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 ...

In the title story of “The Largesse of the Sea Maiden” by Denis Johnson, an aging ad man struggles with his own relevance: “I note that I’ve lived longer in the past, now, than I can ...

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, ...

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the decades, my work and Denis’s have intersected. When I was on the National Book Award judging committee, in 2007, a bound manuscript of “Tree of Smoke” arrived at my house, early in ...

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 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, ...