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Dennis Cooper

Possibly my favorite author. Any other fans on DL? What are your favorite books? Mine would be Try and Frisk.

by Anonymousreply 40February 2, 2022 2:44 AM

No. We're friends and I don't even like his work.

by Anonymousreply 1February 8, 2011 5:36 AM

is it a bad sign that i can't get through his "novels" without laughing hysterically? they're _that_ bad

by Anonymousreply 2February 8, 2011 6:19 AM

Try reading his "poetry" - it's even worse than his novels.

by Anonymousreply 3February 8, 2011 11:29 AM

His website....what has he against punctuation? It's like one of those unreadable experimental novels of the 70s. But the volume of it is extraordinary. How he finds time for a life I don't know. The posts he does of S&M gay teenagers are extraordinary and depressing in equal measure. People who find human squalor attractive aren't really my thing. To his credit he champions writers like Duvert that the gay lit community have rejected.

by Anonymousreply 4February 8, 2011 11:40 AM

bump

by Anonymousreply 5February 9, 2011 4:28 AM

Lest we forget, he fell hook, line and sinker for Laura Crazebot "JT Leroy."

by Anonymousreply 6February 9, 2011 4:41 AM

I read "My Loose Thread" after reading an essay by Zadie Smith, in which she mentioned the book admiringly. (Apparently, she also put it on her syllabus for a class she taught at Columbia.) But I don't think I understood it. He's obviously a very extreme writer, and I do think he has an interesting, almost hallucinatory prose style, but I found the novel pretty ugly and nihilistic.

He sounds like a character, though. Apparently, he made a cameo appearance in a recent French arthouse flick that starred some porn actor. (Sorry, the name escapes me.)

by Anonymousreply 7February 9, 2011 5:07 AM

God jr was kind of weird. Same with the Sluts.

by Anonymousreply 8February 10, 2011 4:49 AM

bump

by Anonymousreply 9February 10, 2011 3:18 PM

Hack, Hack, Hack. He took one very obvious, "shocking" idea and wrote a slew of mediocre books about it. They were only "shocking" to mid-western breeders and bourgeois literary critics.

by Anonymousreply 10February 11, 2011 10:10 PM

I thought he was the deepest thing ever when I read Frisk during high school. I tried reading a couple other things with names I don't remember (maybe Closer?) and wasn't nearly as impressed.

by Anonymousreply 11February 11, 2011 10:34 PM

[quote] He took one very obvious, "shocking" idea

What idea was that?

by Anonymousreply 12February 12, 2011 9:54 AM

He was obsessed with Vincent Kartheiser of Mad Men for a long time. Very open about it, posting pictures of porn star that looked like him in his blog.

by Anonymousreply 13February 12, 2011 10:37 AM

Is he a trustafarian? I can't imagine him surviving only royalties.

by Anonymousreply 14March 28, 2011 12:41 PM

I agree with R10 his novels and fictional stories are pretty much ALL the same some twinks get snuffed by very rich men, or men in power. *YAWN*

Yes he is a Trustafarian R14 as he's admitted this.

I have read his poetry and yeah it's pretty bad too.

by Anonymousreply 15June 27, 2013 4:31 PM

One of the worst writers working in English today. Globally, he's in the top 10% worst writers working in ANY language. Sweden recently fired a school superintendent who supported having his work added to the required reading of their equivalent of an eighth grade class. It was judged that the superintendent obviously didn't respect the students, teachers or parents.

Further, after his publisher donated a glut of his unsold books to developing nations, the UN has suggested that residents of these nations use his books as tinder rather than reading them--even if they were the only reading material available for English-language education.

Finally, he's virulently homophobic and sexist, and a staunch opponent of immigrant rights, reproductive rights, gay marriage and traditional medicine (he believes fruit juice can cure cancer).

by Anonymousreply 16June 27, 2013 4:51 PM

How is he homophobic R16? I know he's a chickenhawk/ped0 and a scat queen but none of that's a secret.

by Anonymousreply 17July 11, 2013 6:37 PM

He owes his entire career to the photographer who let him use his images as book covers, Robert Flynt.

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by Anonymousreply 18July 11, 2013 6:41 PM

Details R16?

by Anonymousreply 19March 18, 2015 3:22 AM

When he wrote about Henry in Frisk, he said he was thinking of Keanu Reeves.

by Anonymousreply 20March 18, 2015 3:25 AM

I liked Horror Hospital Unplugged.

by Anonymousreply 21March 18, 2015 3:25 AM

William S. Burroughs, admired his writing.

by Anonymousreply 22March 18, 2015 3:26 AM

Did his Russian boyfriend do him dirty? I think he was Russian...

by Anonymousreply 23March 18, 2015 3:27 AM

Richard Price recommended, Try.

by Anonymousreply 24March 18, 2015 3:29 AM

I'd imagine so R23 considering how Cooper is into scat. Is he still with the twink?

by Anonymousreply 25March 18, 2015 3:30 AM

R16, is a total bullshitter.

by Anonymousreply 26March 18, 2015 3:30 AM

How do you know he's into scat?

by Anonymousreply 27March 18, 2015 3:57 AM

Ever read his books R27?

by Anonymousreply 28March 18, 2015 7:18 AM

[quote] Yes he is a Trustafarian [R14] as he's admitted this.

Thought so. Where's the family money from?

What would we do without trustafarians? (Remember, it was Scott O'Hara who funded Steam magazine which covered gay saunas – essential reading!)

But there are so many crap ones out there who think they're artists.

by Anonymousreply 29March 18, 2015 7:28 AM

What, he's not gay?

by Anonymousreply 30March 18, 2015 7:40 AM

Yes, I've read a few of his books.

by Anonymousreply 31March 18, 2015 8:53 PM

I read a few of his novels but they are pretty much all the same with underage bisexual and gay twinks being sexually abused, rimmed, killed, and other disgusting things like people eating shit. He likes to think he's akin to De Sade but he's just a rich kid/trustafarian who self published a lot of poorly written novels and poems.

ABBA BY DENNIS COOPER for Brad Gooch

We snort all our coke on the way to the party. We bring the new album. We dance while we listen.

The band is two women whose husbands control them. They do not speak our language. Each syllable’s an obstacle.

They are in love with a man. He is in love with another. But they’re in no hurry. They could wait forever.

And when they are out on the make for a lover, they’ll always find him. They are the tigers.

We are stoned too stoned to. We dance till we’re tired and listen to lyrics we mouth like a language.

What we feel, when we hear them, is inexpressible. We can’t put into words. Maybe our dances show it.

ABBA lives for their music. We long for each other. They see what we’re doing. They put it on record.

They play it, we listen. We are absolutely stunned. We feel, and they know more than anyone can say.

Dennis Cooper, "ABBA" from The Dream Police: Selected Poems 1969-1993, published by Grove Press. Copyright © 1995 by Dennis Cooper. Reprinted by permission of Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc. Source: The Dream Police: Selected Poems 1969-1993 (Grove/Atlantic Inc., 1995)

by Anonymousreply 32May 1, 2018 8:54 PM

Not only did Cooper fall for JT Leroy/Laura Albert's schtick hook, line and sinker, he also completely plagiarized filmmaker Jim Tushinski's long blog essays about an obscure filmmaker.

"Dennis Cooper barely admitted to completely plagiarizing filmmaker Jim Tushinski's essay before he removed it. Cooper is sad; a very creepy and stupid thing to do."

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by Anonymousreply 33May 1, 2018 11:31 PM

That's funny, and yet not surprising at all R33. Cooper is disgusting and he's a pedo/hebephile. I remember he obsessed over Russian twinks in some stupid essay to try to remain current.

by Anonymousreply 34May 2, 2018 1:00 AM

I loved THE SLUTS. It reminds me of datalounge but with bisexual and gay hustler twinks, and BDSM.

by Anonymousreply 35March 5, 2021 6:20 PM

Any other fans here?

by Anonymousreply 36March 30, 2021 8:31 AM

The excerpt at r32 reads well. It’s been ages since I read Frisk.

by Anonymousreply 37March 30, 2021 9:23 AM

His blog is interesting especially his interviews and film analyses.

by Anonymousreply 38February 2, 2022 2:33 AM

I sort of like Shakespeare, Austen, Joyce and Wallace Stevens, but I don't know them because they're all dead.

by Anonymousreply 39February 2, 2022 2:36 AM

I like his blog. It goes into deep, weird places in the pop culture firmament. His books are terrible though.

by Anonymousreply 40February 2, 2022 2:44 AM
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