review of Steve Erickson's ZEROVILLE / The Famished Road

My review of Steve Erickson's new novel ZEROVILLE is in the new update of Bookslut. I really enjoyed this book. I read it straight through. It is relatively short and made up of short sections so you could have a good place to stop reading on almost any page if you had to though I did not. Steve Erickson is an excellent writer and this may be his best. He is also an underrated writer who was even more underrated several years ago. He still has more coming to him. You should really buy and read this book. If you like it you should read AMNESIASCOPE and ARC d'X and then read others.



Right now I am reading THE FAMISHED ROAD by Ben Okri, after Derek White's praise of it. It is incredible. It is magical realism with simple sentences and perfect rhythms. So far I am very jealous of it. I am 100 pages in of 500 and I think it is already in my top 5 favorite books.



My sleep right now is so fucked. I haven't slept more than 2-3 hours a night in almost 2 weeks. I am beginning to feel squashed.

August Lamination Colony

new update for LAMINATION COLONY is now live, featuring art by IRA JOEL HABER and a short text by JOEL JAMES DAVIS. more joels for your buck.

if you have a short piece you'd like to submit, we're always looking. send to laminationcolony [at] gmail [dot] com

the guidelines on the site are really old.

we basically just like weird surrealist retarded fucked shit.

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right now i am rereading RUBICON BEACH by Steve Erickson. it'd been a few years but reading ZEROVILLE made me go back.

god damn that guy is good.