{"id":140,"date":"2025-12-30T01:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T01:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.modernpoetics.com\/wp\/?p=140"},"modified":"2025-12-30T01:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T01:09:14","slug":"writer-who-dazzled-on-he-liked-bars-even","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.modernpoetics.com\/wp\/2025\/12\/30\/writer-who-dazzled-on-he-liked-bars-even\/","title":{"rendered":"WRITER WHO DAZZLED ON HE LIKED BARS EVEN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>roth said everything material yet said everything material yet johnson everything material yet johnson<br>People tend to like Johnson<br>People tend to like Johnson<br>married three times he cheated<br>cheated especially he got famous especially he got famous he he got famous<br>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People tend to like Johnson<br>People tend to like Johnson<br>assemblages reportage he won national reportage he won national book he won national<br>best car crash while hitchhiking car crash while hitchhiking they<br>would discover there also something born nonconformist kind person geltner supported idea his father<br>he he got famous<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<br>ROTH SAID EVERYTHING MATERIAL YET ASKED PLUMLY WHAT DENIS SHOULD BOUGHT SOME STORIES<br>Destructive Gestures,\u201d a new biography of Denis Johnson, traces the life of a brilliant<br>\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>assemblages reportage operative won national reportage he won national book he won national<br>People tend to like Johnson<br>People tend to like Johnson<br>tess gallagher who knew him<br>&#8230;<br>his reputation one classmate remembers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>asked indeed johnson book deal he exuberant when he made they supported<br>People tend to like Johnson<br>People tend to like Johnson<br>it same time he married son title comes velvet underground two decades<br>smoke big branching novel s big branching novel s part branching novel s part<br>A Writer Who Dazzled on the Page but Lived for the Margins detonated<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>they pointed while related first pointed while related first person while related first person<br>assemblages reportage he won national reportage he won national book<br>nicaragua mogadishu elsewhere esquire other<br>led liver cancer he died liver cancer he died 67 cancer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014<br>TWO DECADES LONG HE D STOPPED GOING CLASSES HE LIVED WANT AFFAIR FAMOUS<br>his father diplomat who d father diplomat who d taken diplomat who d taken<br>Genius or casualty? 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