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Published in Italian, May 2024.
English edition to be announced.
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(Photography and Design: Douglas Anthony Cooper.)
Living and Writing in Two Worlds: In Conversation with Douglas Anthony Cooper — by Anna Foschi
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“Cooper is not an author you will find anyone reading under a beach umbrella. His novels are structurally complex, metaphysical, sometime visionary; they report on existence at the boundary between reality and imagination. They have been described as ‘architectural.'”
(From Reviews of Amnesia)
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NEW YORK TIMES (MICHIKO KAKUTANI)“Amnesia (is a) chilly, chilling first novel…. Its elliptical narrative style recalls works by D.M. Thomas, Paul Auster, Sam Shepard and Vladimir Nabokov…. One gradually comes to appreciate Mr. Cooper’s copious gifts: his ability to manufacture odd, cinematic images; his talent for creating a musically patterned narrative out of repeated symbols and motifs; his willingness to tackle ambitious intellectual themes.”
The sequel to Milrose Munce. (Photography and Design: Douglas Anthony Cooper.)
(Written in solidarity with the impossibly brave citizens of Ukraine. This is scheduled to appear in an anthology, And Blue Will Rise Over Yellow, to be published in the fall by Kallisto Gaia Press.)
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“Caught on camera, the woman confronted a Russian soldier and asked him to keep sunflower seeds in his pocket so that they bloom when he dies.
(A long short story published in The Adirondack Review many years before Donald Trump called for the expulsion of Muslims from America.)
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ON LABOR DAY the vultures disappeared. Nobody could remember when they had not circled early dawn: Death’s falcons, turning miles above the arid northwest reaches of Tribeca, tethered by scent.
THE MUSEUM OF NON-VISIBLE ART
(This was a collaborative project with Praxis and James Franco. I contributed two invisible works to the museum, and wrote the manifesto. I’m not sure we did more with the concept than Yoko Ono, but I remain happy with what I wrote.)
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(The invisible works themselves can be seen, as it were, elsewhere.)
Who I was in the Nineties.
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(Writing. Media that was New at the time. Poorly scanned photography. Primitive graphics. Still fond of this.)
VOLUME ONE in the Epic Milrose Chronicle Saga in Many Volumes