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Afternoon Bites: Dennis Cooper, “Justified,” Renee Gladman, and more

On January 18, 2012 By Tobias Carroll

A year of favorites: Tobias’s Best Of Not-2011

On December 21, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

Afternoon Bites: Dennis Cooper, Maureen Johnson, Amelia Gray, and more

On December 13, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

Afternoon Bites: Sara Levine, Dagmara Dominczyk, Laird Hunt, and more

On December 5, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

Morning Bites: Balzac’s food, literary personal ads, Dennis Cooper, notes from a talk, and more

On December 5, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Afternoon Bites: Ann Patchett, Ann Beattie, Kevin Sampsell, and more

On November 17, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

Conversation: Dennis Cooper

On November 14, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Interview by Jon Reiss

Dennis Cooper has been called “America’s most dangerous writer,” and thus, it’s no surprise that he’s also one of the most publicly criticized writers on the literary scene. For many, Cooper is a character, the guy who writes that really out there shit, a figure most comfortably marginalized rather than explored. Cooper’s work has been compartmentalized as “shock fiction” or “gay fiction “ or “ gay shock fiction” and has existed as a mainly underground, cult force for last three decades. However, for last couple of years, interesting things have been happening in [...]
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Indexing: Murakami, Monica Drake, Robert Gardner/Coover, and Virtually Everything Else Imaginable.

On November 12, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

A roundup of things consumed by our editors.

Tobias Carroll
I’m planning to start Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 in the coming weeks. It’s been a while since I read one of his novels, and so picked up his After Dark as a sort of chaser. And…I’m not sure that I loved it. His evocation of nighttime moods is close to perfect, as is his suggestion of something unbearably sinister lying below the surface of daily life. But while he establishes a number of concurrent plot threads that are each beguiling in their own way, they never…entirely…connected. [...]
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