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May 5, 2024 | 
biblioracle.substack.com | Annie Proulx |Eskor Johnson |John Warner |David Epstein
The Pulitzer Prize awards, including the fiction prize, will be announced tomorrow. I have a long history of incorrectly predicting the winner, a track record I am eager to extend by incorrectly predicting this year’s prize. Before I do that, however, I’m going to predict next year’s fiction’s prize: James by Percival Everett.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
news.lee.net | Eskor Johnson |Patrick Condon
Slide, the singly named protagonist and narrator of Eskor David Johnson's "Pay as You Go," launches into an amusing litany of complaints about his crummy apartment before the first page of this strange, beguiling debut novel is turned. "The toilet isn't flushing properly ... sometimes at night, pieces of paint are landing in my mouth and I wake up choking ... the windows are dusty and they don't look out onto anything ... the microwave never heats up my food ... the stairway smells ...
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
auburnpub.com | Eskor Johnson |Patrick Condon
Slide, the singly named protagonist and narrator of Eskor David Johnson's "Pay as You Go," launches into an amusing litany of complaints about his crummy apartment before the first page of this strange, beguiling debut novel is turned.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
kansascity.com | Eskor Johnson
Slide, the singly named protagonist and narrator of Eskor David Johnson's "Pay as You Go," launches into an amusing litany of complaints about his crummy apartment before the first page of this strange, beguiling debut novel is turned. "The toilet isn't flushing properly ... sometimes at night, pieces of paint are landing in my mouth and I wake up choking ... the windows are dusty and they don't look out onto anything ... the microwave never heats up my food ... the stairway smells ...
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
sacbee.com | Eskor Johnson
Slide, the singly named protagonist and narrator of Eskor David Johnson's "Pay as You Go," launches into an amusing litany of complaints about his crummy apartment before the first page of this strange, beguiling debut novel is turned.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
hastingstribune.com | Eskor Johnson |Patrick Condon
Slide, the singly named protagonist and narrator of Eskor David Johnson's "Pay as You Go," launches into an amusing litany of complaints about his crummy apartment before the first page of this strange, beguiling debut novel is turned.
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Oct 25, 2023 | 
startribune.com | Eskor Johnson |Patrick Condon
Slide, the singly named protagonist and narrator of Eskor David Johnson's "Pay as You Go," launches into an amusing litany of complaints about his crummy apartment before the first page of this strange, beguiling debut novel is turned.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
themillions.com | Eskor Johnson
I often talk with other writers about the engines of stories: features of character, plot or even object that allow the narrative happenings to unfold. Sometimes this engine can be literal, as in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” O’Connor’s classic tale features a family on a road trip: An actual vehicle moves the plot along from moment to eventual tragic moment. In other iconic works, the engine is more difficult to pinpoint.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
lithub.com | Eskor Johnson
A meta-narrator has an authorial awareness of a story being told. They make their presence known, intervening when they deem necessary. In the case that they are also the protagonist (which is often) then they must be as adept as immersing themselves in the real-time story unfolding up close as they are in commenting on it from on high. I have a fascination with these sorts of narrators for as long as I have had stories told to me (which is always).
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
scribd.com | Eskor Johnson
I often talk with other writers about the engines of stories: features of character, plot or even object that allow the narrative happenings to unfold. Sometimes this engine can be literal, as in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” O’Connor’s classic tale features a family on a road trip: An actual vehicle moves the plot along from moment to eventual tragic moment. In other iconic works, the engine is more difficult to pinpoint.
