Dennis Cooperauthor profile |
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| born | January 10, 1953 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| website | http://www.denniscooper.net/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| genre | Gay & Lesbian, Literature & Fiction | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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about this author
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...more |
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books by Dennis Coopercombine editionsavg rating: 3.68 | 1259 ratings | 29 distinct works
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quotes by Dennis Cooper
"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
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












