetry, can benefit from a reading of the piece aloud. In the past, I had made audio recordings for one or two erasures, but I plan to experiment with doing it […]

My interview with Ansgar Allen has been published at Heavy Feather Review.

My review of Ansgar Allen’s novel The Faces of Pluto is up today at Heavy Feather Review. …Allen organizes the book into a sequence of text blocks of varying lengths that twine together, repeating and reexamining its ideas throughout, offering space for us to ruminate on them and second-guess our credibility.

My erasure texts made from Mary Shelley’s novel The Last Man are up at Genrepunk. Unfortunately, the audio file of my reading is not working, and I’ve not been able to get in touch with the editor. However, you may listen to it below:

While in general 2024 was hit-or-miss (with the unspeakable horror of November 5th as the most egregious example of a miss), I am pleased to report that it was at least a fine reading year. Looking back on previous end-of-year book posts, it seems that I was past due for a good year, and so […]

Reread October 2024. Still fantastic. Still an all-time favorite. Original 2019 review below. Much how Bruno Schulz’s masterpiece of 20th century literature The Street of Crocodiles defies adequate description, so too does this book by Max Blecher, affirmed by this edition’s two introductions, both of which rely heavily on extended quotations from the book itself […]

atavistic explorations beneath the surface. the interior and the exterior—the lateral moves—the steps forward and back…you know the ones—so polished the reflection blinds. [how is it. how is it that. how is it that this sentence never seems to end…] regress to monolithic state as the state itself plunges toward annihilation. all the time, all […]

I really loathe the idea that all points in a fiction must be clear, followed-up on, and understandable like an instructional guidebook; life is just not like that. Even small moments in our lives contain such profound opacities. —Stacey Levine, interviewed by Ted Pelton, Rain Taxi (Vol. 29, No. 2, Summer 2024)