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FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Feinstein, Howard. “Willing to Take a Walk in the Dark.” New York Times (11 June 2000): AR13.

Profile of Alison Maclean, the director of the cinematic adaptation of Jesus' Son.

Hooper, Brad. Review of Jesus' Son, by Denis Johnson. Booklist 89, no. 6 (15 November 1992): 579.

Lauds the “elegant simplicity” of the stories in Jesus' Son.

Kloszewski, Marc. Review of The Name of the World, by Denis Johnson. Library Journal 125, no. 14 (1 September 2000): 249.

Favorable assessment of The Name of the World.

McKinley, Jesse. “A Prodigal Son Turned Novelist Turns Playwright.” New York Times (16 June 2002): section 2, p. 9.

Observes Johnson's writing and family life.

Review of Jesus' Son, by Denis Johnson. Publishers Weekly 239, no. 42 (28 September 1992): 63-4.

Negative review of...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Kirkus Reviews (review date 1 October 1992)
   2. Michiko Kakutani (review date 11 December 1992)
   3. James McManus (review date 27 December 1992)
   4. Marianne Wiggins (review date 15 February 1993)
   5. Todd Grimson (review date 28 February 1993)
   6. David Gates (review date February 1993)
   7. Jack Miles (review date June 1993)
   8. John Sutherland (review date 2 July 1993)
   9. Daria Donnelly (review date 13 August 1993)
   10. Daniel McGuiness (review date summer 1993)
   11. Sven Birkerts (review date October-November 1993)
   12. Denis Johnson (essay date 1998)
   13. Kirkus Reviews (review date 15 May 2000)
   14. Publishers Weekly (review date 15 May 2000)
   15. Susan Salter Reynolds (review date 25 June 2000)
   16. Robert Stone (review date 9 July 2000)
   17. Richard Eder (review date 14 July 2000)
   18. Economist (review date 15 July 2000)
   19. John Updike (review date 24 July 2000)
   20. David Gates (review date 31 July 2000)
   21. Susan Yuzna (essay date 13 August 2000)
   22. Robert McClure Smith (essay date winter 2001)
   23. Irving Malin (review date spring 2001)
   24. Timothy L. Parrish (essay date fall 2001)
4. Further Reading
5. Copyright