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Dennis Cooper is a novelist, poet, critic and performance artist. His work has inspired numerous bands including Deerhunter and his work has been translated into seventeen languages. Cooper has been the subject of the biography Wrong by Diarmuid Hester and now lives in Paris.Extraordinary. . . . One of the few new American writers with a completely distinctive voice
- Edmund White,
A story about how desire can persist to the brink of self-destruction and beyond. . . . A work of considerable courage
- Thomas R. Edwards, The New York Review of Books
Closer translates the moments and feelings for which we don't really have a vocabulary. Cooper taps the ineffable, the murky underside of sexual and human relations
- Lynne Tillman,
An incredibly beautiful and daring book
- Kathy Acker,
Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer
- William S. Burroughs,
Without a doubt one of the most vital and important writers to emerge in the past fifty years, and his genius goes far beyond mere taboo-breaking . . . Cooper's books are dissection tables of desire; they take a bone saw to the dreams, sexual fantasies, obsessions, youthful delusions, and myths of fame and individuality that have come to define our private and public selves' Interview
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A master of transgressive literature featuring all manner of minutely observed depravity . . . each novel is a brilliantly crafted piece of transgressive literature
- Tony O’Neill,
His work belongs with the likes of Poe, the Marquis de Sade, Charles Baudelaire and Georges Bataille, other writers who argued with mortality.
San Francisco Chronicle
Cooper is a profoundly original American visionary, and the most important transgressive literary artist since Burroughs . . . An American master
Salon
My generation is very much marked by Dennis Cooper's George Miles cycle: in the 1990s, everyone read these books; I was awed by them
- Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars Room,
A queer cult writer ... Cooper is unflinching in his exploration of the seedy depths of underground American queer life
- James Hodge, Attitude