Denis Johnson

Graywolf Press is lone wolf in book publishing

The publisher is a thousand miles from NYC but remains one of the best

Junot Diaz

Real Life Rock Top 10

Pearl Jam goes on hunger strike, JFK buys you a spaghetti dinner, and Jeff Bridges asks Bob Dylan to swallow his pride

Real Life Rock Top Ten

Ben Harper summons god and Johnny Rotten proves he's still the antichrist

Roll Call

There's This Book You've Never Heard of

but if you had heard of it, you'd really enjoy reading it, which is why this unusual book review, Rain Taxi, continues to exist against what truly are the longest of odds

Crash

Denis Johnson's The Name of the World follows a widower back from the brink of dissolution

The Second Coming

Director Alison Maclean returns to the road with Jesus' Son

The Cruelty of Cool

Writer Sam Lipsyte chronicles the woeful half-life of the hipster

Mark Richard: Charity