Tag Archives: Dennis Cooper

Try

“Written in Mr. Cooper’s taut, chillingly ironic prose. . . Try is about a world under severe emotional repression–a fascistic world of pure sadistic power. . . . As improbable…

Period

“A fascinating, intricately crafted jewel of a book . . . It’s a book one could read over and over and never exhaust.” –Dodie…

Guide

“The most seductively frightening, best written novel of contemporary urban life that anyone has attempted in a long time; it’s the funniest, too, and…

God Jr.

The boldest step into a new paradigm of narrative I’ve read in a while.” –Jim Krusoe, The Los Angeles Times

Frisk

“Frisk is a significant work of fiction. Cooper . . . wants to lead us into the wormy heart of the murderous impulse.” –Michael Cunningham, author of A Home at the End of the World…

The Dream Police

“The Dream Police fights the context of poetry in a way I can only call urgent and beautiful. He is interested in evacuating all…

Closer

“The last literary outlaw in mainstream American fiction.”—Bret Easton Ellis Winner of the Ferro–Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction From “the most dangerous writer in…