S1E1 | Times of Cloud (with Eileen Myles, Wallace Shawn, Maya Angelou, Sadie Stein)
The Paris Review
The Importance of Sleeping
Dennis Johnson's short story is about a man who dies in the rain. He says he was given drugs by three different people, all of whom gave him pills. The salesman shared his liquor and steered while sleeping with an Indian passenger. A VW captained by a college student filled with hashish fumes also died that day.
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