Steve Erickson (was AtD roundtable)

[Jay Herzog]

I quite liked Amnesiascope, which read to me like a cross between
Henry Miller and J. G. Ballard. A lot of his work is informed by his
perception of cultural amnesia in L.A.--he's spoken in interviews
about how his childhood neighborhood was obliterated by a freeway.

Arc d'X, with its references to Jefferson and Sally Hemings, is
probably his most P-like (minus the humor though).

J.

On 1/3/07, Chris Broderick <elsuperfantastico at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I actually thought his later works were better,
> particularly Arc D'X and The Sea Came in at Midnight.
> Haven't read Tours of the Black Clock or either of his
> non-fictional books (Leap Year and American Nomad) or
> any of his film criticism, but I've read the rest of
> his novels.  I was less impressed with his last, Our
> Ecstatic Days, though I was glad that he took himself
> to task for his continued obsession with strippers.
> Anyway, bilocation is certainly a prevalent theme, and
> one can easily see why Pynchon likes his work...
>
> -Chris

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