Dennis Cooper: The Marbled Swarm

Bookworm

KCRW

Arts

4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2012

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Dennis Cooper on the inarticulate emotions that underlie the razzle-dazzle of secret corridors, lush language, brutality and desire.

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:04.0	Boots!
0:09.0	Where would we be without books?
0:13.0	Where would we be without Gutenberg?
0:16.0	Even the thought of it's so absurd.
0:20.0	Where would we be without books?
0:22.6	Where would we be without books?
0:25.6	Where would we be?
0:26.6	Where would we be without good?
0:29.6	No, Tintybird.
0:30.6	It's a rhetorical question, sir,
0:33.6	but where would we be without books? From KCRW and KCRW.
0:40.5	I'm Michael Silverblatt and this is Bookworm.
0:44.1	One of the great pleasures of doing a literary show that comes from Los Angeles
0:50.5	is that I've been able more or less consistently to speak to the Los Angeles-born
0:58.0	writer, Dennis Cooper. But he's been living in Paris for around the last eight years, so these
1:06.0	conversations are not as frequent as they once were. His new book is The Marbled Swarm.
1:13.7	It's published as a paperback original by Harper Perennial.
1:18.8	And, well, it's the first book that's not said in Los Angeles, isn't it?
1:24.7	Yeah.
1:25.7	That's no Los Angeles at all.
1:27.5	It's a French novel. It is all. It's a French novel.
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