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Selected from the range of Cooper's essays and reportage in Artforum, Bookforum, Detour, Interview, LA Weekly, Spin, and the Village Voice, among other publications, Smothered in Hugs presents the best nonfiction of one of America's greatest writers. Cooper has written on grave social issues, producing touchstone pieces for a generation of readers. His obituaries for Kurt Cobain, River Phoenix, and William S. Burroughs offer portraits that are both crystallizing and appropriately indefinite. His reckonings of contemporary writers are astute and unsparing. And, of course, he serves as witness to the work and play of an illustrious roster of cultural personalities—and does so with an acuity and fairness missing from most pop culture criticism.
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Christopher Esch
reviewed Smothered in Hugs: Essays, Interviews, Feedback, and Obituaries on December 31, 2010
Smothered in Hugs: Essays, Interviews, Feedback, and Obituaries
I love the idea of Dennis Cooper's fiction, though I haven't ever liked the end result, at least of the ones I've read. His non-fiction, however, I find fantastic. Provocative, astute, mostly unpretentious, and he writes about lots of things I'm interested in. I think a sure sign of a great critic is that he or she makes you want to go investigate whatever it is they're writing about, even the bad stuff. Cooper can make almost anything sound interesting, even if it's only because it's so non-interesting.
This book is arranged chronologically, starting in 1985, and going up to 2004. Mostly it's stuff he's written for Spin, LA Weekly, and ArtForum. The stuff about 90's rock stars I of course liked the most. I recommend this for anyone interested in pop culture in general, and outsider-ish art specifically.
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