NYC — Al Jacobs, 30, is an NYC-based writer from Toledo, Ohio. He read the copy of Jesus' Son (1992) I lent him over the past few months. I reread the Picador Modern Classics pocket version i copped after lending him my old version over the same period.
Jesus' Son (1992) is a series of interconnected short stories narrated by a guy, "Fuckhead," and follows several recurring characters, all addicts, who engage in drug use, petty crime, and murder. Denis Johnson (1949–2017) published Jesus' Son at the age of 43.
Jesus' Son (1992) is a series of interconnected short stories narrated by a guy, "Fuckhead," and follows several recurring characters, all addicts, who engage in drug use, petty crime, and murder. Denis Johnson (1949–2017) published Jesus' Son at the age of 43.
1 hr 20 min / Listen on iTunes
CONTENTS
5m pod start
8m the infantilized artist boi dream / baby stuff
10m my sus “The Other Man” take
13m you gotta be OUT HERE
15m when they do that lowkey B & E
16m on “autofiction”
21m writing about work/survival/out-here-ness
24m Edmund Wilson v. Nabokov beef as Meek v. Drake beef I’m on Wilson-Meek’s side bro
On male isolation/coal miners
26m having empathy for mfkrs more important than everything
31m mommy stuff
33m Jesus God’s son who Jesus’s son tho??
34m idc abt ur art unless self-snitch in it
36m Sam Pink bizarro absurdism
40m writing abt the outcasts the fuckups the deformed
42m should characters be redeemed
43m dwell in the ambiguity bro
1h 7m Japanese love poems
1h 20m pod end
5m pod start
8m the infantilized artist boi dream / baby stuff
10m my sus “The Other Man” take
13m you gotta be OUT HERE
15m when they do that lowkey B & E
16m on “autofiction”
21m writing about work/survival/out-here-ness
24m Edmund Wilson v. Nabokov beef as Meek v. Drake beef I’m on Wilson-Meek’s side bro
On male isolation/coal miners
26m having empathy for mfkrs more important than everything
31m mommy stuff
33m Jesus God’s son who Jesus’s son tho??
34m idc abt ur art unless self-snitch in it
36m Sam Pink bizarro absurdism
40m writing abt the outcasts the fuckups the deformed
42m should characters be redeemed
43m dwell in the ambiguity bro
1h 7m Japanese love poems
1h 20m pod end
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