
A Journal of the Plague Years
Steve Erickson(Author)
BLUE BOOKS (Publisher)
Published on 1. May 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
346 pages
979-8-218-15676-3 (ISBN)
Description
In the 1600s Daniel Defoe published what's regarded as the first work of literary nonfiction. Chronicling the upheaval of our own time, writers created a new literary language combining state-of-the-art journalism and literary writing. This collection, a swooping narrative from the magazine of the same name, offers a roadmap pointing to the future, full of humor, politics, and pathos. Contributors include Steve Erickson, Mikal Gilmore, Blanche McCrary Boyd, Thrity Umrigar, Ted Mooney, Sarah Chayes, J.C. Hallman, Tim Page, Beth Alvarado, Lauren Camp, Maxine Chernoff, Gregory McNamee, Matt Cooper, Michael Brown, Sunnie R. Clahchischiligi, Paul Cullum, Keith Donnell Jr., David Galef, Jami Macarty, Mike Medberry, Christine Kiessling, Alberto Montero, Paul E Nelson, David Weir, Ben Quick, Stephen Derwent Partington, Stephen Pain, Hailey Nicole Warner, Herb Randall, William Thatcher Dowell, Michelle Browder.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
743 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-218-15676-3 (9798218156763)
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is the author of ten novels: Days Between Stations, Rubicon Beach, Tours of the Black Clock, Arc d'X, Amnesiascope, The Sea Came in at Midnight, Our Ecstatic Days, Zeroville, These Dreams of You and Shadowbahn. He also has written three books about politics and popular culture: Leap Year, American Nomad and American Stutter. Numerous editions have been published in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Greek, Turkish, Russian, Chinese and Japanese. Over the years he has written for Esquire, Rolling Stone, Smithsonian, Conjunctions, the New York Times Magazine and other publications and journals, and his work has been widely anthologized. For twelve years he was editor and co-founder of the national literary journal Black Clock. Currently he is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside. He has received the American Academy of Arts and Letters award in literature, a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and twice has been nominated for the National Magazine Award for criticism and commentary. In July 2021 the University Press of Mississippi published Conversations With Steve Erickson as part of a series that has included F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, James Baldwin, William S. Burroughs, Toni Morrison and Gabriel García Márquez.