Denis Johnson
The action, as it were, is mostly the exhaustively filmed grappling of two beautiful people in no-star motels.
Read MoreDenis Johnson sees that New Age thinking is a response to something very American, very late-twentieth-century—namely the precariousness of identity.
Read MoreOne answer to the question of “Why two plays in verse?” might be that Denis Johnson is a writer relentlessly in pursuit of new forms, and new formal challenges—a literary daredevil always looking for a new vehicle to take for a thrill ride.
Read MoreIn “Train Dreams” the world of beauty and terror is balanced as only our best writers have been able to balance those things.
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Literary Homage: Denis Johnson, American Dostoevsky
Denis Johnson’s spiritual vision was dark and more than a little scary but also supremely generous.
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