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There isn't an American voice I love listening to more than Denis Johnson's. -- Michael Herr To put the matter simply, Denis Johnson is one of the best and most compelling novelists and story writers in the nation. -- Elle Johnson's dark and violent fiction has prepared us for some of what we find in Seek, but ultimately it's his confrontation with the truth. . . that gives the book its flashes of brilliance. -- Ted Conover, New York Times Book Review Denis Johnson writes with a fervor that can only be described as religious. Seek is scary and beautiful and ecstatic and uncontrolled...he elevates the mundane to the sublime; he boils things down to their essence. He's simply one of the few writers around whose sentences make you shudder. -- Adrienne Miller, Esquire Mr. Johnson zeroes in on the details that bring the reader into the story. -- The Wall Street Journal

Denis Johnson writes with a fervor that can only be described as religious. Seek is scary and beautiful and ecstatic and uncontrolled...he elevates the mundane to the sublime; he boils things down to their essence. He's simply one of the few writers around whose sentences make you shudder. --Adrienne Miller, Esquire Johnson's dark and violent fiction has prepared us for some of what we find in Seek, but ultimately it's his confrontation with the truth. . . that gives the book its flashes of brilliance.--Ted Conover, New York Times Book Review Mr. Johnson zeroes in on the details that bring the reader into the story.--The Wall Street Journal There isn't an American voice I love listening to more than Denis Johnson's.--Michael Herr To put the matter simply, Denis Johnson is one of the best and most compelling novelists and story writers in the nation.--Elle

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Denis Johnson is the author of The Name of the World, Already Dead, Jesus' Son, Resuscitation of a Hanged Man, Fiskadoro, The Stars at Noon, and Angels. His poetry has been collected in the volume The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly. He is the recipient of a Lannan Fellowship and a Whiting Writer's Award, among many other honors for his work. He lives in northern Idaho.

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