Interview with Dennis Cooper
November 30, 2011
Today at The Huffington Post my interview with Dennis Cooper ran. We talked about his excellent new novel, The Marbled Swarm and French influences: “I wanted to build a voice that was beholden to French literature, and particularly to its avant-garde wing, which had such a huge impact on my writing from the outset, but was kind of polluted with my own voice, which is very American, I think, and specifically Los Angeles-centric in its flatness and in its attempt to induce some kind of poetic trance within its limitations.” Read the rest.
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