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Zusatztext "There's a stainless steel sheen to Cooper's sentences that is as admirable as anything this side of Didion." Informationen zum Autor Dennis Cooper is the author of the George Miles Cycle, an interconnected sequence of five novels: Closer , Frisk , Try , Guide , and Period . His other works include My Loose Thread ; The Sluts , winner of France's Prix Sade and the Lambda Literary Award; God, Jr. ; Wrong ; The Dream Police ; and Ugly Man . He divides his time between Los Angeles and Paris. Klappentext 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 social issues, producing touchstone pieces for a generation of readers. His obituaries for Kurt Cobain, River Phoenix, and William S. Burroughs offer portraits that are both crystallizing and appropriately indefinite. His reckonings of contemporary writers are astute and unsparing. And, of course, he serves as witness to the work and play of an illustrious roster of cultural personalities—and does so with an acuity and fairness missing from most pop culture criticism. Zusammenfassung “In another country or another era, Dennis Cooper’s books would be circulated in secret, explosive samizdat editions that friends and fans would pass around and savor like forbidden absinthe.” — New York Times Book Review “His work belongs to that of Poe, the Marquis de Sade, Charles Baudelaire, and Georges Bataille, other writers who argued with mortality.” — San Francisco Chronicle From the internationally acclaimed author of Ugly Man and one of “the last literary outlaws in mainstream American fiction” (Bret Easton Ellis) comes a survey of his cultural criticism. From interviews with celebrities such as Leonard DiCaprio and Keanu Reeves; to obituaries for Kurt Cobain and River Phoenix; to writings on social issues—including the touchstone piece “AIDS: Words from the front”; Smothered in Hugs spans three decades of journalism from Dennis Cooper. ...
