Author Denis Johnson, pictured here in 2013, died in May of 2017. The new posthumously published collection, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, features five of Johnson's short stories.

Johnson assembled this collection over years, finishing it with the knowledge of his own death. In his final collection, Denis Johnson gives us beautiful, imperfect and wonderfully damaged men.

Denis Johnson (Cindy Lee Johnson) Johnson's final work is tightly confined. Women are barely mentioned. His characters are middle-aged white men, and their lives seldom rise above the mundane.

Denis Johnson, who died last year, gave us a dozen works of distinctive and inimitable works of fiction. Of these, he is best known for two: “Tree of Smoke,” his 2007 novel about Vietnam and ...

A celebration of the posthumous release of “The Largesse of the Sea Maiden” by Denis Johnson, with readings by Mona Awad, Jeff Parker, Stuart Nadler, Heidi Pitlor and Christopher Boucher, will ...

Denis Johnson ought to have been exempt. To write as he did, in this crucible of a world, it ought to be worth more than to die on Wednesday at 67, or perhaps to die at all.

Denis Johnson finished his 20th and last book, “The Largesse of the Sea Maiden,” just before his death. Christian Lorentzen on why the author of “Jesus’ Son” still haunts the culture ...

Denis Johnson, Who Wrote of the Failed and the Desperate, Dies at 67 Mr. Johnson, the author of “Jesus’ Son,” peopled his novels, stories and poems with drifters, addicts, inmates and spies.

In the 1990s, Denis Johnson was the coolest novelist in America, writing unconventional, god-haunted, psychedelic fiction. In "Fiskadoro," his book about a post-apocalyptic Key West, and in "Jesus ...

Conducted by Bret Anthony Johnson, author of the story collection ‘Corpus Christi,’ the interview is, to put it charitably, sketchy, but features its share of nuggets nonetheless.

Denis Johnson, Who Wrote of the Failed and the Desperate, Dies at 67 Mr. Johnson, the author of “Jesus’ Son,” peopled his novels, stories and poems with drifters, addicts, inmates and spies.

Denis Johnson, Who Wrote of the Failed and the Desperate, Dies at 67 Mr. Johnson, the author of “Jesus’ Son,” peopled his novels, stories and poems with drifters, addicts, inmates and spies.