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New York Times critic Michiko Kakatuni, well known for her rather biting reviews, changed her tune when it came to Adam Johnson's debut collection of short stories, Emporium: His stories, she wrote, occur "in a world located somewhere between Kurt Vonnegut's sci-fi empire and that wild and crazy land of weirdos limned in T. Coraghessan Boyle's stories."
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Fact File
| Name:
Adam Johnson
Current Home:
San Francisco, California
Date of Birth:
July 12, 1967
Place of Birth:
South Dakota
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B.A., Arizona State University, 1992; M.A., M.F.A., McNeese State University, 1996; Ph.D., Florida State, 2001
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Johnson's Buzz Book
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| | Parasites Like Us
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Adam Johnson
From our Editors: "What at first seems to be a lighthearted send-up of academia, gluttonous consumerism, American pop culture, and the globalization of everything under the sun suddenly and surprisingly becomes -- in its very last pages -- a darkly visionary tale of apocalypse. Adam Johnson's previously published short stories earned him comparisons to Vonnegut and Salinger. This incredibly powerful, timely, and all-too-believable first novel cements that reputation."
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Advice for Those Aspiring...
| In our exclusive interview with Johnson, he offers the following advice for aspiring writers: "Find a mentor. Writers, in my opinion, seem to be a generous lot. They have a lot to teach and share if you’re willing to seek them out. Be humble, think of writing as a lifelong process of learning, and your audience will come."
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An Author's Inspiration
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Paul Theroux
Johnson recalled that reading Paul Theroux's The Mosquito Coast at 15 had a big impact on him as a writer. "I shared the narrator’s awe and fear for an inventive, iconoclastic, and self-destructive father, he explains. "The 'well-meaning but deluded believer' is a repeating character of mine."
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| | Postcards
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Annie Proulx
"Her hauntingly beautiful depiction of a ruined life makes even a cautionary tale look alluring," observes Johnson about Annie Proulx's Postcards, one of his all-time favorite books. Read our interview with Johnson to learn more about his favorite writers and reads, including:
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