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Twenty-five years after his seminal Jesus' Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on aging, mortality, and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson "A true American artist . . . a revelator for this still new century." - The New York Times Book Review "The most essential writer of his generation." - Los Angeles Times "America's most incandescent novelist." - Slate "The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humor like Denis Johnson's." - Jonathan Franzen "Prose of amazing power and stylishness." - Philip Roth "When Denis Johnson is justly praised for his voice, I always think, just the one? He has an eerie symphony at his command." - Karen Russell "Infinite fannage." - George Saunders "Great prose, truly great." - David Foster Wallace "Denis Johnson is an exquisite writer." - Mary Gaitskill "His lonely spaces and stunned lives have a hair-trigger fascination that is American to the core." - Don DeLillo "He's not afraid to risk going straight toward the sublime." - Jenny Offill