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īBC Radio 4 broadcast an adaptation of Shadowbahn as part of its Dangerous Visions series in June 2018. In the December 2015 issue of Granta, Lethem declared the then unpublished Shadowbahn the best American novel of whatever year in which it was ultimately released. Greil Marcus has called Erickson "the only authentic American surrealist," and Rick Moody has included Erickson "in the league of Pynchon, DeLillo, Atwood, Rushdie, Okri, Pamuk, Ondaatje, Lethem-a maximal visionary." Erickson's Tours of the Black Clock appears on critic Larry McCaffery's list of the 20th Century’s Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction, and in a winter 2008 poll by the National Book Critics Circle of 800 novelists and writers, Zeroville was named one of the five favorite novels of the previous year. His work has been cited by Thomas Pynchon, Haruki Murakami, David Foster Wallace, Dana Spiotta, Neil Gaiman, Richard Powers, Kathy Acker, Jonathan Lethem, William Gibson and Mark Z. Ĭonsidered a "writer's writer," Erickson frequently is mentioned as one of America's best living novelists even as some readers in his country remain unfamiliar with him.
He is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Riverside. For fourteen years he was founding editor of the literary journal Black Clock until it ceased publication in 2016.
Erickson appears briefly as a fictional character in Michael Ventura's 1996 novel The Death of Frank Sinatra.Įrickson has written for the New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Smithsonian, Rolling Stone, Conjunctions, American Prospect and Los Angeles magazine among others, and twice has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award. Along with three non-fiction books, Leap Year, American Nomad and American Stutter, Erickson has published a total of ten novels in more than a dozen languages. His first novel, Days Between Stations, was published in 1985. For a few years he worked as a freelance writer for alternative weekly newspapers. This motif occasionally has recurred in novels such as Amnesiascope.Įrickson studied film at UCLA ( BA, 1972), then journalism ( M.A. Erickson had a pronounced stutter as a child, when teachers believed he couldn't read. His father, who died in 1990, was a photographer. For many years his mother, a former actress, ran a small theatre in L.A. Steve Erickson was born and raised in Los Angeles.
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