A random, well-timed twitter search tonight turned up a pleasant surprise: Nobody Move, a new novel from Denis Johnson. The links stacked up nicely with reviews in The Washington Post, SFGate and The Daily Beast and one worth reading:

The Way of the Gun: NYT Sunday Book Review

Johnson is one of the last of the hard-core American realist writers, working — in his own way — along a line that might be charted from Melville and Stephen Crane, with a detour through Flannery O’Connor and Don DeLillo. He routinely explores the nature of crime — all his novels have it in one form or an­other — in relation to the nature of grace (yes, grace) and the wider historical and cosmic order.

The Book Design Review gives you a peek under the dust jacket. I also turned up a Lannan Foundation reading and conversation with Johnson from a couple of years ago and an upcoming Summer Writers’ Conference at USC featuring the man himself on Saturday, June 27, 2009. It looks like you can go to the reading without having to suffer through the whole conference.