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being the third set of anagrams
... set in a white-collar office in the wake of the dot-com debacle. REEFS TOOK ME By Denis Johnson The author of "Jesus' Son" offers a soulful novel about the travails of a large cast of characters during the Vietnam War. NONFICTION RAPE ME, i.e. ...
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Boston University Professors Proffer Diverse Summer Reading Recommendations
... by Billy Collins. "Heat" by Bill Buford "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell "Solaris" by Stanislaw Lem "Jesus' Son" by Denis Johnson "In Persuasion Nation" by George Saunders "Saturday" by Ian McEwan "Bangkok 8" by John Burdett "Geek Love" by ...
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Finally, a Reason to Buy Playboy
Photo: Cindy Johnson/Courtesy of FSG At last, Playboy is sexy again! Novelist Denis Johnson - whose magnum opus Tree of Smoke won the National Book Award last year and whose Jesus' Son is a minor masterpiece - ...
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Review: 'Northline' rings truer than true
... the bleakness is tempered with a soulfulness that keeps the story from becoming morose. As with Denis Johnson's "Jesus' Son," Vlautin's work comes up for air just when you need it most. An ongoing trope in the novel is Allison's subconscious ...
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... Raymond Carver and the comic Faulkner of the Snopes cycle, maybe even the drug-soaked prose of Denis Johnson in Jesus' Son . Pollock has his own strong voice, though, writing intense stories that are ugly, funny and sad in equal measure. A late ...
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in Review Books: The Education of Hopey Glass and Knockemstiff CD: Trouble In Mind
... Raymond Carver and the comic Faulkner of the Snopes cycle, maybe even the drug-soaked prose of Denis Johnson in Jesus' Son . Pollock has his own strong voice, though, writing intense stories that are ugly, funny and sad in equal measure. A late ...
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... and rottweiler. Dogs like that don't belong to real Jews. He (Jack, not the dog) appeared in a film called Jesus' Son. Haimishe? We don't think so. Then there were Jack's parents' jobs: both were satellite engineers. Now, that's a Jewish job if it ...
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Will Patton Stars in 'Des Moines' Free Readings at The Flea
Tuesday, February 5, 2008; Posted: 11:54 AM - by BWW News Desk Evenstar Films ( Jesus' Son ) will present free staged readings of Des Moines , a new play by acclaimed author Denis Johnson, winner of the 2007 National Book Award for Tree of Smoke. ...
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being the third set of anagrams
... set in a white-collar office in the wake of the dot-com debacle. REEFS TOOK ME By Denis Johnson The author of "Jesus' Son" offers a soulful novel about the travails of a large cast of characters during the Vietnam War. NONFICTION RAPE ME, i.e. ...
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is Tree of Smoke a literary hoax?
... in 2006 sent a questionnaire to writers, editors, and critics, a collection of Johnson's short stories titled Jesus' Son is regarded by some as the best American book of the past 25 years. He is often called "a writer's writer," with the customary ...
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... JP: How did Intersection begin working with Denis in the first place? SSJ: We did a couple of stories from Jesus' Son in 1999 with a group called Word for Word , which is how we became acquainted. He had heard his words read by other people before, ...
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Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27.00 In his first novel in nine years, acclaimed author Denis Johnson takes the Vietnam War as his canvas and creates a masterpiece.
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What to read: Denis Johnson's Vietnam epic
... of JFK's assassination and following through to the States in 1980. Best known for his short story collection "Jesus' Son," Johnson explores his trademark down-and-out characters with a couple of grunts, the Henderson brothers from Phoenix, but he ...
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We asked prominent authors, artistes and filmmakers to share and discuss the books they enjoyed reading in 2007.
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Apocalypse Now: Johnson's Tree of Smoke smolders and burns
... could fill a trauma ward. Here are men and women hollowed out by domestic loss (The Name of the World), drug use (Jesus' Son), and failed suicide attempts (Resuscitation of a Drowned Man), not to mention the end of the world (Fiskadoro). Entering ...
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... with such a flavorless characterization of his fiction? I can't imagine that he would. While I would not call Jesus' Son "the most potent work of American fiction in the last 20 years" (among other reasons because it was actually published in 1992), ...
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... waiting for Johnson to deliver. He is most famous for his first novel, Angels, and his book of linked stories, Jesus' Son . Both are written in a trademark poetic prose that has led critics and writers to celebrate the arrival of his books. His ...
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