John and Andy welcome authors Chris Power and Erica Wagner to the Backlisted podcast to discuss the multiple interlocking stories in Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson, including the phantasmagoric 'Car Crash While Hitchhiking'. In addition Andy has been reading Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke and John takes a look at Fen by Daisy Johnson.

Books mentioned:

Chris Power - Mothers
Erica Wagner - Chief Engineer - The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge; First Light - A Celebration of Alan Garner
David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
Peter Carey - Oscar and Lucinda
Charles Palliser - The Quincunx : The Inheritance of John Huffam
Lindsay Clarke - The Chymical Wedding
Denis Johnson - Tree of Smoke; Train Dreams; The Largesse of the Sea Maiden; The Stars at Noon; Angels; Resuscitation of a Hanged Man
Julian Barnes - The Only Story

Other Links:

The Fall - the unutterable
The Man in the High Castle (TV)
The Dectectorists
'Heroin' - The Velvet Underground
'Homeless and High' in the New Yorker (Denis Johnson)
Denis Johnson lecture at Cornell 2016
Adam Foulds in FT [paywall] on Denis Johnson