Dennis Cooper

The brutally frank and daring gay classic from countercultural icon Dennis Cooper

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"I started writing books about and for my friend George Miles because whenever I would speak about him honestly like I am doing now I felt a complicated agony beneath my words that talking openly can't handle."For most of his life, Dennis Cooper believed the person he had loved the most and would always love above all others was George Miles. In his first novel in ten years, Dennis Cooper writes about George Miles, love, loss, addiction, suicide, and how fiction can capture these things, and how it fails to capture them. Candid and powerful, I Wished is a radical work of shifting forms. It includes appearances by Santa Claus, land artist James Turrell, sentient prairie dogs, John Wayne Gacy, Nick Drake, and George, the muse for Cooper's acclaimed novels Closer, Frisk, Try, Guide, and Period, collectively known as "The George Miles Cycle." In revisiting the inspiration for the Cycle, Dennis has written a masterwork: the most raw, personal, and haunted book of his career.

From literary cult hero Dennis Cooper comes his most haunting work to date."An American master.... Cooper is the most important transgressive literary artist since Burroughs." --SalonIn secret passageways, hidden rooms, and the troubled mind of our narrator, a mystery perpetually takes shape--and the most compelling clue to its final nature is "the marbled swarm" itself, a complex amalgam of language passed down from father to son.Cooper ensnares the reader in a world of appearances, where the trappings of high art, old money, and haute cuisine obscure an unspeakable system of coercion and surrender. And as the narrator stalks an elusive truth, traveling from the French countryside to Paris and back again, the reader will be seduced by a voice only Dennis Cooper could create.

"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 ChronicleFrom the internationally acclaimed author of Ugly Man and one of "the last literary outlaws in mainstream American fiction" (Bret Easton Ellis) comes a survey of his cultural criticism. From interviews with celebrities such as Leonard DiCaprio and Keanu Reeves; to obituaries for Kurt Cobain and River Phoenix; to writings on social issues--including the touchstone piece "AIDS: Words from the front"; Smothered in Hugs spans three decades of journalism from Dennis Cooper.

" A] brilliant, triumphantly lurid writer as well as a supremely talented, elegant stylist whose prose is smart and nervy. He might also be the last literary outlaw in mainstream American fiction." --Bret Easton EllisInternationally acclaimed writer Dennis Cooper continues to study the material he's always explored honestly, but does so now--in stories--with a sense of awareness and a satirical touch that exploits and winks at his mastery of this world. As it has done for decades, Cooper's taut, controlled prose lays bare the compulsions and troubling emptiness of the human soul.

A tale largely told through the postings, e-mails, and board conversations on a Web site where gay male escorts are reviewed by dozens of unreliable client narrators traces the evolution of one young escort's date with a satisfied client, an evening that burgeons into a metafiction of pornography, half-truths, and myths. Reprint.

A father who has just lost his son in a car accident in which he was injured becomes obsessed with discovering the true identity of the dead boy, a moody, mysterious teenager who repeatedly drew the same building in his notebook. Original.

Kluven (Frisk, 1991) är den andra delen av Dennis Coopers romankvintett som inleddes med Närmare. Läsaren följer de trasiga unga männen över ett fält som exploderar av extremt våld, söndertrasande begär och farlig fantasi. Vad är påhitt och vad är verklighet? Cooper skriver som en gud och drar sig inte för att skildra det mest ohyggliga med en sublim skönhet som det är omöjligt att värja sig emot.

Närmare utspelar sig i en grupp manliga studenter i USA. I romanens centrum finner vi George, som är romanens olycklige och egendomligt passive huvudperson. Han lever tillsammans med sin far och sin cancersjuka mor. För det mesta ligger George uppe på sitt rum bland sina Disneylandsouvenirer och sörjer sin döende mor. Apatisk och mer eller mindre ständigt drogad låter han alla projicera vad de vill på honom, han låter sig bli föremålet för allas drömmar, ett tomt skal vem som helst kan fylla med vilka fantasier som helst. Det är genom alla de män som är förälskade i George, attraherade av George, besatta av George som romanen tar form. Genom flera olika berättare vävs de olika rösterna kapitel för kapitel samman till en suggestiv berättelse om sorg, leda och begär. Karaktärerna i Dennis Coopers romaner är besatta av kroppar och ytor och av vad som döljer sig bakom kropparnas skal. Utan att värja för det brutala eller det äckliga utforskar Cooper med sin lyriska prosa besattheten och dess konsekvenser. Närmare (Closer, 1990) är den första boken i en romankvintett. Den har, liksom alla hans böcker, rönt stor uppmärksamhet i hans hemland, och har blivit översatt till ett tjugotal språk.

Set in a spare, smoke-and-mirror-filled world of secret Web sites, Goth bands, Satanism, pornography, and outsider art, "Period" is a literary disappearing act as mysterious as it is logical. The culmination of Cooper's explorations into sex and death, youth culture, and the search for the ineffable object of desire, "Period" is a breathtaking, mesmerizing final statement to the five-book cycle it completes.

Explores the psyches of four young gay men who are trying to alter their existance with drugs, violent erotic experiences, and love

A critically acclaimed poet offers a collection of the best poems from his previous books along with a selection of new works, from erotic verse to "post-punk" poems to experimental pieces exploring the risks and joys of gay relationships. Original.

Ziggy, the adopted teenaged son of two sexually abusive fathers, turns to his uncle, who sells pornographic videos, and his best friend, a junkie, in a complex tale of sexuality, abuse, and attraction

A collection of short stories that use death to probe the meaning of life introduces a man who abducts, molests, and murders young boys; a trip to Amsterdam; and a teenage rock band called Horror Hospital