Denis Johnson, the beloved, award-winning author best known for his seminal collection “Jesus’ Son” died Wednesday at age 67. Three years ago, Johnson gave a rare interview, corresponding ...

Denis Johnson's posthumous short story collection, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, is full of last calls to his readers signaling, "Hurry up please, it's time." Take these eerie sentences spoken ...

Denis Johnson, the author behind the seminal collection Jesus' Son, has died at the age of 67. A protean stylist who made a career of defying readers' expectations, he crafted fiction, poetry and ...

In his final collection, Denis Johnson gives us beautiful, imperfect and wonderfully damaged men. Men who don’t “expect to live in the future,” men haunted by their pasts, men trying to find ...

Nobody ever wrote like Denis Johnson. Nobody ever came close. The author of books like Jesus' Son and Tree of Smoke was a hardcore minimalist who could say in one sentence what other writers ...

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, by Denis Johnson(Random House) They do fit the theme of the book, which is failure, either to rise above the ordinary as the advertising man Whit in the title story ...

“Writing. It’s easy work,” reflects a character in “Triumph Over the Grave,” a story in Denis Johnson’s just-published posthumous collection, “The Largesse of the Sea Maiden.” ...

“Write in blood,” Denis Johnson commanded. Never one for moderation, the late author is best known for “Jesus’ Son,” his 1992 story collection about a junkie named F—head. Later books ...

When a friend texted me the news that Denis Johnson had died, I was deep inside my everyday life, far away from the world of fiction, at the back of an Italian joint in Boston’s north end ...

I thought of the movie of Jesus’ Son last month when I heard that the author Denis Johnson had died at the age of 67. One image in particular swam into view: the main character, played by Billy ...

When Ernest Hemingway wrote about the death of Joseph Conrad for the Transatlantic Review, in October of 1924, he didn’t miss the chance to land a literary left hook on his mentor’s behalf ...

See About archive blog posts. What Johnson does so well here is to reintegrate his two parallel plot lines -- the one involving Jimmy Luntz and the other about Harry Gambol -- while starting to ...