Denise Cooper, Author, Dennis Cooper, Author Grove Press $12 (176p) ISBN 978-0-8021-3367-0
Cooper's first collection of stories fashions a sadistic, drugged-out and sexually charged counterculture in his characteristically cold and intense prose style. (Dec.)
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Dennis Cooper, Author . Canongate $18 (128p) ISBN 978-1-84195-274-1
Cooper's latest, after a loosely intertwined series of novels ending with Period, stays firmly rooted in the same bleak, volatile landscape as his past works involving neglected, gay teenaged boys. Perpetually distraught teenager Larry, whose...
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Dennis Cooper, Author . Grove/Atlantic/Black Cat $12 (176p) ISBN 978-0-8021-7011-8
Try making up a world where having killed someone you love isn't important." Cooper (Closer
, etc.) does just that—and it works, for a while. Pot-smoking, 40-something L.A. depressive Jim rammed his Lexus into a telephone pole, sending
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Dennis Cooper, Author . Carroll & Graf $14.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1674-6
A return to form—in the sense of incorporating frank depictions of sexualized violence—Cooper's latest follows on the heels of God Jr.
(Reviews, May 16), which tells the story of a marriage's disintegration in the wake of an...
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Dennis Cooper, Author . Harper Perennial $13.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-171544-0
The cult novelist's collection of short stories plumbs veins of dark humor amid the sex and gore his fans have come to expect. The contents range from short shorts—a rumination on “The Fifteen Worst Russian Gay Porn Web Sites”
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Dennis Cooper, Author Grove Press $12 (144p) ISBN 978-0-8021-3289-5
Homoeroticism, brutality and psychosis are explored in this unnervingly lucid account of a man whose fascination with snuff photos and murder leads to a killing spree in Holland. (Mar.)
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Dennis Cooper, Author Grove Press $15.95 (131p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1093-0
In chapters titled with the names of the characters on whom they focus, this brief novel links together a small, bleakly debauched cast of gay men. Dedicated to sex and violence for the catharsis these acts would seem to promise, the men settle into
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Dennis Cooper, Author Grove/Atlantic $18.95 (165p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1401-3
A first short-story collection by novelist-poet Cooper ( Frisk ; The Tenderness of Wolves ), this book is relentlessly unpleasant if skillfully written. Cooper's obsessions--serial killers, drugged-out male hustlers, abusive gay relationships--run...
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Dennis Cooper, Author Grove/Atlantic $17.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1399-3
Cooper has produced edgy works of fiction ( Safe ; Closer ), but this novel is his most disturbing. The narrator of this study in brutal sexuality and psychosis is an emotionally detached, intelligent man named Dennis. Cooper traces key episodes in...
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Dennis Cooper, Author Grove/Atlantic $20 (199p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1542-3
Cooper's disturbing new novel, like Frisk and Closer , explores the gritty, homoerotic subculture of a nondescript California suburb while chronicling two days in the life of Ziggy, the adolescent, adopted son of two sexually abusive gay fathers....
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Dennis Cooper, Author Grove/Atlantic $22 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1608-6
At their best, Cooper's works (Try; Closer) explore sex as a simultaneous embrace of and flight from death. Populated by drugged-out adolescent boys living in anomic L.A., Cooper's books balance their lurid subject matter with affectless, economic...
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Dennis Cooper, Author Grove/Atlantic $21 (144p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1656-7
Cooper's fans will not be surprised, but the uninitiated may balk at his new novel's macabre world of disaffected young men engaging in Satanic sacrifice, gang rape, cutting-edge pornography and nonchalant mutilation and murder. Undaunted readers...
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Keith Mayerson, Author, Dennis Cooper, Author, Keith Mayerson, Illustrator Juno Books $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-9651042-1-0
Beautifully adapted into comics form from a Cooper short story, Horror Hospital Unplugged chronicles the sudden rise to the precipice of fame (and the equally abrupt fall) of a young L.A. rock band and the funny, profane and touching sexual journey...
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Dennis Cooper. Soho, $25 (144p) ISBN 978-1-64129-304-4
In Cooper’s surreal and elegiac conclusion to the George Miles Cycle (after Period), a writer named Dennis Cooper continues to recount his obsessive love for a friend from adolescence. Cooper declares a mission to convey a sense of George to those...
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