Frank Kermode did a nice piece on Johnson in the London Review of Books. Johnson is one of those writers I've heard about off and on for years and seemed like somebody I should be interested in but never read. My local library only has copies of his last novel See the Old Lady Decently and The Evacuees, an anthology apparently of material by evacuated children. There's also a decent entry in the Literary Encyclopedia but none of them make such a case that I'll search out Johnson's books, not with stuff I still haven't read from Perec and most of the Fiction Collective.