Anything That Moves

'Jamie Stewart smears himself across every page like a sexorcism on bad acid. Deviant. Down and dirty. Get your freak on. Then wash your hands.' Lydia Lunch ---- 'On its surface, Anything That Moves would appear to be a book about Jamie Stewart's sexual history, but I found - as is the case in Jamie's work with Xiu Xiu - that it is more of a delineation of the most hidden and forbidden parts of our subconscious, and the complicated and insane ways we relate to ourselves and each other.' Owen Pallett ---- 'An ecstatic ritual purging of all the weird sex, abject humiliation, visceral, bone-deep sadness, and sheer laughing-in-the-face-of-it-all that a human life can accumulate in the course of a few decades spent on this earth. For Stewart to have rendered so compellingly on the page an exercise as profoundly uncomfortable as this one is a remarkable feat, and I was absolutely here for it. One for the freaks.' Ollie Simpson, Pages of Hackney ---- 'I remember when I first heard Xiu Xiu over 15 years ago and from page one, reading Jamie Stewart's Anything That Moves brought me right back to that feeling. This book is honest, very funny and like all of Stewart's work, it holds both a tender vulnerability while also deeply, truly not giving a fuck what you think. Perfect.' Liz Freeman, East Bay Booksellers ---- 'An eternally underrated facet of Jamie Stewart's oeuvre is his instinct for the nauseously hilarious, delivered with shocking candour, which comes through clearer than ever in Anything That Moves. It should be read while on the make, drinking continuously and irresponsibly.' Michael Abraham, Book Culture ---- 'Fans of lauded experimental band Xiu Xiu know exactly what they're in for with Jamie Stewart's memoir, but for the uninitiated - this book is an outrageous force of lunatic bravery. An onslaught of confessions about desire in all of its messy forms, it jumps effortlessly from caustic to tender, gross to hypnotic, straightforward to subversive. Like so much of Stewart's work, Anything That Moves dares you to blink first, but will reward you if you don't.' Josie Smith-Webster, Greenlight Bookstore ---- 'A scintillating & sultry selection of shorts that left me in a wonderful limbo between shock and awe.' David Kelly, Blackwell's, Oxford