The audience had turned up that night to hear Dennis Cooper, the Los Angeles writer, editor and artist, read from his new novel, Frisk. My book WRONG: A Critical Biography of Dennis Cooper shows him in an entirely different light. A critical biography is a wonderfully malleable form that accommodates detail and anecdote as easily as scholarly discussion. As it turns out, the group behind the “DENNIS COOPER MUST DIE!” death threat consisted of just one, quite young, and pretty stupid guy. WRONG: A Critical Biography of Dennis Cooper by Diarmuid Hester is published by the University of Iowa Press

Source: The Irish Times June 24, 2020 04:30 UTC