Their veins were flooded when possible with the relief of heroin; our veins with the pleasures of Johnson’s resonant voice. “Tell me I’m fine.”Photo“The Largesse of the Sea Maiden” picks up, to a large extent, where “Jesus’ Son” left off. Only a few characters recur, but these are essentially the same unlucky bipeds, sometimes glimpsed a few decades later. Advertisement Continue reading the main story“Just to catch you up,” one writes an old girlfriend from jail. Its narrator, Kevin, is an academic who has fits and outbursts in class — “conniptions,” in his words.

Source: New York Times January 15, 2018 18:11 UTC