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"Most fiction is a sort of collaboration between experience and imagination," explains Steve Erickson, the acclaimed author of several novels, including Tours of the Black Clock, The Sea Came in at Midnight, and Zeroville. Regarded as a central figure in the avant-pop movement, Erickson has been compared to J. G. Ballard and Don DeLillo, and praised by Thomas Pynchon for his deeply imaginative fiction. Watch this new video interview with Erickson, and learn how his "stories inside stories" come to be—and why he, as a writer, doesn't find perfection "especially interesting."
Learn more: openroadmedia.com/steve-erickson
"Most fiction is a sort of collaboration between experience and imagination," explains Steve Erickson, the acclaimed author of several novels, including Tours of the Black Clock, The Sea Came in at Midnight, and Zeroville. Regarded as a central figure in the avant-pop movement, Erickson has been compared to J. G. Ballard and Don DeLillo, and praised by Thomas Pynchon for his deeply imaginative fiction. Watch this new video interview with Erickson, and learn how his "stories inside stories" come to be—and why he, as a writer, doesn't find perfection "especially interesting."
Learn more: openroadmedia.com/steve-erickson
