Denis Johnson was applying for a job teaching fiction writing at Texas State University in San Marcos. "I Googled myself -- it's not as pleasurable as it sounds -- to review my qualifications," he ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

This may be the best tribute disc I have ever heard. Why, might you ask? Because we are fortunate to have performing on this disc, perhaps the last of the practicing bluesmen that actually knew Robert ...

Novelist, poet, screenwriter, and essayist Denis Johnson has developed a cultish following over the past two decades for his exacting portraits of malevolence, zealotry, lovelessness, addiction, and ...

Early in Rhoades’s rip-roaring, action-packed fifth Jack Keller novel (after 2015’s Devils and Dust), Jack, a Gulf War veteran who has PTSD, hears a commotion outside the Arizona bar where he works.

Blast these songs out your front door when the trick-or-treaters are going by and you’ll have the least popular house on the black — and plenty of candy left over on November 1. Robert Johnson, ...

three-act play by Denis Johnson, "Hellhound on My Trail" is a comedy about government malfeasance and religious treachery. The first act concerns a young woman about to be terminated from her job as a ...

Hampton Sides was just six years old in April of 1968. His father, a Memphis lawyer worked for the law firm that was representing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the striking Memphis sanitation ...

“I got to keep movin’I got to keep movin’Blues fallin’ down like hail (Blues fallin’ down like hail) And the days keeps on worryin’ me There’s a Hellhound on my trail (Hellhound on my trail)” —Robert ...

The last track on the second side of “The King of the Delta Blues Singers,” released by Columbia Records in 1961, was “Hellhound on My Trail.” The performance, a low moan of eternal damnation and ...

I’d like to applaud Justin Hayford for the praise he extends to Viaduct Theater’s production of Denis Johnson’s Hellhound on My Trail [September 27]. However, the cursory way he dismisses the third ...

Denis Johnson's "Hellhound on My Trail," at Theater Schmeater, races like a shoot down the Colorado rapids: invigorating, unnerving and brash. As Marigold, the responsible sister of the wild Cassandra ...