Steve Erickson
Steve Erickson
Stephen Michael Erickson, pen name Steve Erickson, is an American novelist, essayist and critic. He is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, and is considered an important representative of the Avantpop movement...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth20 April 1950
CountryUnited States of America
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The Doors formed on the beaches of Los Angeles, in what you might imagine is the tradition of local rock bands since the Beach Boys.
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The first books I remember having an impact on me when I was a kid were L. Frank Baum's 'Oz' books, which were much stranger than the movie: at once rather whimsical and really dark.
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'The Company You Keep' is about outgrowing not just the delusions that accompany youth but the harsh certainties driving our lives and then trapping them before the years outpace the velocity of our dreams.
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Alejandro Jodorowsky is one of the supreme nut jobs in movie history, and of course I mean that in the nicest way.
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Among the mysteries of the creative ego is how the transcendence of what artists do is their own response to the darkness of who they are, and the same personal darkness that is at odds with the art is what propels artists to the light of what they create.
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Among the gorges and ravines that hang on Los Angeles's shoulders like a necklace, Topanga - nestled in the cleavage of the Santa Monica Mountains - is the most singular of ornaments.
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A modern fascination with the fantastic seems to come along every couple of generations, usually at a point when we're future saturated.
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I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov.
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Though energy and inspiration diminish, experience grows - the theme of parents and kids, for instance.
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The material dictates the approach. I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them. Certainly the last thing I want is to be "difficult."
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To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.
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I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa.
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In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.
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I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read.