Synopses & Reviews
Fiction. Part of Akashic's Little House on the Bowery Series, Dennis Cooper's USERLANDS: NEW FICTION FROM THE BLOGGING UNDERGROUND, compiles short stories from fiction writers contributing to the ever-growing network of literary blogging. Contributors include Bett Williams, Aaron Nielson, Eddie Beverage, Will Fabro, Stanya Kahn, Nicholas Messing, and many others. "Their fiction ranges in character from adventurous literary works to pieces that are astonishingly emotional, sexual, and/or personally revealing. What unifies them is their extraordinary talent, their daring and highly individualistic approaches to composing fiction, and the breathtaking freshness, charge, and skill of their prose."-Dennis Cooper
Synopsis
--A selection of Dennis Cooper's Little House on the Bowery series.
"This anthology intends to bring to light some of the new fiction writers who are using the Internet's labyrinthine array of blogs and personal web pages to expose, test, and develop their work. The contributors range in age from sixteen to early forties. They are gay, straight, and in some cases still searching for their identities. They live in North America's cities and small towns as well as in countries as physically far afield as Norway, Italy, Spain, Denmark, France, and the UK." --Dennis Cooper, from the Introduction
Contributors include more than thirty new writers such as Frankie p, Aaron Nielsen, Bett Williams, Jack Dickson, Justin Taylor, Thomas Kendall, Stanya Hahn, Eddie Beverage, Nick Hudson, Patrick De Witt, Joshua Dalton, and others.
Synopsis
Dennis Cooper's latest curated volume explodes with blog fiction of breathtaking freshness, charge, and skill.
Synopsis
This anthology brings to light some of the new fiction writers who are using the Internets labyrinthine array of blogs and personal web pages to expose, test, and develop their work. They are gay, straight, young, old, and in some cases still searching for their identities.
Written by Dennis Cooper
About the Author
Dennis Cooper is the author of 'The George Miles Cycle,' an interconnected sequence of five novels that includes Closer (1989), Frisk (1991), Try (1994), Guide (1997), and Period (2000). The cycle has been translated into fourteen languages. His most recent novel is My Loose Thread (Canongate, 2002). He lives in Los Angeles.