Reminder: Dennis Cooper & Dodie Bellamy at City Lights @ Wed Nov 16 7pm - 8pm (Queer Things)

more details » Dennis Cooper & Dodie Bellamy at City Lights Dennis Cooper & Dodie Bellamy Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 7:00 P.M., City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue at Broadway, San Francisco, CA 94133 Dennis Cooper celebrates the release of The Marbled Swarm published by Harper Perennial The long-anticipated new novel from literary icon Dennis Cooper is a moody and foreboding tale of a son's unwitting devotion to a possibly insane father. The Marbled Swarm tells the story of a son raised by a charmingly psychopathic father and taught a private language only the two of them know. With its Parisian and French countryside setting; its trappings of high art, old money, and haute cuisine that obscure an unspeakable system of coercion and surrender; and its completely original, lilting voice; The Marbled Swarm may read as a departure from Cooper's earlier work – a new beginning, of sorts. But once again – with secret passages, events that may or may not have happened, and a father-son relationship strangely heavy with sexual tension – readers will find themselves enveloped in a world only Dennis Cooper could create. Dodie Bellamy celebrates the release of the buddhist from Publication Studio's San Francisco Branch, Allone Editions the buddhist: What is personal, what is public? In our electronic age, can anybody tell the difference? While ending an affair with a Buddhist teacher, Dodie Bellamy wrote about it simultaneously on her blog. In her experiment in writing through states of extremis, she explores nuances of public shame, the vagaries of desire and rage, and her confusion over the authenticity of group and individual spirituality. Her book becomes a celebration of marginalized subjectivity as enacted in the work of female artists from Bessie Smith to Eva Hesse and Carolee Schneeman, to Bhanu Kapil and Ariana Reines. This volume contains the essence of the blog, as well as more extended narratives too explicit to post on line. Like Duras' The Lover, Bellamy's writing glorifies the abject and the discarded; it is a passionate evocation of a love lost and a raw depth plumbed. Dennis Cooper – called a "disquieting genius" by Vanity Fair – is the acclaimed author of the George Miles Cycle, an interconnected sequence of five novels: Closer, Frisk, Try, Guide, and Period. His other works include My Loose Thread; The Sluts, winner of France's Prix Sade and the Lambda Literary Award; God, Jr.; Wrong; The Dream Police; Ugly Man; and Smothered in Hugs. His plays "Jerk" and "Them" are performed widely across Europe and the United States. Dodie Bellamy is a novelist, nonfiction author, journalist and editor. She is one of the originators in the New Narrative literary movement, which attempts to use the tools of experimental fiction and critical theory and apply them to narrative storytelling. Dodie is the author of Feminine Hijinx, Broken English, The Letters of Mina Harker, and Pink Steam . When Wed Nov 16 7pm – 8pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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