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Conversations with Steve Erickson (Literary Conversations Series) by Matthew Luter (editor) &, Mike Miley (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Much like his novels, Steve Erickson (b. 1950) exists on the periphery of our perception, a shadow figure lurking on the margins, threatening to break through, but never fully emerging. Despite receiving prestigious honors, Erickson has remained a subterranean literary figure, receiving effusive praise from his fans, befuddled or cautious assessments from reviewers, and scant scholarly attention. Erickson's obscurity comes in part from the difficulty of categorizing his work within current trends in fiction, and in part from the wide variety of concerns that populate his writing: literature, music, film, politics, history, time, and his fascination with his home city of Los Angeles. His dream-fueled blend of European modernism, American pulp, and paranoid late-century postmodernism makes him essential to an appreciation of the last forty years of American fiction but difficult to classify neatly within that same realm. He is at once thoroughly of his time and distinctly outside it. In these twenty-four interviews Erickson clarifies how his aesthetic and political visions are inextricable from each other. He diagnoses the American condition since World War II, only to reveal that Am
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- Author
- Matthew Luter (editor) &, Mike Miley (editor)
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781496833907
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
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