Wrong. Dennis Cooper is one of the most inventive and prolific artists of our time. Working in a variety of forms and media since he first exploded onto the scene in the early 1970s, he has been a punk poet, a queercore novelist, a transgressive blogger, an indie filmmaker—each successive incarnation more ingenious and surprising than the last.
In this, the first book-length study of Cooper's life and work, Diarmuid Hester shows that such comparisons hardly scratch the surface. Hester interprets Cooper’s creations within their historical, relational, and political contexts, and keeps alive the interpersonal spark that makes Cooper such an inspiration for rebels and artists everywhere.”—Wayne Koestenbaum, author, Camp Marmalade “Diarmuid Hester’s Wrong is a book about Dennis Cooper’s life and works. It.
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Using extensive archival research, close readings of texts, and new interviews with Cooper and his contemporaries, Hester weaves a complex and often thrilling biographical narrative that attests to Cooper’s status as a leading figure of the American post–War avant-garde.
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Using extensive archival research, close readings of texts, and new interviews with Cooper and his contemporaries, Hester weaves a complex and often thrilling biographical narrative that attests to Cooper’s status as a leading figure of the American postwar avant-garde. Wrong: A Critical Biography of Dennis Cooper by Diarmuid ...
It’s an inescapable irony that, for a book that does a lot of hand-wringing over the sanitation of art’s revolutionary potential, Wrong assimilates Cooper’s volatile art not only to the glass menagerie of academia, but to the safety of correct politics as well. Project MUSE - Wrong A strangely brilliant scholarly reckoning with Dennis Cooper's works. Initially, I was a bit puzzled by all the digressions into the cultural history of the artforms Cooper's works are contiguous with, and then the scope of Hester's project struck home: aside from being a groundbreaking novelist, (and to my mind, no one has shown better the perplexing LIMITS of sex as the most intimate.Wrong: A Critical Biography of Dennis Cooper - Goodreads Dennis Cooper’s hallucinatory blankness seems immune to context. When you read the best of his work, it clears your mind of everything else as completely as a dose of anesthesia or a brick to the head. Wrong: A Critical Biography of Dennis Cooper doesn't give you a good sense of what his books are like. The prose is dry and full of academic t.Wrong: A Critical Biography of Dennis Cooper – Diarmuid Hester Wrong will rightfully affirm these critical issues concerning the individual and the community at the heart of Dennis Cooper’s singular life and work. Read our 2001 interview with Dennis Cooper here. ABOUT THE REVIEWER Evan Isoline is a writer and artist living on the Oregon coast. He is the founder/editor of a conceptual publishing project. 
Diarmuid Hester's WRONG: A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF DENNIS COOPER
In Wrong, we find a biography ten years+ in the making, on a writer who is still very much alive, and whose work is still a fresh and shapeshifting influence on contemporary global subculture. As equally fresh is Cooper’s intellectual vandalism on the homogenizing control mechanisms of America in particular. Wrong: A Critical Biography of Dennis Cooper (New American ...
A lively retrospective appraisal of Cooper’s fifty-year career, Wrong tracks the emergence of Cooper’s singular style alongside his participation in a number of American subcultural movements like New York School poetry, punk rock, and radical queercore music and zines.
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Using extensive archival research, close readings of texts, and new interviews with Cooper and his contemporaries, Wrong weaves a complex and often thrilling biographical narrative that attests to Cooper’s status as a leading figure of the American post War avant-garde. WRONG - Writing | Diarmuid Hester
“Wrong,” a short story that appeared in 1986, powerfully evokes Cooper’s disenchantment with New York City. It opens with a brief account of a gay serial killer named Mike, who goes around Lower Manhattan picking up young men, taking them home, and murdering them.