Short Story: "Emergency" by Denis Hale Johnson

Let's read "Emergency" by Denis Hale Johnson (9 pages) and get together to discuss it. I just read it and I would recommend you buckle your seatbelts as you dive into it! This is my first time to read something by Denis Johnson. Bio below.

Here is the URL:
https://public.wsu.edu/~bryanfry/emergency_by_denis_johnson.pdf

Denis Hale Johnson (July 1, 1949 – May 24, 2017) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet. He is perhaps best known for his debut short story collection, Jesus' Son (1992). His most successful novel, Tree of Smoke (2007), won the National Book Award for Fiction.[2] Johnson was twice shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[3] Altogether, Johnson was the author of nine novels, one novella, two books of short stories, three collections of poetry, two collections of plays, and one book of reportage.[4] His final work, a book of short stories titled The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, was published posthumously in 2018.

He earned a B.A. in English (in 1971) from the University of Iowa and an M.F.A. (in 1974) from the Iowa Writers' Workshop,[6] where he also returned to teach.[5] While at the Writers' Workshop, Johnson took classes from Raymond Carver.[9]