Tapestry | Adam Johnson

Adam Johnson

Interesting Facts

Featured in Harper's

Interesting fact: Toucan cereal bedspread to my plunge and deliver


The Half-Seen Things: An Interview with Adam Johson

Featured in Tin House

Johnson’s characters are all, in their own way, seeking something like exoneration—from themselves


Cliff Gods of Acapulco

Featured in Esquire

My father is dying in Zaire, though I don't necessarily know that yet as I drive to Vegas with Jimbo.


Water Tables

Featured in The Missouri Review

“Get me a witness,” he yells from downstairs.


Teen Sniper

Featured in Harper's

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Trauma Plate

Featured in The Barcelona Review

The Body Armor Emporium opened down the street a few months back, and I tell you, it's killing mom-and-pop bullet-proof vest rental shops like ours.


Nirvana

Featured in The Sunday Times

Here we publish his winning tale of love, technology and personal tragedy.


Nirvana

Featured in The Sunday Times

Here we publish his winning tale of love, technology and personal tragedy.


Dear Leader Dreams of Sushi

Featured in GQ

North Korea is a mythically strange land, an Absurdistan, where almost nothing is known about the people or, more important, their missile-launching leaders.


The Third Mate

Featured in Granta

Jun Do was down in the Junma’s aft hold, a steel room big enough for a table, chair, typewriter and a stack of receivers.


Scavengers

Featured in Granta

I was in Pyongyang’s Department Store Number One when I saw a bottle of rice wine emblazoned with the bust of famed Japanese pro wrestler Rikidōzan


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