Steve Erickson
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Born | Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
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Stephen Michael Erickson is an American novelist. The author of influential works such as
Biography
Steve Erickson was born and raised in
A "writer's writer," Erickson is regarded as one of America's best living novelists,
In 2021, the University Press of Mississippi issued Conversations With Steve Erickson as part of a series that includes William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, James Baldwin, William S. Burroughs and Toni Morrison, proclaiming Erickson "a subterranean literary figure...[whose] dream-fueled blend of European modernism, American pulp and paranoid late-century postmodernism makes him essential to an appreciation of the last 40 years of American fiction."[6]
Bibliography
Novels
- Days Between Stations (1985)
- Rubicon Beach (1986)
- Tours of the Black Clock (1989)
- Arc d'X (1993)
- Amnesiascope (1996)
- The Sea Came in at Midnight (1999)
- Our Ecstatic Days (2005)
- Zeroville (2007)
- These Dreams of You (2012)
- Shadowbahn (2017)
Other
- Leap Year (1989)
- American Nomad (1997)
- American Stutter (2022)
Honors and awards
- National Endowment for the Arts (1987);
- Notable Book of the Year, New York Times Book Review(1987): Rubicon Beach;
- Notable Book of the Year, New York Times Book Review (1989): Tours of the Black Clock;
- Best Books of the Year, Village Voice(1989): Tours of the Black Clock;
- Notable Book of the Year, New York Times Book Review (1993): Arc d'X;
- Best Fiction of the Year, Entertainment Weekly (1993): Arc d'X;
- Best Novel nominee, British Fantasy Society (1997): Amnesiascope;
- Notable Book of the Year, New York Times Book Review (1999): The Sea Came in at Midnight;
- Best Books of the Year, Uncut (1999): The Sea Came in at Midnight;
- Best Novel nominee, British Fantasy Society (1999): The Sea Came in at Midnight;
- 2001 MacDowell Fellow;
- 2002 MacDowell Fellow;
- Best Books of the Year, Los Angeles Times Book Review (2005): Our Ecstatic Days;
- Best Books of the Year, Uncut (2005): Our Ecstatic Days;
- John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2007);
- Best Books of the Year, Newsweek (2007): Zeroville;
- Best Books of the Year, Washington Post BookWorld (2007): Zeroville;
- Best Books of the Year, Los Angeles Times Book Review (2007): Zeroville;
- American Academy of Arts and Letters, Award in Literature (2010);
- Best Books of the Year, Los Angeles Times (2012): These Dreams of You;
- Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award (2014);
- Best Books of the Year, Los Angeles Times (2017): Shadowbahn;
- Best Books of the Year, Bookworm, KCRW (2017): Shadowbahn
References
- New York Review of Books "2014 Lannan Literary Awards and Fellowships"Winter, 2015. Retrieved July 3, 2017.
- ^ Silverblatt, Michael. "Arts and Culture: Best Books of 2017" Bookworm, KCRW Fall, 2017. Retrieved December 16, 2017.
- ^ Moody, Rick. "Steve Erickson Interview" The Rumpus Winter, 2017. Retrieved July 3, 2017.
- ^ National Book Critics Circle. "NBCC's good reads" Critical Mass Winter, 2008. Retrieved July 3, 2017.
- ^ Lethem, Jonathan. "Best Book of 2017" Granta Winter, 2015. Retrieved July 3, 2017.
- ^ University Press of Mississippi. "Conversations with Steve Erickson". Retrieved November 25, 2022.
- ^ D'Alessandro, Anthony (April 1, 2019). "James Franco's Delayed 'Zeroville' Saved By myCinema; Distrib's Slate Includes Julian Fellowes' 'The Chaperone' – CinemaCon". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
- ^ University of California, Riverside. "Writing faculty" Retrieved July 3, 2017.
External links
- Official Site
- LA Weekly profile by Michael Ventura (1986)
- MostlyFiction interview (2007)
- New York Times review of Zeroville
- LitReactor Interview (2012)
- National Public Radio review of These Dreams of You
- Los Angeles Review of Books review of These Dreams of You
- New York Times review of Shadowbahn
- The Rumpus review of Shadowbahn
- The Rumpus interview by Rick Moody (2017)
- Here's the Thing interview by Alec Baldwin (2017)
- BBC4 adaptation of Shadowbahn (2018)
- The Believer interview with Steve Erickson (2019)