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	Johnson, Denis Criticism and Essays
		Johnson is recognized for his compelling depictions of isolated, degraded individuals who strive to attain spiritual fulfillment or transcendence in the margins of American society.
		Johnson's short fiction has earned distinction for the hallucinatory quality of his writing, his poetic, carefully constructed language, and the misfit, often drug-addicted or mentally unstable characters who provide honest, unsentimental insight into the lurid underside of contemporary American life.
		Johnson was born in Munich, West Germany, on July 1, 1949, the son of an American diplomat, and lived in various foreign countries as a child and adolescent.
	www.enotes.com /short-story-criticism/johnson-denis (997 words)

	Denis Johnson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For Denis Johnson from London, who invented the bicycle forerunner called "hobby horse", see Denis Johnson of London.
		Denis Johnson (born 1949 in Munich, West Germany) is a German American writer who has written numerous novels, short stories and poems.
		Johnson's plays have been produced in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and Seattle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Denis_Johnson (351 words)

	Salon \| California Demon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		in Denis Johnson's amazing new novel, "Already Dead," the protagonist, Nelson Fairchild, finds himself, in the middle of the night, staring down at what he mistakenly thinks is the corpse of his wife.
		Denis Johnson is a writer for those of us who -- like Fairchild, if not as doomed -- came undone and never quite came back together, who lost something enormous in the blizzard of years and find ourselves staring into the void under the dinner table.
		That Johnson should have ventured into the shiny, Byzantine-gold world of the supernatural is not entirely surprising.
	www.salon.com /aug97/dead970808.html (247 words)

	Amazon.de: Angels: English Books: Denis Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Johnson's compact masterpiece takes us into the land of America's dispossessed bastard children and the power of poetic beauty which comprises the small and great moments of their lives.
		Even more remarkable is Johnson's ability to segway from gritty realism into inspired poetry that brings to light the lost angellic souls that populate the American wastelands, shedding their wouded beauty upon pages, illuminating many truths.
		Johnson was excluded, even though his first three novels were originally Vintage paperbacks; now "Angels" is the only book of his in the series.
	www.amazon.de /Angels-Denis-Johnson/dp/0060988827 (974 words)

	Seek: Reports From The Edges of America & Beyond by Denis Johnson \| PopMatters Book Review
		Johnson's treks through Africa — "The Land of Oz"; the place "where God came to learn to wait" — are by far the most gripping descriptions of a continent in which brutal civil wars, famine and longstanding strife have decimated cultures.
		Johnson is escorted around the war-torn country by a group of Kalishnikov-toting, high-on-chaht rebels, in a state of disbelief as to how given the bombings, plagues, and other ills, Somilia continues to exist.
		In Johnson's overseas escapades, the attitude toward the States is mixed: admiration and imitation (which is, after all, the most sincere form of flattery), coupled with either sadness or resentment about the United State's lack of attention, or on the flip side, its direct interference.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/s/seek.shtml (1210 words)

	Amazon.com: Fiskadoro: Books: Denis Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Johnson shows you wonders, he embraces pain and fear and death as integral to life, and he reminds you that despite everything, life is precious and profound, and, yes, worth it--and sometimes strange in ways that are almost impossible to imagine.
		Johnson's survivors are shamefully ignorant by today's standards, and the cult offshoots of this future world demand horrific and seemingly needless blood sacrifices, but Johnson's future never devolves into caricature.
		Johnson seems to be suggesting this as well, with the interpolation of Fiskadoro's post-apocalyptic world and Grandmother Cheung's similar escape from the chaos of collapsing South Vietnam in the 1970s.
	www.amazon.com /Fiskadoro-Denis-Johnson/dp/0060976098 (2250 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Jesus' Son: Books: Denis Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Denis Johnson's prose is filled with a sensitivity which somehow manages to bypass sentimentality and is both irritating and sleazy, yet somehow beautiful and awe-inspiring.
		Johnson has an eye for the surreal images of the American landscape, the tiny details that are so beloved of American Independent filmmakers, giving the book an intensely visual edge.
		Johnson treats these characters with a warmth and humanity that is refreshing, as so much writing of this type slides into nihilistic harshness.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Jesus-Son-Denis-Johnson/dp/041377242X (1161 words)

	Amazon.ca: Angels: Books: Denis Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This novel, which suggests a brilliant mixture of William Blake and James M. Cain, established Denis Johnson as a major talent in American fiction, a promise confirmed in his later books Fiskadoro and The Stars at Noon.
		Denis Johnson, known for his portraits of America's dispossessed, sets off literary pyrotechnics on this highway odyssey, lighting the trek with wit and a personal metaphysics that defiantly takes on the world.
		Johnson is one of our greatest and most underappreciated living authors (yes, underappreciated, even though he has been lavishly praised by critics).
	www.amazon.ca /Angels-Denis-Johnson/dp/0394759877 (1230 words)

	Denis Johnson
		Johnson fans will recognize that cast of characters: Prostitutes and drunkards and petty criminals populate his tales the way they populate the songs of Johnny Cash.
		By most of the usual indicators, Johnson's career was humming along, but he seems to feed on bad luck, so it's no surprise that the strange process of publishing Jesus' Son started with a bungled trip to the Philippines for Esquire in 1988.
		Johnson still thought the pieces were too short and too bizarre for a story collection, until he hired an accountant to straighten out his finances and found himself in debt to the IRS for about $10,000.
	www.radiofreemike.com /johnson.html (2096 words)

	Bookreporter.com - Bookreporter.com - THE NAME OF THE WORLD by Denis Johnson
		In this latest novelistic effort from Denis Johnson, not known for his clear and lucid storytelling, a cliche subject is taken to a new level, with the depths of despair for which his other famous work, JESUS' SON, is well-known, but with a compassion that is not usually found in his other work.
		Johnson, born poet that he is, prefers obscure references to emotional states than straight-arrow discussions of the psychological situations that Reed is passing through on his way to what we hope will be a redemptive period for him.
		But, ultimately, I think Johnson is a scaredy-cat writer, a beatnik in sheep's clothing, the kind of writer who wanders around the face of the language map without ever really settling down and telling us everything.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0060192488.asp (538 words)

	Amazon.de: Jesus' Son: English Books: Denis Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Denis Johnson writes with an intensity, sparseness, and fearlessness that is unmatched in American Fiction.
		Denis Johnson is the best writer in America today, "Jesus's Son" is his most important work.
		Denis Johnson's language, street-smart and lyrical and fierce, cannot be replicated in another medium.
	www.amazon.de /Jesus-Son-Denis-Johnson/dp/0571166881 (1493 words)

	Cosmopoetica » Fiskadoro (Denis Johnson) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Fiskadoro, Denis Johnson’s second novel, is a post-apocalyptic fever dream set in the Florida Keys, where a large group of people have survived thanks to two missiles that fell to earth as duds.
		Only the Cuban government– known solely as ghostly voices on the few surviving radios– is suspected to have survived, Christians and Muslims have grown together into a shared religion, the US government is nearly wholly forgotten, the war and the “time of the cold” on their way to becoming myth.
		The story is basically told through the three unreliable narrators: Fiskadoro, who has experience nothing of the time before the war, Cheung, who is stuck futilely trying to reconcile this new existence with the old, and Grandmother Wright, who is largely lost in her own past as a child refugee from the Vietnam war.
	www.cosmopoetica.com /blog/archives/2006/07/02/fiskadoro-denis-johnson (397 words)

	KQED Arts: Profile - Campo Santo with Denis Johnson
		Johnson may be most well known for "Jesus' Son," which was made into a movie in 1999, but he has published over a dozen books including novels, collections of poetry and a collection of his international journalism.
		Johnson, still a relative newcomer to the world of theater, is able to continue experimenting as he finds his way.
		For Johnson maintaining this level of involvement isn't just about finessing the dialogue or putting his stamp on the production -- it's an opportunity to connect with the actors in ways that continue to inspire him.
	www.kqed.org /arts/places/profile.jsp?id=4264 (579 words)

	Denis Johnson - Moviefone
		Photo of Denis Johnson courtesy Intersection for the Arts...
		Denis Johnson: In the second play we worked on (Shoppers Carried by Escalators into the...
		Denis Johnson - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Denis Johnson Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/denis-johnson/161667/main (90 words)

	Powell's Books - Jesus' Son: Stories by Denis Johnson
		Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory vision of contemporary American life, and marks a new level of achievement for this acclaimed writer.
		"Johnson has the distinction of being both a poet and a novelist of gritty realism who uses language like a paring knofe to slice through to the bones of his subject matter....[These stories] are as muscular and tight as a washboard stomach, as resonant as a drum."
		Denis Johnson is the author of The Name of the World, Already Dead, Jesus' Son, Resuscitation of a Hanged Man, Fiskadoro, The Stars at Noon, and Angels.
	www.powells.com /biblio/0060975776 (425 words)

	Amazon.com: Jesus' Son: Stories by: Books: Denis Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The stories are written in a snappy, jazzy, breezy tone of disaffected "groovyness," drug addicts, vagabonds, social degenerates, minor criminals wandering the precincts of disjointed narrative structures, bars, motels, buses, low-income housing, mental hospitals, the desert highway, the swampy styx.
		Johnson's stories start to work on you is that the veneer of Kerouacian frivolity is a judicious literary illusion, that these tales are not only painstakingly constructed, but on an emotional level, absolutely precious, a literary godsend!
		With a words of Lou Reeds "Heroine" Denis Johnson creates appealing yet troubling world of darkness which calls for you again and again, mostly becouse that is the world that we are living in.
	www.amazon.com /Jesus-Son-Stories-Denis-Johnson/dp/0060975776 (2308 words)

	Featured Author: Denis Johnson
		Johnson constructs a fictional cosmos that is hard to enter, but whose resonant power becomes increasingly evident."
		"Johnson is a wonderful writer, and murk is one of the things he does best -- even if it sometimes swamps the proceedings entirely.
		Her decision to string together a series of self-contained vignettes could have resulted in meandering tedium, but she manages to find a loose, improvisatory rhythm that matches Mr.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/00/07/09/specials/johnson.html (497 words)

	The Seattle Times: Theater & arts: Novelist's play "Hellhound" thrives on whip-smart lingo
		And in his play "Hellhound on My Trail," Denis Johnson co-opts it for his own purposes: as a wellspring of theatrical surrealism.
		Johnson's droll, whip-smart comedy (now having its Seattle debut at Theater Schmeater) is really three separate one-acts connected by a thin familial cord.
		Like Shepard, Johnson chips away at the changing ethos of the modern West via a family of misfits who barely function in it.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/theaterarts/2002214899_hellhound22.html (520 words)

	Denis Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		One of the things I've noticed about Denis Johnson is that every time I read a new book I see he's moved to another desperate-sounding place.
		Another thing I like about Denis Johnson is that he refuses to write jacket blurbs for his writer friends.
		Denis Johnson still owes $5 to a former student of his who sold him a Rolling Stones album.
	ezone.org /rag/djohnson.html (253 words)

	Denis Johnson's House in Covent Garden - London - UK Attraction
		Denis Johnson is one of the most famous men to have lived in Longacre close, to the central Covent Garden Market.
		He took the basic design of the bicycle and patented the idea, inventing what was known as a 'hobby horse'.
		The bicycle was driven along by the person pushing the vehicle with their feet, although when a chain and peddles were later added the basic design of Johnson's framework stayed the same.
	www.ukattraction.com /london/denis-johnsons-house.htm (170 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: Defining the Name of the World: Denis Johnson's Latest Novel
		Quite early in Denis Johnson's new novel, the narrator observes that "people I hardly knew often suggested, one way or another, that they'd like to help me." Then he explains why.
		Anyone who hasn't done battle with their demons and come out the other side can enter Denis Johnson's world and get a lesson.
		Johnson's typical clarity is in powerful focus here.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2000-07-07/books_feature.html (998 words)

	Shoppers : Two Plays By Denis Johnson Summary
		The character could be speaking for his creator, because human imperfection is one of Denis Johnson''s specialties -- in his critically acclaimed novels, short stories, and nonfiction, and, now, in two brilliant new plays.
		When Shoppers Carried by Escalators Into the Flames was performed in San Francisco in 2001, the Chronicle said, There''s an enormous appeal in Johnson''s bleak-comic vision of a semi-mythic American West.
		johnson, american, imperfection, flames, appeal, west, vision, escalators, denis, family
	www.shvoong.com /f/books/19311-shoppers-two-plays-denis-johnson (190 words)

	village voice > theater > Denis Johnson's Shoppers Carried by Escalators Into the Flames by Jessica Winter
		A nine-year-old girl's voice, clear and fragile as cut glass and accompanied by a lonely piano, intones a prologue of sorts to Denis Johnson's new tragicomedy.
		When this rendition of "Desperado," by the Langley Schools Music Project, begins to play, though the lights haven't yet dimmed, most of the audience looks up—puzzled or faintly stricken by the old sound of the young voice, the muffled chords lifting away that seem less heard than remembered.
		Largely a revisitation of ground tread in Johnson's novels, Shoppers offers as its final scene perhaps the bleakest moment in his oeuvre—one that's all the more ruthless for having begun with the loopy appearance of a blue-painted sprite (Emily McDonnell) in hippie-Hindu raiment.
	www.villagevoice.com /theater/0227,winter2,36255,11.html (649 words)

	Denis Johnson Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Denis Johnson was born in 1949 in Munich, Germany, and raised in Tokyo, Manila, and Washington.
		He has received many awards for his work, including a Lannan Fellowship in Fiction and a Whiting Writer’s Award.
		The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millenium General Assembly, Poems, Collected and New appeared in 1995 from Harper Collins.
	www.diacenter.org /prg/poetry/98_99/johnsonbio.html (91 words)

	Denis Johnson Summary
		Described by an anonymous reviewer for Esquire (December 1985) as "a writer who slips smoothly from poetry to the novel and back again," Denis Johnson has produced a significant body of work since he began publishing in the late 1960s.
		In the following essay, Parrish maintains that “Jesus' Son explores Johnson's basic theme of transformation, but it does so to reflect on why the author writes the kind of stories that he does.”
		In the following essay, Parrish examines the recurring themes of transformation and redemption in Jesus' Son, drawing attention to Johnson's preoccupation with transcendence.
	www.bookrags.com /Denis_Johnson (192 words)

	blog schmog: Denis Johnson / Trapdoor 62 / The Po Show
		The Po Show, in association with Theater Schmeater, presents Denis Johnson Interpreting Dreams for Trapdoor 62.
		Denis Johnson, visionary poet and author of "Jesus' Son," comes to interpret the dreams of audience members as a part of Trapdoor 62.
		Denis Johnson is the playwright behind The Cassandra Cycle, a sequence of three darkly comic plays that follow the Cassandra family through a mythical portrait of the American West.
	www.schmeater.org /blog/2005/09/denis-johnson-trapdoor-62-po-show.htm (302 words)

	Denis Johnson's darkly comic touch returns to the Schmee
		Denis Johnson's darkly comic touch returns to the Schmee
		Theatre Schmeater continues its love affair with works by the darkly comic Arizona writer Denis Johnson.
		Johnson is best known as the author of disturbing novels about disturbed people.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /theater/285130_theater15.html?source=rss (433 words)

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