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Smothered in Hugs: Essays, Interviews, Feedback, and Obituaries
Selected from the range of Cooper's essays and reportage in "Artforum," "Bookforum," "Detour," "Interview," "LA Weekly," "Spin," and the "Village Voice," among other publications, "Smothered in Hugs" presents the best nonfiction of one of America's greatest writers. Cooper has written on grave
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Of my generation (don't ask my age) Dennis Cooper is one of the more important writers that's out there. His fiction i think is going to be tattooed on the literary map for a long time. What is not that much known is his non-fiction writing, especially his critical writing on the visual arts as well as literature. And what we have here (to be released in the Summer, 2010) is a collection of his non-fiction work for various publications.
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I love the idea of Dennis Cooper's fiction, though I haven't ever liked the end result, at least of the ones I've read. His non-fiction, however, I find fantastic. Provocative, astute, mostly unpretentious, and he writes about lots of things I'm interested in. I think a sure sign of a great critic is that he or she makes you want to go investigate whatever it is they're writing about, even the bad stuff. Cooper can make almost anything sound interesting, even if it's only because it's so non...more
Dennis Cooper is many things – poet, essayist, critic and novelist – but through it all, he is insightful, cutting, personal and dark. As a critic for various magazines and alternative weekies, his work often mines the outer edges of popular culture, which is exactly what is collected in this new compilation from Harper Perennial, “Smothered In Hugs: Essays, Interviews, Feedback and Obituaries.”
In it, Cooper tackles such luminaries as Courtney Love, John Waters, Quentin T...more
I really wanted to love this book. It is really well written and some of the essays are fantastic. I think the main problem, which would make my giving of 3 stars unfair, is that I am too young to remember half the things he writes about.
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Smothered in Hugs is a collection of Dennis Cooper's interviews, reviews, and cultural criticism. If you're a fan of his, it's essential. If you've never heard of him before, you'd still probably enjoy the interviews with people like Stephen Malkmus, John Waters, Clive Barker, Leonardo DiCaprio, etc. I admit to glazed-over eyes during some of the art criticism if it was about someone I had never heard of, but the interviews nicely made up for it.
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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, an...more
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