This is one of my favorite books of all time. It’s one of those books that when I read it, I was blown away by it, told everyone about it, bought copies of it for gifts, and made everyone talk about it. I haven’t read it in a decade and it’s more and more clearly a younger reader’s book — the very quote I took for the header of this post suggests this. There’s a kind of void and fear of being young and being […]
He was in his fifties. He’d wasted his entire life. Such people were very dear to those of us who’d wasted only a few years.
Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson
