Dennis Cooper's website is now online. The site features a detailed news section with updates on current and forthcoming projects and publications, including The Sluts, available from Void Books in December 2004.

We have begun production on our next book, Dennis Cooper's novel, The Sluts. Written between 1994 and 2002, The Sluts is a black sheep cousin to Dennis Cooper's internationally acclaimed George Miles Cycle - Closer (1989), Frisk (1991), Try (1994), Guide (1997), and Period (2000). Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and told through the postings, emails, and conversations of several dozen unreliable narrators, The Sluts chronicles the evolution of one young escort's date with a satisfied client into a metafiction of pornography, lies, half-truths, and myth. Explicit, shocking, comical, and displaying the author's signature flair for blending structural complexity with direct, stylish, accessible language, The Sluts is Cooper's most transgressive novel since Frisk, and one of his most innovative works of fiction to date. The Sluts is scheduled for publication by Void Books in December 2004 in a limited edition of 1000 copies with illustrations by Todd James. Check back soon for more information about this release.

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 George Miles Cycle is published by Grove Press, and has been translated into sixteen languages. His most recent novel is My Loose Thread (Canongate Books, 2000). His other books include The Dream Police: Selected Poems '69-'93, Jerk (w/ Nayland Blake), Horror Hospital Unplugged (w/ Keith Mayerson), and Wrong. Dennis, a multi-media project including a new novella by Cooper and a CD compilation of songs created in tribute to his work, will be released in late 2004 by Versus Press/Substandard Records. Cooper is a Contributing Editor of Artforum Magazine and Editor-in-Chief of Little House on the Bowery, a line of books by adventurous new fiction writers, which are published under the auspices of Akashic Press. His forthcoming novel, The Sluts, will be published by Void Books in December 2004. He lives in Los Angeles.

Todd James belongs to a small, influential group of artists who acquired the earliest elements of their visual languages painting New York City subway cars, and in doing so altered an entire generation's perception of urban letterforms. James' work has been shown at the Venice Bienalle, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, the Tate Museum in Liverpool, the Parco Gallery in Japan, and in the STREET MARKET show at Deitch Projects in New York City.

Comfort and Critique: The Art of Sarah Payne, the new book by Peter Sotos, is scheduled for publication by Void Books in April 2005. Check back soon for more information about this release.

Thank you to everyone who attended the Peter Sotos readings in New York City and London.

To mark the publication of Selfish, Little: The Annotated Lesley Ann Downey, Peter Sotos will be reading from and discussing the book at events in New York City and London in April 2004.

March 9, 2005

Thanks to everyone who attended Dennis Cooper's reading at Skylight Books in Los Angeles on February 12. Praise for the novel is pouring in. Please see our "Recent Press" section for links to the latest articles.

Thanks to everyone who attended Dennis Cooper's reading at The Accompanied Library on January 13. Photos from the night can be seen here. Dennis will also read from The Sluts in Los Angeles on Saturday, February 12, at 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.

 

Update: Dennis Cooper will be reading from THE SLUTS on Thursday, January 13 at 7:30 p.m. at the Accompanied Library at the National Arts Club, located at 15 Gramercy Park South in New York City. As space is limited at this venue, we ask that you RSVP to be guaranteed admittance. Copies of THE SLUTS will be available for sale at this event.

We are now taking pre-orders for The Sluts. The books will ship in January 2005. The pre-order cost is $50 per copy, with free shipping for U.S. orders and discounted $5 shipping for international orders. All U.S. orders will be shipped by Priority Mail, and all international orders will be shipped by airmail. This book will go fast and will NOT be sold in stores, so please pre-order now if you want to be guaranteed a copy.

To learn more about The Sluts, please make sure to check out the section devoted to the novel on Dennis Cooper's amazing website www.denniscooper.net. This section will feature a gallery of images Dennis Cooper used to create the novel, a ton of links, art and designs from the book (including preliminary sketches by Todd James), a new interview with the author, and more. Make sure to enter the trivia contest for a chance to win the grand prize, which includes an inscribed copy of The Sluts and a page from Dennis Cooper's original manuscript.

To mark the publication of The Sluts, Dennis Cooper will be reading from the novel in early 2005 at events in New York City and Los Angeles. The L.A. reading will be held on Saturday, February 12, at 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books, located at 1818 N. Vermont Avenue. Wayne Koestenbaum will also read from his new novel, Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes, now available from Soft Skull Press, at this event. We are still working out the date and venue for the New York reading and will post the information shortly. Everyone on the East Coast, please check back soon.

We are also taking pre-orders for the paperback reissue of our first release, Peter Sotos' Selfish, Little: The Annotated Lesley Ann Downey, available in January 2005. This edition features new cover art by Matthew Brannon and is limited to 1000 copies. The pre-order cost is $15 per book, with free shipping for U.S. orders and discounted $5 shipping for international orders. All U.S. orders will be shipped by Priority Mail, and all international orders will be shipped by airmail.

There is a small number of signed copies of the hardcover edition of Selfish, Little still available for sale exclusively through this site at the original price of $60. If you would like a copy of this soon to be scarce first edition, please order now.

Update: We have finished production on The Sluts and will begin taking pre-orders for the book on Wednesday, December 9. The Sluts will be strictly limited to 550 numbered copies printed in 2 colors on Mohawk Superfine paper, bound in black and white 3-piece linen, and signed by Dennis Cooper and Todd James. The pre-order cost will be $50 per book, with free shipping for all US orders and discounted shipping for international orders.

August 8, 2004

Welcome to the new Void Books website. The site has been completely redesigned and updated with information about our next two titles: The Sluts by Dennis Cooper (December 2004) and Comfort and Critique: The Art of Sarah Payne by Peter Sotos (May 2005). We've also added an exclusive interview with Peter Sotos and video from his April 22, 2004 reading at subTonic Lounge in New York City. We still have a limited number of signed copies of Selfish, Little available for sale exclusively through this site. Order a signed copy while they last.

Dennis Cooper's website is now online. The site features a detailed news section with updates on current and forthcoming projects and publications, including The Sluts, available from Void Books in December 2004.

We have begun production on our next book, Dennis Cooper's novel, The Sluts. Written between 1994 and 2002, The Sluts is a black sheep cousin to Dennis Cooper's internationally acclaimed George Miles Cycle - Closer (1989), Frisk (1991), Try (1994), Guide (1997), and Period (2000). Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and told through the postings, emails, and conversations of several dozen unreliable narrators, The Sluts chronicles the evolution of one young escort's date with a satisfied client into a metafiction of pornography, lies, half-truths, and myth. Explicit, shocking, comical, and displaying the author's signature flair for blending structural complexity with direct, stylish, accessible language, The Sluts is Cooper's most transgressive novel since Frisk, and one of his most innovative works of fiction to date. The Sluts is scheduled for publication by Void Books in December 2004 in a limited edition of 1000 copies with illustrations by Todd James. Check back soon for more information about this release.

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 George Miles Cycle is published by Grove Press, and has been translated into sixteen languages. His most recent novel is My Loose Thread (Canongate Books, 2000). His other books include The Dream Police: Selected Poems '69-'93, Jerk (w/ Nayland Blake), Horror Hospital Unplugged (w/ Keith Mayerson), and Wrong. Dennis, a multi-media project including a new novella by Cooper and a CD compilation of songs created in tribute to his work, will be released in late 2004 by Versus Press/Substandard Records. Cooper is a Contributing Editor of Artforum Magazine and Editor-in-Chief of Little House on the Bowery, a line of books by adventurous new fiction writers, which are published under the auspices of Akashic Press. His forthcoming novel, The Sluts, will be published by Void Books in December 2004. He lives in Los Angeles.

Todd James belongs to a small, influential group of artists who acquired the earliest elements of their visual languages painting New York City subway cars, and in doing so altered an entire generation's perception of urban letterforms. James' work has been shown at the Venice Bienalle, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, the Tate Museum in Liverpool, the Parco Gallery in Japan, and in the STREET MARKET show at Deitch Projects in New York City.

Comfort and Critique: The Art of Sarah Payne, the new book by Peter Sotos, is scheduled for publication by Void Books in April 2005. Check back soon for more information about this release.

Thank you to everyone who attended the Peter Sotos readings in New York City and London.

To mark the publication of Selfish, Little: The Annotated Lesley Ann Downey, Peter Sotos will be reading from and discussing the book at events in New York City and London in April 2004.

The New York City reading will be held on Thursday, April 22nd, 2004 from 7-9 p.m. at subTonic Lounge, located at 107 Norfolk Street. For directions and more information about the venue please visit www.tonicnyc.com. The handbill for this event was designed by New York artist Matthew Brannon.

The London reading will be held on Thursday, April 29th, 2004 at 7:30 p.m. at The Horse Hospital, located at Colonnade, Bloomsbury. For directions and more information about the venue please visit www.thehorsehospital.com.

Copies of Selfish, Little will be available for sale at both events.