[Photo: Under the Cypress – cover]
By Rowan Wolf
Gaither Stewart has expanded his Italy duology to a trilogy by releasing his new book Under the Cypress: A Story of Fear and Transcendence. The first two books were San Marino Blues and The Hamlet.
By Dom Cochran
Gaither Stewart’s newest novel “The Hamlet: A Tale of Life, Dreams, and Epiphanies“. Now available worldwide through Amazon.
In Gaither Stewart’s novel “The Hamlet” a group of seven persons feels compelled to challenge the covert, self-preserving wrath of a rogue institution and other agencies controlling a fortified facility and underground lab in the hamlet of San Nicola on Rome’s outskirts.
By Petar Penda
Preface to Gaither Stewart’s newest novel “The Hamlet: A Tale of Life, Dreams, and Epiphanies“. Now available worldwide through Amazon.
In his seminal book of socio-political essays entitled Babylon Falling (Punto Press, 2017), Gaither Stewart, to a certain extent, explains his poetics. In two of his notable essays, “Compromise and Commitment” and in “Transformation” that opens the book, he sees the creative individual’s chief goals to be to change and transform the world, to be committed, and to “reject social conformity and political correctness”. He further explicates the necessity of writers’ engagement by stating that “moral conflicts of the day have a political background and that nearly every aspect of our lives is related to politics. An understanding of politics is fundamental in order to understand what the writer must oppose and what he can defend.” Not only has Stewart such a viewpoint in his essays, but also shows it in his novels through the themes he deals with and by the action of his characters. This emphasizes his point of view that the private life of an individual is inseparable from the political, which is hugely visible in his novel The Hamlet.
By Rowan Wolf
Gaither Stewart has released a new novel that I recommend most highly. “The Hamlet: A Tale of Life, Dreams, and Epiphanies” is a complex work that in my opinion stretches the boundaries of his other works. It has the suspense of a political mystery with the ethereal nature of walking the Dream World. Stewart looks deeply within (epiphanies) while keeping his critical eye on current events making the novel both timeless and timely.
[Photo: Cotton field at sunset. John Thomas, 2010.]
Gaither Stewart