Review of Zeroville by Steve Erickson, Wash Post

Here's my review of Zeroville, in the Washington Post Book World.My first encounter with Steve Erickson was Arc d'X, which I devoured in 1993 while fatigued and feverish and bedridden. In that context, it became one of the great reading experiences of my life, virtually phantasmagoric. But I don't know if Arc d'X would have seemed any less hallucinogenic under normal conditions. Over his entire career Erickson has challenged readers with a fiercely intelligent and surprisingly sensual brand of American surrealism that can, at times, seem impenetrable.