Book Club: Jesus' Son, "Car-Crash While Hitchhiking"

My first question with “Car-Crash While Hitchhiking” is to wonder why there’s that hyphen in the title, which is not what you’d call standard usage. If the point is to put the reader a bit on the back foot, for me, it’s worked.

The lead story in Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son is famously a true one, as explored in the New Yorker piece I shared last week. Joh…