The Marbled Swarm(1st Edition) by DennisCooper Paperback, 194 Pages, Published 2011 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-06-171563-1, ISBN: 0-06-171563-8
"Literary cult hero Dennis Cooper delivers his highlyanticipated new novel. Written in a voice that is lush and intricate, TheMarbled Swarm is Dennis Cooper's most accomplished (and most beguiling)work to date. Cooper tells the story of a man who secretly influences his sonto commit a grisly act. Justin Taylor, author of The Gospel of Anarchy, calls The Marbled Swarm "a mindbendingmasterpiece . . . vivid, slippery, ferocious, and rich wi ..."
The Dream Police Selected Poems, 1969-1993 by DennisCooper Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 1996 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-3457-8, ISBN: 0-8021-3457-2
"With each new novel, Dennis Cooper's reputation as the most daring and distinctive writer working in America today is cemented. To anyone familiar with this writer -- whom the New York Times calls "taut, chillingly ironic," the Washington Post Book World terms "brilliant," and the Village Voice deems capable of "religious intensity" -- it will come as no surprise that before he achieved success as a novelist, Dennis Cooper was best know ..."
Smothered in Hugs(1st Edition) Essays, Interviews, Feedback, and Obituaries by DennisCooper Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2010 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-06-171561-7, ISBN: 0-06-171561-1
"“In another country or another era, Dennis Cooper’s books would be circulated in secret, explosive samizdat editions that friends and fans would pass around and savor like forbidden absinthe.” —New York Times Book Review “His work belongs to that of Poe, the Marquis de Sade, Charles Baudelaire, and Georges Bataille, other writers who argued with mortality.” — San Francisco Chronicle "There’s a stainless steel sheen to Cooper’s sentences ..."
Userlands(1st Edition) New Fiction Writers from the Blogging Underground (Little House on the Bowery) by DennisCooper, Katherine V. Forrest Paperback, 362 Pages, Published 2007 by Akashic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-933354-15-6, ISBN: 1-933354-15-1
"This anthology brings to light some of the new fiction writers who are using the Internet’s labyrinthine array of blogs and personal web pages to expose, test, and develop their work. They are gay, straight, young, old, and in some cases still searching for their identities.Written by Dennis Cooper"
"Kathy Acker pushed literary boundaries with a vigor and creative fire that made her one of America's preeminent experimental writers and her books cult classics. Now Amy Scholder and Dennis Cooper have distilled the incredible variety of Acker's body of work into a single volume that reads like a communique from the front lines of late-twentieth-century America. Acker was a literary pirate whose prodigious output drew promiscuously from ..."
"Dennis Cooper and Keith Mayerson's groundbreaking black comedy follows the misadventures of Trevor Machine - the twenty-something, sexually confused lead singer for L.A.'s Horror Hospital, an indie rock band on its way to fame and fortune - as he struggles with love, lust, drugs, fame, and carnally charged visits from the ghost of River Phoenix. A coming-out tale as well as a coming-of-age story, Horror Hospital Unplugged" is a heady di ..."
"The work of Tom Friedman (b.1965) captures for many the essence of art at the beginning of a new century. It is modest in scale, imaginative and ecological, painstakingly crafted and 'unheroic'. Friedman suggests a new direction in art: post video, post political/identity issues, post digital media, post ready-mades. Friedman works in a windowless studio (more like a playground-kitchen-laboratory) in rural Massachusetts, relentlessly in ..."
Closer by DennisCooper Paperback, Published 2023 by Profile Books Nov 2023 ISBN-13: 978-1-80081-289-5, ISBN: 1-80081-289-2
Guide(1st Edition) by DennisCooper Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 1997 by Grove Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-1608-6, ISBN: 0-8021-1608-6
"Guide is Dennis Cooper's fourth volume in an ambitious five novel cycle (which has also included Frisk, Wrong, Closer and Try). His previous novels have all attempted to articulate the difficulty that the (modern)writer has in constructing in language a narrative that elucidates language's own ever present tension between disclosure and evasion.Guide follows, in its hip, sassy, sexy way, this same theme. The textual problematic is playe ..."
My Loose Thread(1st Edition) by DennisCooper Hardcover, 121 Pages, Published 2002 by Canongate Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-84195-274-1, ISBN: 1-84195-274-5
"Larry, a teenager not only wrestling with his sexuality and the implications of a physical relationship with his younger brother but with the purpose and the reason to his existence, is numb. Dead. As the book opens, Larry has been paid $500 by a senior to kill a fellow pupil and retrieve the boy's notebook. It seems simple enough. However, once Larry ventures into the notebook, complications arise. Struck at once by both the beauty of ..."
"California-based artist Raymond Pettibon began making his signature ink-wash drawings framed or pinned directly on the wall, they are often combined by the dozens in no discernible order, like a giant scattered notebook. With solo exhibitions worldwide including a retrospective at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1994), Pettibon is considered one of the world's most significant innovators of figurative art. Poet and novelist ..."
Wrong Loth(1st Edition) by Dennis. Cooper Hardcover, 165 Pages, Published 1992 by Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-1401-3, ISBN: 0-8021-1401-6
"A collection of short stories that use death to probe the meaning in life introduces a man who abducts, molests, and murders young boys and a teenage rock band called Horror Hospital, among other grotesques."
Frisk by DennisCooper Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 1992 by Serpent's Tail ISBN-13: 978-1-85242-278-3, ISBN: 1-85242-278-5
"When Dennis is 13, he sees a series of photographs of a boy apparently unimaginably mutilated. He is not shocked, but stunned by their mystery and power; their glimpse at the reality of death. Some years later, Dennis meets the boy who posed for the photographs. He did it for love. In his work, Dennis Cooper explores the dividing line between the body and the spirit. His first book Frisk is a novel about the power of fantasy and fai ..."
Crystals, X-rays and Proteins(1st Edition) Comprehensive Protein Crystallography by Dennis Sherwood, Jon Cooper Hardcover, 656 Pages, Published 2010 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-955904-6, ISBN: 0-19-955904-X
Godlike(1st Edition) by Richard Hell, DennisCooper Paperback, 150 Pages, Published 2005 by Akashic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-888451-77-1, ISBN: 1-888451-77-7
"[Hell’s] every move and word reveal a naked, impassioned intelligence in the throes of the only truly rock and roll artistic convulsion.”Lester BangsGodlike, Hell's second novel, is a stunning achievement, and quite likely his most important work in any medium to date. Combining the grit, wit, and invention of Go Now with the charged lyricism and emotional implosiveness of his groundbreaking music, Godlike is brillant in form as well ..."
Wide Eyed(1st Edition) (Little House on the Bowery) by Trinie Dalton, DennisCooper Paperback, 170 Pages, Published 2005 by Akashic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-888451-86-3, ISBN: 1-888451-86-6
"Trinie Dalton’s voice is so charming in these stories and they fly right by, so it takes a little time to realize how deftly she is talking about death and sex and fear and love and fur and slumber parties, how lightly she touches upon heaviness, making an imprint so gentle you don’t know it’s there until later, when the story floats back up in your memory, light as a butterfly or a blood-oil lilypad in the bath.” Aimee BenderTrinie ..."
Headless(1st Edition) (Little House on the Bowery) by Benjamin Weissman, DennisCooper Paperback, 140 Pages, Published 2004 by Akashic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-888451-49-8, ISBN: 1-888451-49-1
""Headless is fearless, fun, and sometimes filthy . . . an alphabet soup of -delight in language. Eat up."Alice Sebold"Brilliant. Wildly inventive, profane, and hilarious."Bret Easton EllisThe author of the acclaimed cult classic Dear Dead Person ("refreshing, nauseating, hilarious"Kirkus) returns with this long-awaited collection of brilliantly written and outrageously imaginative short stories.Benjamin Weissman is the author of Dear ..."
"The Fall of Heartless Horse is a postmodern multigenerational family drama that is dark, hilarious, moving and wildly original. By turns lyric, comic, tragic and absurd, it deals with greed, inheritance, heroism, internecine intrigue, capitalism, sex, and the intertwining of public and private history.Martha Kinney has won the following literary awards: Menn Prize for Fiction, Olin Poetry Award, Elizabeth Jones Writing Scholarship, and ..."
Try(Reprint) by DennisCooper Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 1995 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-3338-0, ISBN: 0-8021-3338-X
"Simultaneously deadpan and queasily raw, Try is the story of Ziggy, the adopted teenaged son of two sexually abusive fathers whose failed experiment at nuclear-family domesticity has left him stranded with one and increasingly present in the fantasies of the other. He turns from both of these men to his uncle, who sells pornographic videos on the black market, and to his best friend, a junkie whose own vulnerability inspires in Ziggy a ..."
The Sluts(Reprint) by DennisCooper Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2005 by Da Capo Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7867-1674-6, ISBN: 0-7867-1674-6
""Cooper deserves reassessment . . . this compelling page-turner ought to remind adventurous readers that important transgressive literature needn't be something only the French and the occasional perverted American can get behind."-LA Weekly Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and told through the postings, emails, and conversations of several dozen unreliable narrators, The Sluts ..."