Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. (SOUNDBITE OF LANTERNA'S "COASTAL ROUTE")Ĭopyright © 2017 NPR. But he told an interviewer in 2003, the stories of the fallen world, they excite us. We made love in the bed, ate steaks at the restaurant, shot up in the john, puked, cried, accused one another, begged of one another, forgave, promised and carried one another to heaven.ĭenis Johnson was the son of a diplomat who was a liaison with the CIA, and he grew up overseas and in comfortable suburbs. A character in one story says, (reading) I'd been staying at the Holiday Inn with my girlfriend, honestly the most beautiful woman I'd ever known, for three days under a phony name, shooting heroin. He won the National Book Award in 2007 for his novel "Tree Of Smoke," but his best-known work might be his 1992 short story collection, "Jesus' Son," about a group of addicts who ranged around rural America. John Updike said he had the gleaming economy and aggressive minimalism of early Hemingway.
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