Black Clock Issue 14

Black Clock #14

by Steve Erickson (Editor), Andrew Haug (Designer)

Following 2010's acclaimed "mix tape" edition of Black Clock, which summarized the magazine's first seven years, issue #14 introduces a Black Clock that's new in look and design even as it continues to press beyond the creative barriers the national literary journal already has broken. Both in its contributors and subject matter the new Black Clock finds women on the verge: of revelation, euphoria, madness and history.

220 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2011

About the author

Steve Erickson is a distinguished American novelist known for a visionary, dream-fueled style that blends European modernism with American pulp and postmodernism. Raised in Los Angeles, he studied film and political philosophy at UCLA, influences that permeate celebrated works such as Days Between Stations, Tours of the Black Clock, and Zeroville. Critics, including Greil Marcus, have labeled him "the only authentic American surrealist," placing him in the lineage of Pynchon and DeLillo. His most acclaimed novel, Shadowbahn, was hailed as a masterpiece even prior to its release and was later adapted for BBC Radio. A "writer’s writer," Erickson has published ten novels translated into over a dozen languages, consistently appearing on best-of-the-year lists for The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. He is the recipient of the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an American Academy of Arts and Letters award. Erickson served for fourteen years as the founding editor of the journal Black Clock and is currently a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Riverside.