Suck Again--Thomas Pynchon Not Insane!

[Chris Sweet]

Dan Schmidt wrote:

>  William Karlin <karlin at barus.physics.brown.edu> writes:
>
> |  I forgot to mention this yesterday, but one of the links in this piece
> | goes to an L.A. Weekly article from 1986 about Steve Erickson's _rubicon
> | beach_ (which I hadn't heard of -- any good?  It sounds interesting.)
>
> It's one of the best books I've read.
>
> I highly recommend all Steve Erickson books to Pynchon fans, except
> the latest novel Amnesiascope, which unfortunately is probably the
> easiest to find, having just come out in paperback.
>

I agree...Amnesiascope was a big letdown. The good thing about it comingout in
paperback though is that Henry Holt has also reprinted Days Between
Stations and Rubicon Beach. My favorite of his is Tours of The Black Clock.
He's also written Arc d'X (which has another Pynchon quote: "Mind-warping
in its vision, absolute in its integrity, Arc d'X is classic Erickson - as
daring,
crazy, and passionate as any American writing since the Declaration of
Independence."

He also has two books of non-fiction, Leap Year and American Nomad
(which is currently in hardcover). There's an interview somewhere where
he talks about meeting Pynchon.

Oh yeah, I think his agent is Melanie Jackson.

-chris


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