· I’ve just finished Steve Erickson’s eighth novel the astonishing Zeroville, and quite simply, it’s the best new fiction novel I’ve read this www.doorway.rulle is a brilliant, scathing, surreal puzzle, a satirical off-kilter look at the Hollywood film industry through the eyes of cinema-savant, ex-seminarian Vikar Jerome. I predict that Erickson, a film critic for Los Angeles Magazine, has. While the movies have appeared in a number of Steve Erickson's novels, from Days Between Stations to The Sea Came in at Midnight, they dominate Zeroville with the force of revelation. Over the decade of the seventies and into the eighties, as the old studios crumble before the onslaught of a new renegade generation, Vikar becomes an unlikely 4/5(11). www.doorway.ru: Zeroville () by Erickson, Steve and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices.
Steve Erickson is a legend. Thanks to Eric, and the nice people at Europa Editions, I recently started reading Zeroville. The book is being turned into a film directed by James Franco starring Franco, Seth Rogen, Jacki Weaver, Megan Fox, Will Ferrell, and Danny McBride. So, there's that. Check out a snippet from the bo. Steve Erickson Steve Erickson is the author of several novels, including Tours of the Black Clock, Rubicon Beach, The Sea Came in at Midnight, Our Ecstatic Days, and Arc d'www.doorway.ru books have been translated into a dozen languages. He is the film critic for Los Angeles magazine and editor of the literary journal Black Clock, which is published by CalArts where he teaches writing. James Franco's "Zeroville" has been in distribution limbo after its production and allegations levied against its www.doorway.rugh pinning down the exact reason that the people involved in this adaptation of Steve Erickson's hit novel wouldn't want the movie released could be a little difficult.
Zeroville suffers from the pointlessness of surrealism, whereby things just happen." - Daniel Swift, Financial Times "In Zeroville, Erickson breathes life into structure. () Parts are uncomfortable; Vikar is prone to unprovoked violence. Steve Erickson is a first-rate film critic and an ambitious novelist. Zeroville is his unqualified masterpiece. It is both a reworking of the Isaac and Abraham story from the Old Testament--and a great L. A. novel as seen through the lens of the film industry (and a vexing film editor/ex-divinity student) from to Zeroville is a novel by Steve Erickson on film's upheaval in the s. It has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and other languages. It was named one of the best novels of the year by Newsweek, the Washington Post BookWorld and the Los Angeles Times Book Review among others, and in winter was one of the five favorite novels of novelists and critics in a poll of the National Book Critics Circle. The novel was also shortlisted for the Believer Book Award.
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