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Nombre legal: Erickson, Stephen Michael
Fecha de nacimiento: 1950-04-20
Género: male
Nacionalidad: USA
Lugar de nacimiento: Los Angeles, California, USA
Lugares de residencia: Los Angeles, California, USA (birthplace)
Topanga Canyon, California, USA
Educación: University of California, Los Angeles (BA|Film|1972)
University of California, Los Angeles (MA|Journalism|1973)
Ocupaciones: film critic
professor
novelist
essayist
Premios y honores: Guggenheim Fellowship (2007)
Grantee, National Endowment for the Arts (1987)

Miembros

Debates

Days Between Stations en The Clocks Have All Stopped (noviembre 2016)

Why The Clocks Have All Stopped en The Clocks Have All Stopped (junio 2014)

Rubicon Beach en The Clocks Have All Stopped (abril 2012)

These Dreams of You en The Clocks Have All Stopped (marzo 2012)

Writers on Steve Erickson en The Clocks Have All Stopped (marzo 2012)

meat and meaning en The Clocks Have All Stopped (marzo 2012)

Reseñas

Zeroville por Steve Erickson

A hearty digestible meal of a trippy as hell read. A dark, comforting, humane waltz across 20th century film history. This book was written for me.

It says something that one of the blurbs on this book is FROM Pynchon, rather than a comparison to his work. This is the real thing. Hilariously, there's also a terrible film adaptation of Zeroville starring James Franco which destroys the impeccable tone in the novel. Luckily it BOMBED.

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Amateria66 | 17 reseñas más. | May 24, 2024 |

Zeroville por Steve Erickson

Zeroville is an almost dreamlike meander through Hollywood... the neighbourhood, the business, the history, and the fantasy. Vikar, a sometimes violent, always film-obsessed, perhaps autistic young man with tattoos of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift emblazoned on his shaved head is our guide.

We follow his journey beginning on the day that he arrives in LA in 1969 amid the background of hippies and surfers and the Manson murders through his becoming part of the studio system over the next decade and a half and watching him and his contemporaries navigate the turbulent years of Hollywood studios when everything was changing quickly.

This book is a veritable feast for any serious cinephile. It is overflowing with film references, Hollywood history, and thinly veiled characters. I absolutely love the movies but I don't consider myself anywhere near an expert and I enjoyed all the references and had fun figuring out who was who and what was what. I imagine that my many film savant friends would be in heaven with that part of it.

While the novel follows a standard timeline through the years, Erickson manages to make the sum of the parts feel diaphanous and perpetual much like the philosophy of Vikar in that "all the scenes of a movie are really happening at the same time. No scene really leads to the next, all scenes lead to each other. . . . 'Continuity' is one of the myths of film."

It wasn't my favourite Erickson novel but it still had that 'bit darker, bit deeper' quality which I can count on him for.… (más)

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Jess.Stetson | 17 reseñas más. | Apr 4, 2023 |

Tours of the Black Clock: A Novel por Steve Erickson

Stunning. Having just re-read this a decade on from the first time, I was blown away once again by the visceral reactions that I had to Erickson's prose. His writing is beautiful and sublime and thought-provoking in the very same moments that he is describing horrors and tragedies.

The novel is an intricate and tremendously woven story for which I think the reader must be prepared to be open to. The storytelling is beautiful and there are full pages which I could read over and over for their elegance. There's no reason not to enjoy this novel on its surface... But try to walk into this novel without expectations and allow it to wash over you.… (más)

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Jess.Stetson | 3 reseñas más. | Apr 4, 2023 |