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“Truly electrifying. In its gorgeous, vivid prose and its acutely sensitive soul, These Dreams of You shows us just what a novel can still do in our own crazy times.”
The Boston Globe
“Beautiful, elegiac…threads and characters serendipitously stumble through a missing-link chain of coincidences, with mazes and labyrinths both real and imagined…a complex and imaginative literary tapestry about family and identity.”
Kirkus (starred review)
“Actions echo across time, continents and realities…a series of endless, astounding tessellations….”
The New York Times Book Review
“Erickson is superb at striking emotional notes, conjuring up historical figures, and ruminating on race and identity....These Dreams of You pushes against the idea of the novel as a stagnated medium by flexing its own vitality.”
Bookforum
“Magnificent. These Dreams of You is a big novel of big ideas — emotionally capacious and desperately relevant. As readers rush headlong toward its climax, they may feel as if they have emerged from something like a fever dream, as torrents of ideas and images wash over them (read in as few sittings as possible for maximum effect).”
New York Journal of Books
Appearances:
Thursday, February 16, 7 p.m.: Los Angeles Downtown Central Library, ALOUD with Percival Everett (www.lfla.org/event-detail/
Wednesday, February 22, 7:30 p.m.: Skylight Books, Los Angeles (www.skylightbooks.com/event/
Monday, February 27, 7 p.m.: Elliott Bay, Seattle (www.elliottbaybook.com/node/
Tuesday, February 28, 7 p.m.: Tosca Café, San Francisco (www.litquake.org/calendar-of-
Tuesday, March 27, 7 p.m.: BookCourt, Brooklyn
Black Clock is accepting unsolicited fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction from September 19th, 2011 until October 10th, 2011. If you have a manuscript you would like to submit for consideration, please consult the Black Clock website for additional details.
Variety‘s Jeff Sneider reports:
James Franco has optioned feature film rights to Steve Erickson’s 2007 novel Zeroville and will develop the project under his Rabbit Bandini Prods. banner with an eye to direct the pic.
Franco will produce with Miles Levy and Vince Jolivette, though there are currently no plans for the thesp to star. The trio are eyeing an early 2012 start date.
The darkly comic story follows Ike “Vikar” Jerome, a 24-year-old student who arrives in Hollywood in 1969 with dreams of breaking into the movie business, which is in the midst of a seismic shift as the decline of studios gives way to the rise of independent directors. Jerome, who has tattoos of “A Place in the Sun” stars Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor on his head, becomes a successful film editor and embarks on a Hollywood journey that ends in both tragedy and discovery.
Characters in the book include Robert De Niro, Brian De Palma, Ryan O’Neal, John Milius, Margot Kidder, Ali McGraw, Paul Schrader and the ghost of Clift.
Zeroville was named one of the best novels of 2007 by Newsweek, the Washington Post BookWorld and the Los Angeles Times Book Review, among others.
Franco is set to play the title role in Disney’s Oz: The Great and Powerful, which starts filming this summer. He next stars in David Gordon Green’s comedy Your Highness, which Universal releases April 8, and also toplines 20th Century Fox’s Rise of the Apes.
Erickson’s next novel, These Dreams of You, will be published by Europa in February.
Franco is repped by CAA and James/Levy Management.
Contact Jeff Sneider at [email protected]
Black Clock is accepting unsolicited fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction from January 3rd, 2011 until January 17th, 2011. If you have a manuscript you would like to submit for consideration, please consult the Black Clock website for additional details.
Congratulations are in order for Black Clock contributor and CalArts Writing MFA (2005) Grace Krilanovich, who yesterday was recognized by the National Book Foundation. Named one of 5 young writers of distinction and “to watch”, Grace’s novel The Orange Eats Creeps (Two Dollar Radio), twice excerpted in the pages of Black Clock, was selected for inclusion in the “5 Under 35″ list by National Book Award-winning author Scott Spencer.
An event celebrating this year’s honorees will be held at powerHouse Arena in DUMBO, Brooklyn at the start of National Book Awards Week, Monday, November 15. Musician and author Rosanne Cash will host, author Amanda Stern will interview the honorees, winners and finalists, and music journalist Rob Sheffield will DJ.
In the meantime, litblog HTMLGIANT will be hosting a live web interview / reading with Grace at on Monday, October 11, at 9 PM EST / 8 PM CST / 6PM PST.
Black Clock editor Steve Erickson is one of seven writers to receive an Academy Award in Literature from The American Academy Of Arts And Letters. Additionally, Steve has been named a finalist for an American Society Of Magazine Editors National Magazine Award in Criticism.
In 1941 The American Academy Of Arts And Letters established awards to encourage creative work in the American arts. Now $7500 each, Academy Awards are given annually to artists, writers, composers, and architects. The Awards in Literature are given in recognition of “exceptional accomplishment in any genre.” Past recipients of this honor include David Mamet, William S. Burroughs, David Markson, Rikki Ducornet, Lorrie Moore, and Black Clock contributors William T. Vollmann and Don DeLillo.
The awards will be presented in New York in May at the Academy’s annual Ceremonial. The Academy’s 250 members nominate candidates, and a rotating committee of writers selects winners. This year’s committee members were Philip Levine, Romulus Linney, Rosanna Warren, and Joy Williams.
Co-sponsored by the American Society Of Magazine Editors and the Columbia University Graduate School In Journalism, the National Magazine Award is generally recognized to be the highest (or Pulitzer-like) honor accorded to writers in the magazine industry. Steve has been nominated for three reviews which originally appeared in the Los Angeles Magazine:
“The Next Frontier” [essay on the revived science fiction television serial Battlestar Galactica] (January 2009)
“War Games” [essay on Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker and Armando Iannucci’s In The Loop] (July 2009)
“No Ordinary Fad” [essay on the enduring popularity of The Beatles in the digital age] (September 2009)
Past recipients of the Award in Criticism include James Wood, Adam Gopnik, James Wolcott, Anthony Lane, and Black Clock contributor Tom Carson. Winners of the “Ellie” (named for the the Alexander Calder stabile “Elephant” awarded each winner) will be feted at a gala to be held at Alice Tully Hall in New York on April 22nd.
For a complete listing of this year’s nominee’s, please visit the Magazine Publishers Of America‘s website.
Congratulations Steve.
Black Clock will be joining Electric Literature in publishing a major new work of fiction by Rick Moody via Twitter.
The microserialization of Moody’s story will take place on every co-publisher’s Twitter feed from Monday, November 30th through Wednesday, December 2nd. Tweets will appear every ten minutes from 10 AM until 6:30 PM.
The first story written expressly for Twitter by a major literary author, Rick Moody’s “Some Contemporary Characters” will be tweeted over the course of three days on Black Clock‘s Twitter channel, @BlackClockmag, beginning Monday, November 30th at 10 AM. Utilizing social media, followers of the story will re-tweet it in real-time, creating a community-based event that promises to break down the conventional barriers separating readers and publishers.
Moody’s story is broken into 153 bursts of 140 characters or less, each clearly labored over with a precision and lyricism that reveals the surprising literary potential of the tweet. “It really was like writing Haiku,” says Moody, who went head-to-head with the character limitation of Twitter and used it as a source of inspiration. “Moody has taken something that could be seen as gimmicky– ‘Twitter-fiction’–and created something transcendent,” says Electric Literature‘s Editor, Scott Lindenbaum.
Electric Literature has extended the invitation to co-publish the piece throughout the literary community, framing the event as “A Grassroots Exercise in Participatory ePublishing.” We are very excited to partner with Electric Literature–themselves publishers of authors (such as Diana Wagman) who have appeared in the pages of Black Clock 10 in this venture.
If you, your publication, or your organization would like to be part of this project, please email editors_at_electricliterature.com.
For more information, please consult this press release.
Black Clock is accepting unsolicited fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction from September 18th, 2009 until October 31st, 2009. If you have a manuscript you would like to submit for consideration, please consult the Black Clock website for details.
With both the occasion of our fifth anniversary and the publication of our tenth issue imminent, Black Clock has asked some of its most frequent (and prominent) contributors to describe their experience as readers of the magazine. The responses we collected are as singular, idiosyncratic and even a little mysterious as the contents of any given issue.
“Black Clock measures the temper of the turning world, ” a journal of ideas, provocations and cultural leaps, with some of the best writing anywhere.” – Don DeLillo
“There’s never before been a literary journal with exactly the power and elegance, even the force of enigma, of Black Clock. Each issue arrives in the reader’s hands as an artifact throbbing with potential and strangeness, new names and old names in wild conjunctions and brave forays, a journal to drive the collectors of the future into acquisitive frenzies.” – Jonathan Lethem
“Black Clock is one of the literary magazines I can’t wait to see when it arrives in the mail, and the thing I read that night before all else.” – Susan Straight
“Black Clock provides a much needed fix of experimental fiction and adventurous writing. If you’re getting the itch for some literary stimulation, cut down on the lattes and invest in a subscription.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
“One of the contemporary literary magazines with real vision — and they are in short supply.” – Rick Moody
Black Clock is published semi-annually by the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) MFA Writing Program.
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