Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond

Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond

First edition
Author	Denis Johnson
Language	English
Publisher	HarperCollins
Publication date	April 24, 2001
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print
Pages	238
ISBN	0-06-018736-0

Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond is a 2001 collection of essays by Denis Johnson. The book chronicles the author's travels through Africa, Afghanistan, and America. Spanning two decades, his essays are generally sympathetic towards the obscure groups of people he encounters in his travels. The essays were previously published elsewhere, including in Esquire and The Paris Review. Seek is Johnson's first nonfiction collection.^[1][2]

Contents

• "The Civil War in Hell"
• "Hippies"
• "Down Hard Six Times"
• "Bikers for Jesus"
• "Three Deserts"
• "The Militia in Me"
• "Run, Rudolph, Run"
• "The Lowest Bar in Montana"
• "An Anarchist's Guide to Somalia"
• "Jungle Bells, Jungle Bells"
• "The Small Boys' Unit"

References

1. Ted Conover, "Guided Tours of Hell," New York Times, June 17, 2001.
2. Xan Brooks, "Seek: Reports from the Edges of America and Beyond, by Denis Johnson," The Guardian, July 10, 2003.

Original publications

• "The Civil War in Hell". Esquire. 1990-12-01. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
• "The Militia in Me". Esquire. 1995-07-01. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
• "Change your life FOREVER: God's Warriors in the Third Millennium". Salon. 1996-03-22. Archived from the original on 2000-08-24. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
• "Hippies". Paris Review. 2000-06-01. Archived from the original on 2017-07-22. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
• "The small boys' unit". Harpers. 2000-10-01. Retrieved 2017-07-22.