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Product Description: The Marbled Swarm is Dennis Cooper’s most haunting work to date. 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...read more
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9780061715631 | Perennial, November 1, 2011, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: The Marbled Swarm is Dennis Cooper’s most haunting work to date.

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Product Description: Jerk is a collaborative artist's book and audio recording by director Gisele Vienne, author Dennis Cooper, musician Peter Rehberg and performer Jonathan Capdevielle, which translates a previous collaborative theater work into a violent multimedia disquisition on puppetry, serial killing and homoeroticism...read more
By Dennis Cooper (editor) and Gisele Vienne (photographer)
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9782914563635, titled "Jerk / Through Their Tears: Through Their Tears" | Pap/com edition (Dis Voir Editions, May 31, 2011), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Jerk is a collaborative artist's book and audio recording by director Gisele Vienne, author Dennis Cooper, musician Peter Rehberg and performer Jonathan Capdevielle, which translates a previous collaborative theater work into a violent multimedia disquisition on puppetry, serial killing and homoeroticism.

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Product Description: 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...read more
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9780061715617 | 1 edition (Perennial, June 29, 2010), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: 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.

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9780062002952 | Harpercollins, June 29, 2010, cover price $9.99

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Product Description: "Cooper has given voice to an emptiness we can barely stand to think about. . . . He dallies with the workings of narration and, in doing so, with the meaning of self. His work belongs to that of Poe, the Marquis de Sade, Charles Baudelaire, and Georges Bataille, other writers who argued with mortality...read more
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9781593501693 | Alyson Pubns, November 1, 2010, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: "Cooper has given voice to an emptiness we can barely stand to think about.

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Product Description: A phenomenal debut novella to further establish the literary excellence of Dennis Cooper's Little House on the Bowery series.“In The Late Work of Margaret Kroftis, Mark Gluth does something I've never seen another author do: he captures perfectly the feel of daydreams...read more
By Dennis Cooper (editor)
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9781933354941, titled "The Late Work of Margaret Kroftis" | Akashic Books, January 1, 2010, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A phenomenal debut novella to further establish the literary excellence of Dennis Cooper's Little House on the Bowery series.

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Product Description: A short story from the collection Ugly Man by Dennis Cooper.
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9780061715440 | Original edition (Perennial, June 1, 2009), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: A short story from the collection Ugly Man by Dennis Cooper.

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Product Description: The confession of serial killer David Brooks provides the starting point for Cooper's eerie tale, oddly illustrated by Blake's marionettes and puppets.
By Nayland Blake (illustrator) and Dennis Cooper
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9780963109514 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, April 1, 1993, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The confession of serial killer David Brooks provides the starting point for Cooper's eerie tale, oddly illustrated by Blake's marionettes and puppets.

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Set in a world of secret Web sites, this book touches on the many aspcts of modern-day America, such as pornography and Satanism.
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9780802116567 | Grove Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Set in a world of secret Web sites, this book touches on the many aspcts of modern-day America, such as pornography and Satanism.

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9780802137838 | Grove Pr, February 1, 2001, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Set in a world of secret Web sites, Goth culture, and satanism this black comedy of life on the fringes touches on the many aspects of modern-day America, such as pornography and outsider art as it follows a young man as he disappears into the underworld, in this final addition of the author's five-book cycle, which includes Closer and Frisk.
9781852426712 | Gardners Books, November 2, 2000, cover price $16.15 | About this edition: This is the last of a five-book cycle, set in a spare, edgy world of secret websites, Goth bands, Satanism, pornography and outsider art.

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9781555847715 | Grove Pr, December 1, 2007, cover price $9.00

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Product Description: This anthology brings to light some of the new fiction writers who are using the Internet’s labyrinthine array of blogs and personal web pages to expose, test, and develop their work. They are gay, straight, young, old, and in some cases still searching for their identities...read more
By Dennis Cooper (editor)
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9781933354156 | Akashic Books, January 1, 2007, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This anthology brings to light some of the new fiction writers who are using the Internet’s labyrinthine array of blogs and personal web pages to expose, test, and develop their work.

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Product Description: Among The Village Voices 25 Favorite Books of 2006Winner of the 2007 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show in the Trade Illustrated Book Design category. Sometime after Andy Warhol’s heyday but before Soho became a tourist trap, a group of poets, punk rockers, guerilla journalists, graffiti artists, writers, and activists transformed lower Manhattan into an artistic scene so diverse it became known simply as “Downtown...read more
By Dennis Cooper (other contributor), Eileen Myles (other contributor) and Brandon Stosuy (editor)
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9780814740101 | New York Univ Pr, September 30, 2006, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Among The Village Voices 25 Favorite Books of 2006Winner of the 2007 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show in the Trade Illustrated Book Design category.

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9780814740118 | New York Univ Pr, September 30, 2006, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: More than one hundred and twenty-five images and more than eighty texts--including flyers, zines, newsprint weeklies, book covers, and more--capture the spontaneity of New York's downtown literary scene between 1974 and 1992, offering profiles of Spalding Gray, Lynne Tillman, Eric Bogosian, Kathy Acker, Miguel Piero, and other writers.

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A tale largely told through the postings, e-mails, and board conversations on a Web site where gay male escorts are reviewed by dozens of unreliable client narrators traces the evolution of one young escort's date with a satisfied client, an evening that burgeons into a metafiction of pornography, half-truths, and myths. Reprint.
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9780786716746 | Reprint edition (Da Capo Pr, October 18, 2005), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A tale largely told through the postings, e-mails, and board conversations on a Web site where gay male escorts are reviewed by dozens of unreliable client narrators traces the evolution of one young escort's date with a satisfied client, an evening that burgeons into a metafiction of pornography, half-truths, and myths.

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A father who has just lost his son in a car accident in which he was injured becomes obsessed with discovering the true identity of the dead boy, a moody, mysterious teenager who repeatedly drew the same building in his notebook. Original.
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9780802170118 | Pgw, August 9, 2005, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: A father who has just lost his son in a car accident in which he was injured becomes obsessed with discovering the true identity of the dead boy, a moody, mysterious teenager who repeatedly drew the same building in his notebook.

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Product Description: The Fall of Heartless Horse is a postmodern multigenerational family drama that is dark, hilarious, moving and wildly original. By turns lyric, comic, tragic and absurd, it deals with greed, inheritance, heroism, internecine intrigue, capitalism, sex, and the intertwining of public and private history...read more
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9781888451733 | Akashic Books, November 15, 2004, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: The Fall of Heartless Horse is a postmodern multigenerational family drama that is dark, hilarious, moving and wildly original.

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Product Description: "Headless is fearless, fun, and sometimes filthy . . . an alphabet soup of -delight in language. Eat up."—Alice Sebold"Brilliant. Wildly inventive, profane, and hilarious."—Bret Easton EllisThe author of the acclaimed cult classic Dear Dead Person ("refreshing, nauseating, hilarious"—Kirkus) returns with this long-awaited collection of brilliantly written and outrageously imaginative short stories...read more
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9781888451498 | Akashic Books, February 1, 2004, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: "Headless is fearless, fun, and sometimes filthy .

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Product Description: Four low-tech films produced in L.A. in the summer of 2002 from scripts written by artist Raymond Pettibon, films in which the artist's friends perform, as does the artist himself. A nostalgic but timeless look back at the punk music scene of the late 1970s and early 80s...read more
By Raymond Pettibon (contributor)
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9783883757520 | Dvd edition (Walther Konig, January 2, 2004), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Four low-tech films produced in L.

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9780714839196 | Phaidon Inc Ltd, June 13, 2001, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: In the early 1980s California-based artist Raymond Pettibon first began making his signature inkwash drawings - combinations of cartoon-like images with short, enigmatic texts - to adorn the record covers of underground music groups like Black Flag and Sonic Youth.

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A teenager struggling to come to terms with his sexual identity and his physical feelings toward his younger brother, Larry is offered $500 to kill a fellow student and retrieve the boy's notebook, a personal volume that provides Larry with profound insights into his own life. Reprint.
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9781841952741 | Canongate Books Ltd, May 1, 2002, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Larry, a teenager not only wrestling with his sexuality and the implications of a physical relationship with his younger brother but with the purpose and the reason to his existence, is numb.

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9781841954127 | Reprint edition (Canongate Books Ltd, June 1, 2003), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A teenager struggling to come to terms with his sexual identity and his physical feelings toward his younger brother, Larry is offered $500 to kill a fellow student and retrieve the boy's notebook, a personal volume that provides Larry with profound insights into his own life.

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Product Description: Australian artist Bill Henson is a passionate and visionary explorer of twilight zones, of the ambiguous spaces that exist between day and night, nature and civilization, youth and adulthood, male and female. His photographs of landscapes at dusk, of the industrial no-man's land that lies on the outskirts of our cities, and of androgynous girls and boys adrift in the nocturnal turmoil of adolescence are painterly tableaux that continue the tradition of romantic literature and painting in our post-industrial age...read more
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9783908247555 | Scala Pub, March 1, 2003, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Australian artist Bill Henson is a passionate and visionary explorer of twilight zones, of the ambiguous spaces that exist between day and night, nature and civilization, youth and adulthood, male and female.

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Product Description: Kathy Acker pushed literary boundaries with a vigor and creative fire that made her one of America's preeminent experimental writers and her books cult classics. Now Amy Scholder and Dennis Cooper have distilled the incredible variety of Acker's body of work into a single volume that reads like a communique from the front lines of late-twentieth-century America...read more
By Amy Acker (editor), Kathy Acker, Dennis Cooper (editor) and Jeanette Winterson (introduced by)
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9780802139214 | 1 edition (Grove Pr, October 1, 2002), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Kathy Acker pushed literary boundaries with a vigor and creative fire that made her one of America's preeminent experimental writers and her books cult classics.

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Product Description: The work of Tom Friedman captures for many the essence of art at the beginning of a new century: modest in scale; imaginative and ecological; painstakingly crafted and "unheroic". Friedman suggests a new direction in art - post-video; post-political/identity issues; post-digital media; post-ready-mades...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780714839868 | Phaidon Inc Ltd, March 26, 2001, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The work of Tom Friedman captures for many the essence of art at the beginning of a new century: modest in scale; imaginative and ecological; painstakingly crafted and "unheroic".

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Amazon.com Review: Dennis Cooper is best known as the author of transgressive novels such as Guide and Try, but he's also done his share of journalism. All Ears collects work from a variety of publications, including a profile of Sonny Bono that originally appeared in George and pieces from Spin on former Hüsker Dü frontman Bob Mould and homeless HIV-positive youth in Los Angeles...read more
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9781887128339 | Soft Skull Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $13.25 | About this edition: Amazon.

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Explores the psyches of four young gay men who are trying to alter their existance with drugs, violent erotic experiences, and love
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9780802116086 | Grove Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Presents a disturbing and provocative exploration of four young men who want more than anything to be altered by drugs, the power of love, or the violently erotic experiences they share with each other.
9780756775452 | Diane Pub Co, March 1, 1997, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Remembering the clarity he felt during an LSD trip in his teens, "Dennis" drops acid and attempts to write a novel that will make sense of his life, his desires, his friends and his art.

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9780802135803 | Grove Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Explores the psyches of four young gay men who are trying to alter their existance with drugs, violent erotic experiences, and love
9781852425869 | Serpents Tail, May 1, 1998, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Amazon.

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Product Description: Sexually confused and more than a little lost, Trevor Machine, teenage front man for up-and-coming indie rockers Horror Hospital, walks a rocky road toward fame and fortune. But making it to the top may mean gambling away every last trace of his integrity, and Trevor's soul hangs in the balance as he discovers the dark side of success...read more
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9780965104210, titled "Horror Hospital Unplugged: A Graphic Novel" | Juno Books, December 1, 1996, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Sexually confused and more than a little lost, Trevor Machine, teenage front man for up-and-coming indie rockers Horror Hospital, walks a rocky road toward fame and fortune.

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Product Description: In the early 1980s California-based artist Raymond Pettibon first began making his signature inkwash drawings - combinations of cartoon-like images with short, enigmatic texts - to adorn the record covers of underground music groups like Black Flag and Sonic Youth...read more
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9783857801068 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, October 1, 1996, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: In the early 1980s California-based artist Raymond Pettibon first began making his signature inkwash drawings - combinations of cartoon-like images with short, enigmatic texts - to adorn the record covers of underground music groups like Black Flag and Sonic Youth.

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A critically acclaimed poet offers a collection of the best poems from his previous books along with a selection of new works, from erotic verse to 'post-punk' poems to experimental pieces exploring the risks and joys of gay relationships. Original.
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9780802115690 | Grove Pr, April 1, 1995, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A critically acclaimed gay poet and novelist gathers the best poems from his previous books, along with new verse, ranging in expression from Baudelairean eroticism to punk rock disaffection to avant garde experiments.

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9780802134578, titled "The Dream Police: Selected Poems, 1969-1993" | Grove Pr, June 1, 1996, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: A critically acclaimed poet offers a collection of the best poems from his previous books along with a selection of new works, from erotic verse to 'post-punk' poems to experimental pieces exploring the risks and joys of gay relationships.

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Ziggy, the adopted teenaged son of two sexually abusive fathers, turns to his uncle, who sells pornographic videos, and his best friend, a junkie, in a complex tale of sexuality, abuse, and attraction
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9780802115423 | Grove Pr, February 1, 1994, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Ziggy, the adopted teenaged son of two sexually abusive fathers, turns to his uncle, who sells pornographic videos, and his best friend, a junkie, in a complex tale of sexuality, abuse, and attraction

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9780802133380 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, April 1, 1995), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Ziggy, the adopted teenaged son of two sexually abusive fathers, turns to his uncle, who sells pornographic videos, and his best friend, a junkie, in a complex tale of sexuality, abuse, and attraction

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