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