NYC — Al Jacobs, 30, is an NYC-based writer from Toledo, Ohio. He read the copy of Jesus' Son (1992) I lent him over the past few months. I reread the Picador Modern Classics pocket version i copped after lending him my old version over the same period.

Jesus' Son (1992) is a series of interconnected short stories narrated by a guy, "Fuckhead," and follows several recurring characters, all addicts, who engage in drug use, petty crime, and murder. Denis Johnson (1949–2017) published Jesus' Son at the age of 43.

CONTENTS

5m pod start

8m the infantilized artist boi dream / baby stuff

10m my sus “The Other Man” take

13m you gotta be OUT HERE

15m when they do that lowkey B & E

16m on “autofiction”

21m writing about work/survival/out-here-ness

24m Edmund Wilson v. Nabokov beef as Meek v. Drake beef I’m on Wilson-Meek’s side bro

On male isolation/coal miners

26m having empathy for mfkrs more important than everything

31m mommy stuff

33m Jesus God’s son who Jesus’s son tho??

34m idc abt ur art unless self-snitch in it

36m Sam Pink bizarro absurdism

40m writing abt the outcasts the fuckups the deformed

42m should characters be redeemed

43m dwell in the ambiguity bro

1h 7m Japanese love poems

1h 20m pod end

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