42: Al Jacobs on JESUS' SON (1992) by Denis Johnson

NYC — Al Jacobs, 30, is an NYC-based writer from Toledo, Ohio. He read the copy of Jesus' Son (1992) I lent him over the past few months. I reread the Picador Modern Classics pocket version i copped after lending him my old version over the same period. Jesus' Son (1992) is a series of interconnected short stories narrated by a guy, "Fuckhead," and follows several recurring characters, all addicts, who engage in drug use, petty crime, and murder. Denis Johnson (1949–2017) published Jesus' Son at the age of 43. CONTENTS 5m pod start 8m the infantilized artist boi dream / baby stuff 10m my sus “The Other Man” take 13m you gotta be OUT HERE 15m when they do that lowkey B & E 16m on “autofiction” 21m writing about work/survival/out-here-ness 24m Edmund Wilson v. Nabokov beef as Meek v. Drake beef I’m on Wilson-Meek’s side bro On male isolation/coal miners 26m having empathy for mfkrs more important than everything 31m mommy stuff 33m Jesus God’s son who Jesus’s son tho?? 34m idc abt ur art unless self-snitch in it 36m Sam Pink bizarro absurdism 40m writing abt the outcasts the fuckups the deformed 42m should characters be redeemed 43m dwell in the ambiguity bro 1h 7m Japanese love poems 1h 20m pod end Most recent hitter "Another Way To Stay Calm": https://backpatio.press/2019/11/06/another-way-to-stay-calm-by-sean-thor-conroe/ http://twitter.com/stconroe http://instagram.com/seanthorconroe http://1storyhaus.com