Possibly my favorite author. Any other fans on DL? What are your favorite books? Mine would be Try and Frisk.
Dennis Cooper
by Anonymous | reply 40 | February 2, 2022 2:44 AM |
No. We're friends and I don't even like his work.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | February 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 Anonymous | reply 2 | February 8, 2011 6:19 AM |
Try reading his "poetry" - it's even worse than his novels.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | February 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 Anonymous | reply 4 | February 8, 2011 11:40 AM |
bump
by Anonymous | reply 5 | February 9, 2011 4:28 AM |
Lest we forget, he fell hook, line and sinker for Laura Crazebot "JT Leroy."
by Anonymous | reply 6 | February 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 Anonymous | reply 7 | February 9, 2011 5:07 AM |
God jr was kind of weird. Same with the Sluts.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | February 10, 2011 4:49 AM |
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by Anonymous | reply 9 | February 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 Anonymous | reply 10 | February 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 Anonymous | reply 11 | February 11, 2011 10:34 PM |
[quote] He took one very obvious, "shocking" idea
What idea was that?
by Anonymous | reply 12 | February 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 Anonymous | reply 13 | February 12, 2011 10:37 AM |
Is he a trustafarian? I can't imagine him surviving only royalties.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | March 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 Anonymous | reply 15 | June 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 Anonymous | reply 16 | June 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 Anonymous | reply 17 | July 11, 2013 6:37 PM |
He owes his entire career to the photographer who let him use his images as book covers, Robert Flynt.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 11, 2013 6:41 PM |
Details R16?
by Anonymous | reply 19 | March 18, 2015 3:22 AM |
When he wrote about Henry in Frisk, he said he was thinking of Keanu Reeves.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | March 18, 2015 3:25 AM |
I liked Horror Hospital Unplugged.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | March 18, 2015 3:25 AM |
William S. Burroughs, admired his writing.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | March 18, 2015 3:26 AM |
Did his Russian boyfriend do him dirty? I think he was Russian...
by Anonymous | reply 23 | March 18, 2015 3:27 AM |
Richard Price recommended, Try.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | March 18, 2015 3:29 AM |
I'd imagine so R23 considering how Cooper is into scat. Is he still with the twink?
by Anonymous | reply 25 | March 18, 2015 3:30 AM |
R16, is a total bullshitter.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | March 18, 2015 3:30 AM |
How do you know he's into scat?
by Anonymous | reply 27 | March 18, 2015 3:57 AM |
Ever read his books R27?
by Anonymous | reply 28 | March 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 Anonymous | reply 29 | March 18, 2015 7:28 AM |
What, he's not gay?
by Anonymous | reply 30 | March 18, 2015 7:40 AM |
Yes, I've read a few of his books.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | March 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 Anonymous | reply 32 | May 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."
by Anonymous | reply 33 | May 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 Anonymous | reply 34 | May 2, 2018 1:00 AM |
I loved THE SLUTS. It reminds me of datalounge but with bisexual and gay hustler twinks, and BDSM.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | March 5, 2021 6:20 PM |
Any other fans here?
by Anonymous | reply 36 | March 30, 2021 8:31 AM |
The excerpt at r32 reads well. It’s been ages since I read Frisk.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | March 30, 2021 9:23 AM |
His blog is interesting especially his interviews and film analyses.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | February 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 Anonymous | reply 39 | February 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 Anonymous | reply 40 | February 2, 2022 2:44 AM |