Dennis Cooper





Dennis Cooper

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born
in Arcadia, California, The United States
January 10, 1953

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influences
Rimbaud, Verlaine, De Sade, Baudelaire


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Dennis Cooper was born on January 10, 1953 and grew up in the Southern California cities of Covina and Arcadia. In 1976, he founded Little Caesar Magazine and Press, which he ran until 1982. In 1985, he moved to Amsterdam for two and a half years, where he began his ten year long project, The George Miles Cycle, an interconnected sequence of five novels that includes Closer, Frisk, Try, Guide, and Period. His post-George Miles Cycle novels include My Loose Thread, The Sluts and his most recent novel, the highly acclaimed God, Jr. Other works include the short-story collection Wrong, a collection of poetry titled The Dream Police and All Ears: Cultural Cristicism, Essays and Obituaries. Dennis Cooper currently spends his time between Los Ang...more


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1. 'Arthur Rimbaud dreamed even in youth of escape from tedium -- the anonymity and tedium of an age in which everything was reduced to statistics. Escape from his home town of Charleville to Paris, from Paris to the Orient, from the Orient to Nothingness. At the very start of his quest he called for revolt in the name of art and defined creation as the profanation of all the modern age ho... Read more of this blog post »
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Published on June 17, 2013 00:09
Average rating: 3.75 · 6,842 ratings · 742 reviews · 48 distinct works · Similar authors
Frisk
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 859 ratings — published 1991 — 10 editions
The Sluts
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 587 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions
Closer
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 672 ratings — published 1989 — 7 editions
Try
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3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 485 ratings — published 1994 — 8 editions
Guide
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 390 ratings — published 1997 — 7 editions
God Jr.
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 422 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions
Period
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 360 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions
My Loose Thread
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 330 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions
Wrong
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 271 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions
Ugly Man
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 292 ratings — published 2009 — 12 editions
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“When I started writing
I was a sick teenaged
fuck inside who partly
thought I was the new
Marquis de Sade, a body
doomed to communicate
with Satan who was us-
ing my sickness as his
home away from home,
and there’s your proof.”
Dennis Cooper

“Dan thought of love as defined by books, cobwebbed and hidden from view by the past. Too bad a love like that didn't actually exist. In the twentieth century one had to fake it.”
Dennis Cooper, Closer

“I'm a talentless but popular young singer and I have the feeling someone is watching me. I use the term loosely because I have few feelings, and even they're too simple, like primary colors.”
Dennis Cooper, Closer

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