Writer, musician, and poet Christian Kiefer discusses his literary influences, the “beautiful, beat up, and weird town” that is Reno, and writing from the perspective of beasts in his new novel The Animals.
...moreJesus’ Son is often considered the seminal work of Denis Johnson’s career. But recently Johnson called the book a “rip-off” of Isaac Babel’s early 20th century work, Red Cavalry. For The Millions, Nathan Scott McNamara contests Johnson’s assertion, arguing that “rip-off” is not the proper word to describe the influence of Red Cavalry on the author’s story collection: In Jesus’ Son, the […]
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Matthew Tanner reviews The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson today in Rumpus Books.
...moreSentence construction. That’s all a writer does anyhow, right? Not all sentences are made with great care and hold sentiments like this one: There is something artful and sad in juxtaposing the certainty that something is wrong with the uncertainty over what that thing is. Tin House explores the artistic genius tucked away in the sentences crafted […]
...moreAs 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 […]
...moreI 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.
...moreDylan Landis, a longtime newspaper and magazine journalist, is the author of Normal People Don’t Live Like This,
...moreDenis Johnson strips bare and shucks the pump in his fast-moving literary noir, Nobody Move.
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Chris Feliciano Arnold reviews Nami Mun’s debut novel, Miles from Nowhere.
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