Denis Johnson, fiction writer

[muhammadzahmad]

awesome writer! genius!

[beguiledddddd]

a genius

[ZenBarracuda]

Jesus' Son could be the best book I have read. It is the work of a truly inspired writer, and an essential work of art.

[jawsquid]

One cool motherfucker, and he sure can write.

[WankerYank]

what book is he reading from?

[dmging]

@WankerYank It's from a book called Shoppers which contains Two plays

[Phyllisphila]

He is an amazing writer of fiction and non-fiction.

[sconl]

One of the best writers working today - Thanks for posting.

[cp1492]

I'm new to his work but Tree of Smoke was one of the strangest, most intense and beautiful books I've read for a long time.

[01Silverado]

Thank you for posting. That was wonderful. I laid out on the beach one weekend in June and read his new book, "Nobody Move." Had a blast.

"Jeez, I'm out of pages..." Ha!

[pugman4u]

This afternoon, I read "Jesus' Son", in its entirety. Denis Johnson is an immensely gifted - and underrated - writer, and I hope he will be exposed to broader audience, as he deserves. Thanks for the posting.

[Writerman146]

A truly brilliant and original writer. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this as there's very little out there on Johnson.

[cvarrick]

Go down the stairs, after the California basement, until it's really dark. Then fish around and find the door. It'll never open. Keep pushing on that door. Until it opens. Then go down that next set of stairs till you're in that utmost California basement of your soul, the one that isn't a California basement, because it was from the Old House before This One. And there Denis Johnson is saying stuff he wrote, like, "Dear Satan: I didn't enjoy your jamboree last night."

[downpeninsula]

My favorite writer.

[viperdiamondback]

He's so charming and witty.

[molloyx]

Disturbing that I am the first to comment. Johnson is, to borrow from W H Gass [ from an essay on Henry Miller] a master of 'food and beast language', an author who gets so inside the sweat soaked skin of his divinely dameged characters its seems a form of willful possession. Already Dead and Angels are brute masterpieces and Jesus Son a ragged sort of dreaming. Thanks so much for posting this.