The Plague of Toxic Fungus

VOLUME TWO in the Epic Milrose Chronicle Saga in Many Volumes

© Douglas Anthony Cooper
— Photography & Design

The Plot Thickens: Interview

AN INTERVIEW with Novelist Douglas Anthony Cooper.

(This dialogue was published in Architecture magazine, which is no longer with us. The piece never appeared online.  I did not own a copy for years, but I recently stumbled over this transcript: the conversation looks a bit quaint, in this century, but it’s a nice time capsule.)

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The few architects we find in popular fiction are predictably likable.

Amnesia: A Novel

SHORTLISTED for the WH Smith Award, longlisted for the Commonwealth Prize.

My Novels Reviewed

(From Reviews of Amnesia)

“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 Absent Vultures of Tribeca

(This long short story was published in The Adirondack Review, many years before Donald Trump called for the expulsion of Muslims from America.)

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.

Milrose Munce & The Den of Professional Help

VOLUME ONE in the Epic Milrose Chronicle Saga in Many Volumes

Dysmedia

Who I was in the Nineties.

(Writing. Media that was New at the time. Poorly scanned photography. Primitive graphics. Quite proud of this.)

Should a Novelist Feel Bitter Losing to Stephen King? Not Really.

(THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 29, 2000. They wanted to know what it felt like to have Stephen King make a fortune on an idea which had originally been mine, and upon which I had famously not made a fortune. This piece ushers in my much-lauded period of faux self-effacement.)

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Stephen King, as I’m sure you know, made headlines — and a small fortune — when his e-novella, “Riding the Bullet,” was published online in March.