Editing Michael Gira (section)

===Writings===
Gira's first short story collection ''The Consumer'' ({{ISBN|1-880985-26-8}}) was published in 1995 by [[Henry Rollins]]'s [[2.13.61]] publications. It is divided into two parts, the first being "The Consumer", a series of short stories from the early 1990s, the second, "Various Traps, Some Weaknesses", made up mostly of prose-poems and vignettes, all dating from 1983 to 1986. (Many of these earlier stories had previously been published by [[SST Records]] as ''Selfishness'', with illustrations by [[Raymond Pettibon]].) In a ''[[Spike Magazine]]'' review of ''The Consumer And Other Stories'', Jordon Leigh Bortle writes, "the squeamish may wish to armour themselves before entering these pages [...] Here, all taboos are annihilated — incest, alcoholism, obscene torture, rape, cannibalism, and perverse murder have all but become the norm in which these tragic tales occur."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bortle |first1=Jordon Leigh |title=Michael Gira: The Consumer And Other Stories |url=https://www.spikemagazine.com/0401michaelgira/ |access-date=11 July 2023 |work=[[Spike Magazine]] |date=April 1, 2001}}</ref>

In February 2018, Gira released his second short story collection, ''The Egg''. Limited to 2,500 hand-signed copies, ''The Egg'' compiles seventeen stories written over 2016. Included with the release is a disc containing narrations of a handful of stories from ''The Egg'' as well as a few from ''The Consumer''.<ref name="egg1">{{cite web|last1=Gira|first1=Michael|title=The Egg: Stories by Michael Gira|url=https://younggodrecords.com/products/michael-gira-the-egg|website=younggodrecords.com|publisher=[[Young God Records]]|access-date=February 5, 2018|archive-date=February 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180206131426/https://younggodrecords.com/products/michael-gira-the-egg|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2022, Gira released a collection of Swans lyrics, stories, and journals titled ''The Knot'', in a collector's edition of 3,000 hand-numbered copies. ''The Knot'' is 408 pages long, and additionally contains 101 color images. ''The Knot'' contains all of the lyrics from the first [[Swans (EP)|''Swans'' EP]] to ''[[Leaving Meaning]]'', as well as lyrics from [[Angels of Light]] and [[World of Skin]], among Gira's other projects, and includes archived writings dating back to 1974.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Michael Gira • The Knot: Complete Words for Music, Collected Stories and Journals |url=https://younggodrecords.com/products/the-knot |access-date=2022-05-28 |website=[[Young God Records]]}}</ref>