Book Merah has been creating interesting books and projects since 2007. Topics include art, the President of the United States, Singapore, Japanese rice seasonings, virtual reality and more...

1. Book Merah
Eight books for the adventurous.

2. Book Merah
Started in 2007, Book Merah is an “umbrella” for the art and
text projects of Stephen Black and other artists and writers.
Book Merah engages in social media, but does no
marketing.
Book Merah likes to talk with writers and artists. If you have
a proofread book project or an idea for an artist’s book, feel
free to get in touch.

3. Bus Stopping
“With its stunning visuals of a humanized society, Bus
Stopping debunks the notion of the island nation being
“just” a commercial city.
Deepak Gurnani, film producer
“...a spontaneous, studied and ever eloquent eye.”
Xu Xi, author,Man Asia Literary Prize nominee
available here

4. Obama Search Words
Obama Search Words combines original research in
Jakarta, Chicago, New York and Japan with fact-based
fiction and screenplays. This video was created for the
OSW Unglue campaign.
Extracts can be found here.

5. Furikake
Nine short stories, all somehow related to the Japanese
rice seasonings called furikake. The location for most of
these stories is Singapore.
Click here for extracts and a five-star Amazon review.
(... and yes,the rumors are true: Furikake has the ugliest
cover on Amazon.)

6. Contact With Shadow
Full of grief, Singaporean history, printing press lore and
sweet memories of love, to read Contact With Shadow is to
experience loss– and redemption.
Contact With Shadow is now in a campaign to become
Unglued. Watch the video and learn more here.
“It’s a double pleasure to read this… First, there’s the joy of gleaning nuggets of knowledge about
Singapore and the printed word hitherto unknown; and second, there’s the childlike wonder of never
knowing what Stephen Black has in store for us on the next page.”
Ng Yi-Sheng, 200 Singapore Literature Prize

7. Fires
Exclusively on ebook, Fires is a collection of
poems by Cyril Wong.
"his work expands beyond simple sexuality… to embrace themes of love,
alienation and human relationships of all kinds."
Time magazine
Fires

8. I Ate Tiong Bahru
“… your exquisite ‘lyrical documentary’ on Tiong Bahru gave me many hours of
pure pleasure… I wish I’d read it before visiting the estate, and still in
Singapore so I would be able to go there again. It’s in Paris that I read it, and
followed all your descriptions and encounters, street by street, on my detailed
map of Singapore… I loved your book.”
-M.Abreu
More reviews, as well as info on how to get a free ebook, version here.

9. Bali Wave Ghost
Set in the near future, Bali Wave Ghost is a novel written in
diary form. An American writer in Bali encounters ghosts of
many kinds as his lover struggles with a serious illness.
Bali Wave Ghost will be published in December, 2014. More information,
including an excerpt about surfing a 200 foot wave, here.

10. To Eat Tiong Bahru
The sequel to I Ate Tiong Bahru, this book may be soon
involved in a presale/crowdfunding project.
An excerpt is here.
Visit www.blacksteps.tv for more information

11. SPOKEN
SPOKEN is an exciting phenomenon; an intersection of art,
creative writing and virtual reality.
Stop by gallery.sg anytime before February 14, 2015.
Guided tours happily arranged.
More SPOKEN information here.