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From Stephen Elliott
As a writer, Denis Johnson has demonstrated a remarkable ability to polarize. On the one hand he has impressed some of the most prestigious awards committees in the United States. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship, won the National Book Award in 2007 for Tree of Smoke, and was also short-listed for the Pulitzer that same year.
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I read Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond in a hotel room.
Nowhere fancy: I was in Asheville, North Carolina, facing nothing more uncomfortable than bugs and frogs and humidity, the steady chatter of fat people plunking themselves into the swimming pool outside.
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Dylan Landis, a longtime newspaper and magazine journalist, is the author of Normal People Don’t Live Like This,
Denis Johnson strips bare and shucks the pump in his fast-moving literary noir, Nobody Move.
A review of Nami Mun’s debut novel, Miles from Nowhere