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May 26, 2017 · Denis Johnson, who died on Wednesday, at the age of sixty-seven, wept easily, without embarrassment. “I just do this a lot,” he told his students at a writing seminar in St. Petersburg, Russia...
May 31, 2017 · On May 24, 2017, Denis Johnson, one of the great writers of his generation, died. We asked a few of his colleagues, friends, and former students to share their thoughts on what he meant both to the people who knew him, and to American letters.
- Literary Hub
Feb 25, 2018 · This phenomenon is complicated in the case of Denis Johnson, who died of liver cancer in May 2017, because The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, his final book, assuming no other scrapings from notebooks or hard drives emerge, comprises five stories preoccupied with death.
Feb 28, 2018 · In 2002, while I was the literary editor at Details magazine, I interviewed Denis Johnson on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of what is perhaps still his most famous book, Jesus’ Son. When he died last year, at the age of 67, I wondered if I could locate the cassette I’d recorded the interview on all those years ago.
- Janet Steen
Dec 20, 2022 · The late Denis Johnson, who died five years ago, seems to have viewed the world this way, and embodies that paradox in nearly all of his work—his poetry, his fiction, his nonfiction, and his...
Jun 6, 2017 · When a friend texted me the news that Denis Johnson had died, I was deep inside my everyday life, far away from the world of fiction, at the back of an Italian joint in Boston’s north end ...
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May 26, 2017 · May 26, 2017. In one of the rare interviews he did, the fiction writer and poet Denis Johnson — who died on Wednesday at 67 — was asked about his craft, and he quoted these lines from Joseph...
