STEWART BERG
Author — Editor — Publisher
Stewart Berg grew up split between rural Texas and a Seattle suburb. He began publishing his fiction, non-fiction, and poetry in literary journals starting in 2014, the year he graduated college — most of these early works can now be found in his two collections, The Early Prose and The Early Verse. In November 2019, he founded Falling Marbles Press, a publisher of book-length literary fiction located in Marbles Falls, Texas that, in five years, has grown into the premier publisher of literary fiction in the State of Texas.
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Books by Stewart
The Pentameron
The Pentameron is a reworking of the 15th Century work “Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles.” First translated into English in 1899 by Robert Douglas, this collection is now, for the first time, elevated to the level of Boccaccio’s Decameron and the Heptameron of Marguerite de Navarre with a frame story fitting for it.
The Two Keefes
Two country, cocky righthanders, one hundred years apart. Ring Lardner’s 1916 You Know Me, Al along with Stewart Berg’s You Know Me, Bo.
The Early Prose
Herein lies the early prose output of Stewart Berg, collected together and appearing in print for the first time. Ranging from the personal to the parody and from the serious to the satirical, these works present a decade’s worth (2014-2024) of observations of the world and its worldlings.
The Early Verse
Herein lies the early verse output of Stewart Berg, collected together and appearing in print for the first time. Ranging from the personal to the parody and from the serious to the satirical, these poems present a decade’s worth (2014-2024) of versified observations of the world and its worldlings.
Two Tales of the Fox Family Reynard
Two tales of master manipulators in their most natural element, featuring the classic story of the famous fox who came to be known as Reynard the Great as well as a new story of his grandson, which shows the fox can do just as well in social collapse as social decay.
Poor Chess: A Few Days in the Life of an Idealic King
The story of an Idealic King, featuring a Realand Queen and the general mismanagement of circumstance, containing a few days in the life of Archibald Wisenhunt, the eighteen-year-old all-powerful ruler of Idealia. A parody on the perceptions of power-players, these few days in the life of an Idealic King prove true the saying that the poorest played chess is misplayed checkers.
The Sored Incident: The Edited Interviews of Person-of-Interest #17
A campus has been struck. Sored, the Washington State home of a social media tech giant, has been attacked, and in the smouldering remains, a responsible terrorist organization has been named. Such is the official story, but one is left to question: Is the story, as complex as it may appear, even that simple?
The Catty-Corner Conversations: Fifty Dialogues with the Diagonally Opposed
The Catty-Corner Conversations is a launched attack against assumptions. Final Edition now available with both new and updated content. Now featuring all fifty Conversations as well as an Introduction and Afterword.
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Latest Posts
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- The True King ArthurThe reader who chiefly knows the King Arthur legend through the work of Thomas Malory — or, worse, through any of the large number of lesser derivatives — does himself a great disservice. The original in this case — as is often the case — is the best, and it does, in fact, feature — in Chretien de Troyes — one who is perhaps the most underrated author in the entirety of the Western Canon.
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