Plays well with others. (San Francisco).(Hellhound on My Trail, Shoppers Carried by Escalators into the Flames and Soul of a Whore by Denis Johnson)(Interview)
American Theatre, March, 2003 by Clark, Andrea
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> "I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S WRONG WITH me," says Denis Johnson, the writer best known for his Jesus' Son stories. "I'm supposed to be writing a novel. I mean, I have a contract. I sit down and I work on it for two days--and all of a sudden I start working on a play." Having inspired the next generation in fiction as well as the last-John Updike and Don DeLillo are among his fans--Johnson's lyrical storytelling now serves him well in his transformation from novelist to playwright Johnson had written six novels and five books of poetry before his work found the stage at ...
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