- ^ Zambrano 2018: "Jesus' Son, the book with which Johnson is most often identified."
- ^ Giraldi 2018: "Jesus' Son — the most iconic story collection of the American 1990s…"
- ^ Smith 2000: "...Jesus' Son, Johnson's beloved short story collection…"
- ^ English 2019: "...his best known story collection [is] Jesus' Son (1992)."
- ^ "Jesus' Son: Stories". Publishers Weekly. November 30, 1992. Retrieved October 24, 2022.
- ^ Jollimore 2018: "Jesus' Son, which contains multiple interlocking stories of drug addicts and their associates… Like much of Johnson's work, the book displayed a deep fascination with the flamboyant desperation of society's rogues, people unable or unwilling to conform to contemporary America's overly narrow and spiritually hollow vision of the good life."
- ^ McManus, James (December 27, 1992). "Jesus' Son". The New York Times. Retrieved September 18, 2022.
- ^ Jollimore 2018
- ^ Lennon 2018: "Even more striking were the book's sudden swerves in diction, from the straightforward and unadorned to the wildly metaphorical and self-conscious."
- ^ Johnson, Denis. "Out on Bail". Jesus' Son., 1992. p.34. Print
- ^ Giraldi 2018: "Jesus' Son — the most iconic story collection of the American 1990s…"
- ^ Smith 2000: "...Jesus' Son, Johnson's beloved short story collection…"
- ^ Corbett 2018: "In the US Johnson is deified, and though he's fervently admired in [Great Britain], he's never been as big a deal here as over there…"
- ^ Zambrano 2018
- ^ English 2019: "The work became popular among younger people at the time, for better or worse."
- ^ Lennon 2018
- ^ Lewis 2007
- ^ English 2019: ellipsis inserted for brevity, removed "now in an epidemic state."
- ^ Walsh 2000: "In the end, the worst feature of Johnson's approach is that it directs the attention of the reader or viewer toward finding the Beautiful, albeit grotesque and unlikely, in existing reality...[this] represents an accommodation with the world, not a protest."
- ^ McNamara, Nathan Scott (January 20, 2015). "Is Jesus' Son a Red Cavalry Rip-Off?". The Millions. Archived from the original on March 3, 2021. Retrieved October 24, 2022.
- ^ English 2019: "Interestingly, Johnson acknowledged a debt to Isaac Babel's Red Cavalry, the monumental book of short stories about the Russian Civil War (1918–1922), for Jesus' Son. Unfortunately, the two works can hardly be compared."
- ^ Feinstein, Howard (June 11, 2000). "Willing to Take a Walk in the Dark". The New York Times. Retrieved October 24, 2022.
- ^ Scott, A. O. (April 7, 2000). "FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW; Goofy and Strung Out But Charming All the Same". The New York Times. Retrieved October 24, 2022.
- ^ Sosnoski, Karen (September–October 2002). "When Literature Goes Hollywood". News and Trends. Poets & Writers Magazine. Vol. 30, no. 5. Retrieved October 24, 2022.
- ^ Adamczyk, Laura. "R.I.P. Denis Johnson, author of Jesus' Son and Tree of Smoke". The A.V. Club. Retrieved October 24, 2022.
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