I don't go online when I'm writing - that's the devil's workshop - but in general, I'm on there as much as any other global citizen. Stacey D'Erasmo citizendevilgeneral Change image and share on social
I'm a huge fan of San Francisco. And I was out here for a couple years in the mid-'90s when I was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Stacey D'Erasmo 90scouplefan Change image and share on social
The railroads needed standardized time; as a result, the technology of train travel shaped the way everyone gets up, eats, goes to sleep, calculates age, and, perhaps of no small importance, imagine the world as a whole, ticking reliably, with reliable deviations, according to the beat of one central clock in a physical location. Stacey D'Erasmo agecalculatecentral share on social
In my darker moments, I feel like the Queen of England, bound and gagged by reverence. Tin-crowned and irrelevant. Stacey D'Erasmo bindcrowndark Change image and share on social
One of the things I've always loved about queer culture is the openness and passionate curiosity about love, desire and the myriad forms of affectionate ties. Stacey D'Erasmo affectionateculturecuriosity Change image and share on social
The much-lauded visual artist Roni Horn got her Master's in Sculpture from Yale in the Seventies, but in the course of her career she has moved, among other media, from watercolors to photographs to floor-sized installations and mats of poured gold. Stacey D'Erasmo artistcareerfloor share on social
Shelley Jackson's 'Half Life' is the textual equivalent of an installation, a multivocal, polymorphous, dialogic, dystopian satire wrapped around a murder mystery wrapped around a bildungsroman. Stacey D'Erasmo bildungsromandialogicdystopian Change image and share on social
The songs in 'Wonderland' don't have a melodic life for me - I'm not a musical person - but they have an emotional life, an emotional echo perhaps. Stacey D'Erasmo echoemotionallife Change image and share on social
Historians of European royalty have written of the king's 'two bodies' : one mortal and corrupt; the other divine, abstract and timeless. Stacey D'Erasmo abstractbodycorrupt Change image and share on social
'The Girls,' by Lori Lansens, is a ballad, a melancholy song of two very strange, enchanted girls who live out their peculiar, ordinary lives in a rural corner of Canada. Stacey D'Erasmo balladcanadacorner Change image and share on social