Steve Erickson
Steve Erickson is
the author of both fiction and nonfiction works, including two books on
American politics and popular culture that have been published in ten
languages. His work has appeared in such publications as Esquire, Rolling
Stone, and the New York Times magazine.
He is currently the film critic for Los Angeles magazine and the editor of the literary journal Black Clock,
which is published by the California Institute of the Arts, where he teaches.
He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the American Academy of Arts and Letters
award in literature.
All Books By Steve Erickson
Shadowbahn
- By: Steve Erickson
- Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 6 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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3.45(994 ratings)
When the Twin Towers suddenly reappear in the badlands of South Dakota twenty years after their fall, nobody can explain their return. To the hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands drawn to the “American Stonehenge”–including Parker and Zema, siblings on their way from Los Angeles to visit their mother in Michigan–the Towers seem to sing, even as everybody hears a different song. A rumor overtakes the throng that someone can be seen in the high windows of the southern structure.
On the ninety-third floor, Jesse Presley–the stillborn twin of the most famous singer who ever lived–suddenly awakes, driven mad over the hours and days to come by a voice in his head that sounds like his but isn’t, and by the memory of a country where he survived in his brother’s place. Meanwhile, Parker and Zema cross a possessed landscape by a mysterious detour no one knows, charted on a map that no one has seen.
Haunting, audacious, and undaunted, Shadowbahn is a winding and reckless ride through intersections of danger, destiny, and the conjoined halves of a ruptured nation.
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- By: Steve Erickson
- Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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4.09(2662 ratings)
On the same August day in 1969 that a crazed hippie “family” led by Charles Manson commits five savage murders in the canyons above Los Angeles, a young ex-communicated seminarian arrives with images of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift–“the two most beautiful people in the history of the movies”–tattooed on his head. At once childlike and violent, Vikar is not a cineaste but “cineautistic,” sleeping at night in the Roosevelt Hotel where he’s haunted by the ghost of D. W. Griffith. Vikar has stepped into the vortex of a culture in upheaval: strange drugs that frighten him, a strange sexuality that consumes him, a strange music he doesn’t understand. Over the course of the seventies and into the eighties, he pursues his obsession with film from one screening to the next and through a series of cinema-besotted conversations and encounters with starlets, burglars, guerrillas, escorts, teenage punks, and veteran film editors, only to discover a secret whose clues lie in every film ever made.
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