Denis Johnson's posthumous short story collection, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, is full of last calls to his readers signaling, "Hurry up please, it's time." Take these eerie sentences spoken ...

Denis Johnson was best known for his 1992 short story collection Jesus' Son. He won the 2007 National Book Award for the novel, Tree of Smoke. Johnson died Thursday at age 67. The literary world ...

Denis Johnson ought to have had a free pass. Denis Johnson ought to have been exempt. To write as he did, in this crucible of a world, it ought to be worth more than to die on Wednesday at 67 ...

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 ...

Denis Johnson died on Wednesday, at the age of sixty-seven. A few weeks ago, not knowing that he was fighting cancer, I asked him if he’d be willing to contribute to a series of short pieces abo ...

I was on assignment in Central America when I heard of Denis Johnson’s passing last month, from liver cancer, at the age of 67. And my first reaction was to wonder just which towering figures of ...

Denis Johnson’s first and most perfectly realized novel, “Angels,” was the first novel I ever bought new, in hardcover. This was in 1983, in Ithaca, New York, the first wet, yellow week of ...