Black Clock Issue 10

Black Clock #10

by Steve Erickson (editor), Bruce Bauman

Black Clock is a biannual magazine dedicated to fiction, poetry, and creative essays that explore the frontier territory of constructive anarchy. Black Clock is audacious rather than safe, visceral rather than academic, intellectually engaging rather than antiseptically cerebral and not above fun. Produced by writers for writers, Black Clock encourages risk and eschews editorial interference.

Issue Ten features work by David Lehman, Diana Wagman, Robert Polito, Geoff Nicholson, T. Towles, Dana Spiotta, Howard Zanen, Lou Matthews, Thodore Ross, Brian Evenson, Alison Turner, Iris Seymour, Emily White, Scott Bradfield, Lisa Teasley, Denise Hamilton, Howard A. Rodman, Michael Ventura, Francesca Lia Block, and David Lazar

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First published January 1, 2009

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.