Jesus' Son: Stories Denis Johnson
Publisher: Harper Perennial

Jesus' Son is a visionary chronicle of dreamers, addicts, and lost souls. As you know, the story is just a couple of pages of dialogue, almost completely free of the other elements of scene. He sits down and for 70 minutes tells a story about his own life. So this guy walks into a dark room. I was describing the story "Emergency" to my girlfriend one day and she said, "That sounds a lot like this movie I saw with Jack Black and Billy Cruddup. I was recently listening to an old episode of The New Yorker's excellent Fiction podcast a few weeks ago on which Tobias Wolffe read Denis Johnson's story Emergency from the collection Jesus' Son. He connects his story to larger universal stories and illustrates these stories with hundreds of edited film clips and projected Integrating hundreds of film clips and photographic images into a theatrical celebration of the Cinematic Savior, it's the tale of two epic heroes on a search for transcendence: Jesus, the Son of God -- Mike, the son of a TV writer. I believe that alot of this series was written in a way that some people can understand it better. I actually had know idea there was ever a movie made for Jesus' Son. My first contact with Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son was reading “Steady Hands” when it came out in Esquire.