interesting denis johnson related stuff

in my ongoing denis johnson obsession (oh hush...) I came across the following:

http://www.cultureport.com/cultureport/artists/messer/messer_johnson.html
interesting piece by denis johnson on Sam Messer

and here you can read an excerpt from the absolutely pull out your heart and stomp on it, "Already Dead"

http://www.pw.org/mag/wwr_alreadydead.htm

and Maude Newton writing about denis johnson, here [apparently, I'm not the only one with this particular obsession]
http://maudnewton.com/blog/index.php?p=3274

there's also a great list of free or semi-free events in NY on this blog that may be of interest to some of you...though saying that there's "nothing good scheduled" for 8/18 is just plain silly. John Irving's reading for FREE at barnes & noble on East17th street. Maybe he's not cool amongst the nyc literary cognescenti but he's a f**king great writer...so there. and back to the denis johnson obsession theme of this post, there's also mention of one ring zero's "as smart as they are: the author project" premiere at the pioneer theatre on Saturday the 20th...it's also at Anthology on September 14th which will probably be less full of annoyingly gag-inspiring hipsters of the ilk that make me wanna stay home with my remote & 400 channels...