Dennis Cooper

Bio

Complex yet ruthlessly clear, Dennis Cooper’s prose recounts the emotional and erotic lives of troubled teenagers. His characteristic ability to combine cruelty with tenderness, sadism with anxiety, has made him one of his generation’s essential voices. In addition to his film collaborations with Zac Farley, he is known for novels such as the five novel quintology The George Miles Cycle (1989 -2000), The Sluts (2008), The Marbled Swarm (2014), and I Wished (2021). He has written widely on art, film, music, and literature, and has been a Contributing Editor of Artforum since the late ’90s. Since moving from Los Angeles to Paris in 2005, he has written nine theater pieces for the director/choreographer Gisèle Vienne and composed a series of innovative GIF novels, most recently Zac’s Drug Binge (2020). In 2016, TCI hosted the East Coast premiere of Cooper and Zac Farley’s film, Like Cattle Towards Glow.