Charting an American fringe populated with drug addicts, killers, members of obscure Christian sects, and muck-mouthed conspiracy mongers, Denis Johnson has developed a keen eye for the dropout as emotional wreck. True enough, some of his creations have taken up permanent residence in the realm of paranoia and the paranormal, the sort of people for whom brain control via satellite dish is a quotidian concern. But for all his underbelly-gazing and psychotic underpinnings, Johnson's best characters to date have had one foot planted in a slippery reality. They're anxious, shifty guys with spotty work records and not much... More >>>