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A Reading by Denis Johnson

Reading by Denis Johnson - April 21, 2016

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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.

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Denis Johnson

Denis Johnson, fiction writer

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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.

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Fiction

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux