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"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
There's a stainless steel sheen to Cooper's sentences that is as admirable as anything this side of Didion. -- Salon
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.
Author: Dennis Cooper
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 06/29/2010
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.32w x 0.98d
ISBN13: 9780061715617
ISBN10: 0061715611
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Literary Collections | Women Authors
- Literary Collections | Letters