The Dark Secrets of the Writer Behind ‘Train Dreams’

“Do you think that the bad things that we do follow us through life?”

That’s the question Robert Grainier asks Arn Peeples one night while lying back in a tent in “Train Dreams,” Clint Bentley’s new film adaptation of Denis Johnson’s masterful 2011 novella. They are loggers at rest, sleeping in the old-growth forest they’ve been hired to cut down. Light from a kerosene lamp flickers across their weathered faces. Neither has an answer.

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