Lannan Readings & Conversations
Denis Johnson
with Gary KamiyaWednesday April 11 2007
Click the Play button (triangle) to listen to the Denis Johnson Introduction and Reading.
Click the Play button (triangle) to listen to the Denis Johnson Conversation with Gary Kamiya.
Denis Johnson's story "Homeless and High" begins, "I arrived penniless in Berkeley in February of 1973, at night, dropped off on Telegraph Avenue by a woman driving around in her commune's Volvo." He is the author of the celebrated collection of stories Jesus' Son, which was made into a feature film by the same name in 1999. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and McSweeney's. His recent novel, Angel, tells the story of a fleeing housewife toting two kids and an ex-Navy, ex-con who all meet on a Greyhound bus.
Gary Kamiya is the executive editor and one of the founders of the online magazine Salon.com, where he has written about politics, literature, the Middle East, sports, music, art, race, travel, and film, among other subjects, and is a regular contributor to The New York Times Book Review.
