Denis Johnson

1 month ago | ninaschuyler.substack.com | Denis Johnson |Nina Schuyler

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. It’s 1917, and Robert Grainier, his wife and infant daughter live far from the railroad village of Meadow Creek, Idaho. Grainer is a laborer who does a lot of different jobs, including building bridges for the train to cross over bodies of water. The engine referred to in the sentence helps drag logs out of the forest. It’s an epic story told in miniature, a slim 116 pages, filled with beautiful sentences like this one.

Jul 8, 2024 | newspub.live | Denis Johnson |Ann Patchett |Jesmyn Ward |Saidiya Hartman

Stephen King“Atonement,” by Ian McEwan ● “Christine Falls,” by Benjamin Black ● “The Goldfinch,” by Donna Tartt ● “Gone Girl,” by Gillian Flynn ● “No Country for Old Men,” by Cormac McCarthy ● “Oryx and Crake,” by Margaret Atwood ● “The Paying Guests,” by Sarah Waters ● “The Plot Against America,” by Philip Roth ● “The Sympathizer,” by Viet Thanh Nguyen ● “Under the Dome,” by Stephen King1 of these, so far, appears on the 100 Best list.

Jul 7, 2024 | entertainment-mag.com | Denis Johnson |Ali Smith |Ann Patchett |Hilary Mantel

Tree of SmokeLike the project of the title — an intelligence report that the newly minted C.I.A. operative William “Skip” Sands comes to find both quixotic and useless — the Vietnam-era warfare of Johnson’s rueful, soulful novel lives in shadows, diversions and half-truths. There are no heroes here among the lawless colonels, assassinated priests and faith-stricken NGO nurses; only villainy and vast indifference.

Jun 18, 2023 | heraldstandard.com | Hillel Italie |Denis Johnson

NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Gottlieb, the inspired and eclectic literary editor whose brilliant career was launched with Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22” and continued for decades with such Pulitzer Prize-winning classics as Toni Morrison's “Beloved” and Robert Caro's “The Power Broker,” has died at age 92. Gottlieb died Wednesday of natural causes at a New York hospital, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group announced.

Jun 16, 2023 | chroniclet.com | Denis Johnson |Hillel Italie

NEW YORK — Robert Gottlieb, the inspired and eclectic literary editor whose brilliant career was launched with Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22” and continued for decades with such Pulitzer Prize-winning classics as Toni Morrison's “Beloved” and Robert Caro's “The Power Broker,” has died at age 92. Gottlieb died Wednesday of natural causes at a New York hospital, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group announced.