Poets & Writers Theater
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Denis Johnson reads a selection of short stories to a captive audience as part of the Spring 2016 Barbara and David Zalaznick Creative Writing Reading Series at Cornell University. Johnson died at the age of sixty-seven on May 25, 2017.
Tags: Fiction | Denis Johnson | reading | short story | 2016 | Cornell University | in memoriam -
Appearing at Cornell University in 2009, the author reads from "The Starlight on Idaho," a short story originally published in Playboy in 2007. Johnson's latest novel, Train Dreams (FSG), was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.
Tags: Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2011 | Denis Johnson | Cornell University | Train Dreams | Fiction
