Books
June, 1996
Steve Erickson is an impressive literary talent in search of the right form for his complex vision. Each of his previous four novels—Days Between Stations, Rubicon Beach, Tours of the Black Clock and Arc d'X—embraces a different mode of storytelling. In his latest, Amnesiascope (Henry Holt), he offers a rambling, Henry Milleresque confessional that is daring if not perfect.A futuristic Los Angeles is devastated by the Quake. Erickson's first-person narrator is the movie critic for a newspaper pu...
