Drew Johnson

Fiction out there in @kenyonreview @Harpers @TLR_tweets @VQR @NERweb. Once, I was from Mississippi.

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

Hey there, all you folks. The @kenyonreview has my story "A Naked Horse" up as one small part of their jam-packed new issue. Mine's a wacky one, and I'm so glad to see it out in the wide world.

[Kenyon Review @kenyonreview]

Our Jan/Feb 2022 issue is available now! Featuring fiction by Lan Samantha Chang, @vanjchan, and @DrewalsoKermit; poetry by
@cawkward_rich, Cate Marvin, Maggie Millner, and Joan Wickersham; nonfiction by
@melissachadburn & more: https://t.co/o98QLEPkya

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

@aliner That's a great one. Have my Dad's LP.

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

@IneluctableQuak Did I say Diary? I meant Story.

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

@IneluctableQuak Then read his Diary of a Novel, one of the most quaint and pleasant of all books by an author about being an author.

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

@aliner (Also, that's a really good book.)

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

@aliner The lady from Dire Straits song!

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

@sm_osment That must be wild. Do you teach the Poe first?

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

Also Pym by Mat Johnson (hilarious and underknown). All of Lore Segal but especially Her First American and Lucinella. Barry Hannah and Nancy Lemann. Raymond Kennedy. But that we don’t talk more about I am Not Sidney Poitier? Is wild.

[Morow Jävis Kærdenax @IneluctableQuak]

USA novels that are funny:

- Fancy by Jeremy Davies
- I am Not Sidney Poitier by Everett
- Lightning Rods by DeWitt
- Magic Kingdom by Elkin
- Inherent Disorders & Organs of Sense by Adam Ehlrich Sachs
- A Naked Singularity by De La Pava
- A Questionable Shape by Sims

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

@oh_tuntun New Orleans.

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

@no_earthquake Like Galadriel, we’re diminishing, headed in only the one direction. Passing the test seems a bit in doubt, just maybe.

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

Like Galadriel, we’re diminishing, headed in only the one direction. Passing the test seems a bit in doubt?

[no earthquake (doesn't know maths) @no_earthquake]

americans refuse to explain to me why there is a midwest but no mideast

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

@TheLincoln Like Galadriel, we’re diminishing, headed in only the one direction. Passing the test seems a bit in doubt, just maybe.

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

@IneluctableQuak His most Lished novel, Ray, is largely comic and a blue streak of a book. Airships just got reissued, too.

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

@IneluctableQuak Reverse Bug is a pretty singular story. She told me she carried the idea around for years before she knew what to do with it. A lot of Barry’s biggest comic moment’s are asides, throwaways, and one liners but his best stories are (for me) hard to argue with.

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

@branwynne @Darinstrauss Just tossed Ride a Cockhorse out in a list of unmentioned hilarious books! Good Night, Jupiter is also a romp.

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

@IneluctableQuak Also Pym by Mat Johnson (hilarious and underknown). All of Lore Segal but especially Her First American and Lucinella. Barry Hannah and Nancy Lemann. Raymond Kennedy. But that we don’t talk about I am Not Sidney Poitier more? Is wild.

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

@WilliamHogeland Interesting. I found them hilarious.

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

@CitizenBego Franzen is an interesting dude. Very eclectic reading tastes (one of the biggest James Purdy fans out there, of long standing) and he tends to do the thing I wish we would all do: speak about books as though one wasn't a writer, just a really hardcore reader.

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

@BretVDB I wound up (somehow) with a copy of The Death of Captain Nemo by Robert Hillyer, a poet who led the charge against Pound, postwar. A fairly big deal, now forgotten. It's narrative and odd and I remember quite liking it. (I like Pound, too.) Maybe I'll reread...

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

@balumcarnes @EmmettStinson Gaddis, Gaddis, Gaddis.