Dennis Cooper
1) Closer
Author
Series
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Like Jean Genet and William Burroughs, Dennis Cooper assaults the senses as he engages the mind with visions of nightmare intensity in a world where stimulation without excitement and experience without emotion are prized.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
From literary cult hero Dennis Cooper comes his most haunting work to date.
"An American master…. Cooper is the most important transgressive literary artist since Burroughs." --Salon
In secret passageways, hidden rooms, and the troubled mind of our narrator, a mystery perpetually takes shape-and the most compelling clue to its final nature is "the marbled swarm" itself, a complex amalgam of language passed down from father to son.
Cooper ensnares...
3) Try
Author
Series
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Third in the George Miles Cycle.
Simultaneously deadpan and queasily raw, Try is the story of Ziggy, the adopted teenage son of two sexually abusive fathers. He turns from both of these men to his uncle, who sells pornographic videos on the black market, and to his best friend, a junkie whose own vulnerability inspires in Ziggy a fierce and awkward devotion.
Terminally insecure and yet inured to sexual brutality, Ziggy questions his two fathers,...
4) I wished
Author
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"For most of his life, Dennis Cooper believed the person he had loved the most and would always love above all others was George Miles. In his first novel in ten years, Dennis Cooper writes about George Miles, love, loss, addiction, suicide, and how fiction can capture these things, and how it fails to capture them. Candid and powerful, I Wished is a radical work of shifting forms. It includes appearances by Santa Claus, land artist James Turrell,...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Suave Harvard Medical School grad Ray Howard seems destined to specialize in womanizing. That is, until he heads to Florida to intern under the tutelage of chief resident Dr. Sidney Zachary. With help from his girlfriend, 'Dr. Z' sets out to mold Ray into a caring, responsible doctor. Along the way, he shares some important truths and a whole lot of humor in this sexy romantic comedy.
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Roman seems like a normal teenager, playing video games, drawing, and hanging out with his friends, but under the surface he’s made a decision, a decision to explode. He wants to do it in public. He's not suicidal. He has no ideology. He's not interested in "heaven" or in going there. He doesn't want people to misinterpret his explosion as a suicide. He doesn't want people to misinterpret the explosion as his death. Official Selection at the **Rotterdam...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Suave Harvard Medical School grad Ray Howard seems destined to specialize in womanizing. That is, until he heads to Florida to intern under the tutelage of chief resident Dr. Sidney Zachary. With help from his girlfriend, 'Dr. Z' sets out to mold Ray into a caring, responsible doctor. Along the way, he shares some important truths and a whole lot of humor in this sexy romantic comedy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Phaidon
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"California-based artist Raymond Pettibon began making his signature ink-wash drawings framed or pinned directly on the wall, they are often combined by the dozens in no discernible order, like a giant scattered notebook. With solo exhibitions worldwide including a retrospective at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1994), Pettibon is considered one of the world's most significant innovators of figurative art. Poet and novelist Dennis Cooper...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The incredible variety of Acker's body of work has been distilled into a single volume that reads like a communiqué from the front lines of late-20th century America. Acker was a literary pirate whose prodigious output drew promiscuously from popular culture, the classics of Western civilization, current events, and the raw material of her own life.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The ground-breaking, critically acclaimed series Hill Street Blues is set in Hill Street Police Station; the heart of a racially torn, crime-ridden precinct of an unidentified urban metropolis where the peace is kept thanks to a tenuous trust between the police and the people they protect.