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Dennis Cooper unveils a mesmerizing debut story collection for his Little House on the Bowery fiction series.
For all their postmodernist touches, the nine stories in poet Christopher's provocative and refreshing debut collection offer coherent plots and accessible prose, starting with the long title tale, about the efforts of a guy named Dumb to forget his dead boyfriend, Right, as he embarks on a new relationship with a person called Orange. In "Game Belly," which charts the night moves of club kids, characters are identified not by name but by brief tags like "the kid with long hair." "White Dog" finds menace in a woman's not so mundane trip to the supermarket. The supershort "Milk" plops a horse into a kitchen. With a lot of alternative fiction, one gets the feeling that the writer's rejection of traditional forms isn't earned; not so with this author, who's also a librettist and playwright. More Russell Banks than Donald Barthelme, Christopher could write solid, naturalistic stories if he chose, and he almost does. (Feb.)
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Kurt Berlin
reviewed The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse on September 04, 2011
The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse
2011 Book 93/100
You guessed correctly, friends - I absolutely picked this one up for it's title. How do you pass up a book on the library shelf that loudly proclaims it's title as The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse? Unfortunately the title was the best part of the book for me. It is a book that, as another Goodreader summarized in his review for the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]
"by a New York poet and playwright who goes by the nom-de-plume "Lonely Christopher," the latest in Dennis Cooper's edgy "Little House on the Bowery" series for Akashic Books. And indeed, that's the main excitement of an iconoclastic series like this in the first place, is the uneven nature of the books that are picked, with some that stick with you in a cultishly obsessive way and some that simply fall flat; and although I acknowledge that Intercourse will likely be the former with a lot of readers out there, it was unfortunately the latter with me, a book that felt just a tad too pretentious and forced for my tastes, deliberately obtuse prose-poems that make little narrative sense.."
Yep. That.
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