' Shadowbahn the best kind of experiment: provocative throughout, alive with laughter and surprising in the ways it stirs the heart.' It’s sad, and it’s droll and sometimes it’s gorgeous … In this novel, Erickson has mobilized so much of what feels pressing and urgent about the fractured state of the country in a way that feels fresh and not entirely hopeless, if only because the exercise of art in opposition to complacent thought can never be hopeless … In 2017, it reads like an answer to and sanctuary from the American Century to come.” “Steve Erickson’s novel is: compassionate, weird, unpredictable, jaunty. “A beautiful, moving, strange examination of apocalypse and rebirth.” Original and fearless in vision and form, Steve Erickson’s novel speaks to our current times, and to a nation “defiling its own great idea.

So begins Shadowbahn, a kaleidoscopic, musical road-trip across the dreamscape of American destiny. Over the days and months and years to come, he’s driven mad by a voice in his head that sounds like his but isn’t, and by the memory of a country where he survived in his brother’s place. And on the ninety-third floor of the South Tower, Jesse Presley, the stillborn twin of the most famous singer who ever lived, suddenly awakes. to Michigan - the Towers seem to sing, even as everybody hears a different song. To the tens of thousands drawn to the “American Stonehenge” - including Parker and Zema, siblings driving from L.A. When the Twin Towers suddenly reappear in the Badlands of South Dakota two decades after their fall, nobody can explain their return.

Fiona Maazel, New York Times Book Review an answer to and sanctuary from the American Century to come.' Stay tuned for the Patreon bonus episode in two weeks, where Matt and Dave talk to Steve about his favorite novels of all-time.“Gorgeous, compassionate, weird, unpredictable, alarmingly prescient. To help celebrate the release of Conversations with Steve Erickson, out now from University of Mississippi Press, we're joined by the book's editors, familiar faces on the show, Matt Luter and Mike Miley, who talk with Steve about the book itself, his body of work, his latest online piece 'American Stutter,' music, film, and lots more. In Episode 61, we welcome the highly celebrated, multi award-winning American writer Steve Erickson, author of Shadowbahn, Tours of the Black Clock, These Dreams of You, and a host of other novels and non-fiction.

Shadowbahn by Steve Erickson