This evening, author SCOTT SPENCER will join authors all over the country who will read from Johnson's work in tribute to the late master of prose. Spencer will read personally selected excerpts THE LARGESSE OF THE SEA MAIDEN and also talk about his own deep respect for, and personal relationship with, Johnson's work.
Denis Johnson, National Book Award winner for Tree of Smoke and the author behind the seminal collection Jesus' Son, died in May of 2017 at the age of 67. A protean stylist who made a career of defying readers' expectations.