Steve Erickson (All press)
- Sep 12 2015
Variety: "Alchemy has acquired North American distribution rights to James Franco’s Hollywood-set dramedy “Zeroville” for a 2016 release." - Jun 19 2014
Vice: Zeroville makes James Franco's Summer Reading list - Jul 10 2012
The National: "Erickson's remarkable body of work is one of the finest in contemporary American letters." - Mar 29 2012
The Washington Post: "With his exuberant ninth novel Steve Erickson...presents a theory about why innovative forms best make sense of our nonsensical present." - Mar 26 2012
The New Yorker: "Erickson’s skillful use of metafictional techniques, coincidences, and resonances expands the story into an absorbing meditation on narrative itself." - Mar 23 2012
Los Angeles Times: "Steve Erickson writes incisively and movingly about issues of family and race." - Mar 9 2012
Austin Chronicle Reviews These Dreams of You - Feb 12 2012
Steve Erickson discusses THESE DREAMS OF YOU with Lit Reactor's Joshua Chaplinsky - Feb 12 2012
Michael Silverblatt Interviews Steve Erickson for KCRW - Feb 12 2012
The New York Times: "the novel as fractal, a series of endless, astounding tessellations." - Feb 12 2012
Boston Globe: "a truly electrifying read." - Jan 4 2012
Kirkus (starred review): "A complex and imaginative literary tapestry about family and identity." - Nov 28 2011
Publishers Weekly: "Erickson expertly weaves together themes of music, politics, and idealism in a modern story where preconceptions are outdated." - Dec 15 2007
Time Out Chicago: "it takes a savant like Vikar to unlock the mystical key at the center of Zeroville, an idea funny and dizzy enough that it counts as both spoiler and beyond easy description, so we’ll keep our mouths shut." - Dec 15 2007
Newsweek: "Zeroville makes Newsweek's top 5 novels of 2007 list2 - Dec 8 2007
Seattle Times: "A surprising page-turner, driven by a jumpy energy and short, cinematic chapters." - Dec 7 2007
Time Out New York: "It’s a strange plot, to be sure, but Erickson grounds it with a seamless timeline and cinematic allusions that will be candy to any film buff." - Dec 2 2007
The New York Times: "it’s simply impossible to explain the intent and direction of this funny, disturbing, daring and demanding novel-Erickson’s best. The set pieces in “Zeroville” are particularly breathtaking." - Nov 21 2007
Globe & Mail (Toronto): ""What makes this book exceptional is that Erickson is able to push an unconventional story with new ways to look at the world, while also delivering one that is satisfying and complete." - Nov 18 2007
Philadelphia Inquirer: "Steve Erickson's is a feral and entertaining ride with cultural references, quirky koans, and a few surreal pit stops." - Nov 16 2007
Washington Post: "Over his entire career Erickson has challenged readers with a fiercely intelligent and surprisingly sensual brand of American surrealism that can, at times, seem impenetrable." - Nov 16 2007
Bookforum: "Steve Erickson adapts nearly the oldest story in the book (Abraham and Isaac), threads it through the projector through which all film history spins, and...throws light and shadow onto the backs of our eyelids in this love letter to celluloid" - Nov 13 2007
Times Literary Supplement: "The attempt to tell two stories at once reveals two things about Erickson’s ambitious art: first, he is fascinated by simultaneity; second, he likes the form of his fiction to imitate its content." - Nov 12 2007
LA Times Book Review: "At root, "Zeroville" is a novel about the nitty-gritty mysteries of the artistic process and about the evolution of an enthusiast into an artist." - Nov 12 2007
Entertainment Weekly: "Zeroville inhabits a sweet spot where fiction and film criticism merge, wryly imagining a world in which house burglars parse John Ford Westerns." - Nov 12 2007
Mostly Fiction: Interview with Steve Erickson - Nov 12 2007
LA Times: "Erickson has established a reputation as a daring, lyrical writer with a strong following among other novelists and a distinctive brand of cultural taste: West Coast, genre-bending and earnestly experimental." - Nov 12 2007
Newsweek: "Steve Erickson's one-of-a-kind "Zeroville" is a novel for people who love movies." - Nov 2 2007
Fanzine: "He is the sort of novelist who keeps all the other novelists honest. And for these reasons, he remains much more interesting than the writers most people read."