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 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 finished his first story collection in 25 years just before he died. The pieces in it are stunning, dark, sometimes as bleak as anything he's ever written — but miraculous to read.

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 ...

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, ...

arts entertainment Books. Denis Johnson leaves a complicated legacy as a writer; how does this posthumous collection fit in? "The Largesse of the Sea Maiden" contains flashes of the weird ...

The writer Denis Johnson. (Courtesy Cindy Lee Johnson) “Writing. It’s easy work,” reflects a character in “Triumph Over the Grave,” a story in Denis Johnson’s just-published posthumous ...

The circumstances of Denis’ African films aren’t wholly unlike those of “The Stars at Noon.” Johnson’s story tracks two white foreigners in 1984 Nicaragua, where U.S.-funded “Contra ...

Once upon a time, Denis Johnson published a collection of stories called "Jesus' Son," flinty shards of lowlife illuminated by the phosphorous glow of the author's despairing faith or faith in ...

Denis Johnson’s globetrotting began at birth, coming into the world in West Germany, in 1949. As the son of a State Department officer who worked with the CIA, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. What Johnson does so well here is to reintegrate his two parallel ...

Denis Johnson’s voice was such a strange and lyrical mixture of daft naïveté and hard-eyed wisdom. The most unfilmable thing in Jesus’ Son, beyond the voice, ...