problems and Cooper took him under his wing. Years later, when Cooper was 30, he had a brief love affair with the 27-year-old Miles. The cycle of books … came later, and were an attempt by Cooper to get to the bottom of both his fascination with sex and violence and his feelings for Miles." — 3:AM Magazine, November 2001, "American Psycho: An Interview With Dennis Cooper" by Stephen Lucas "George in Closer, whose room is full of Disney figures, himself becomes the toy of two forty-year-old men obsessed with the beauty of pain and suffering. In Frisk, an ex-friend is writing Julian letters: reports or fantasies of sex and violence. The description of the sexual murdering of young men is a melange of blood and slippery internal organs, too unappetizing to quote. The letters are being sent from a Holland windmill, in its isolation an ideal place for exploring the raw reality of sex, violence and death." — VPRO Television; article in Dutch In 2021, Cooper published I Wished, a sort of coda of the George Miles Cycle, through Soho Press. According to writer Justin Taylor, the novel is, "a postscript that functions just as handily as an introduction, deconstruction, or reboot." Other books Fiction Antoine Monnier (fiction, Anon Press, 1978) My Mark (fiction, Sherwood Press, 1982) Safe (novella, SeaHorse Press, 1985) Wrong (short fiction, Grove Press, 1992) My Loose Thread (novel, Canongate, 2002) The Sluts (novel, Void Books, 2004; Carroll & Graf, 2005) God Jr. (novel, Grove Press, 2005) Ugly Man (short fiction, Harper Perennial, 2009) French Hole, being 15 outtakes from 'The Marbled Swarm''' (Kiddiepunk, 2011) The Marbled Swarm (novel, Harper Perennial, November 2011) The Pyre/Le Bucher (short fiction, limited edition book given to the audience of Gisèle Vienne's performance work 'The Pyre', Editions POL, 2013) Zac's Haunted House (HTML Novel, Kiddiepunk, 2015) Zac's Control Panel (HTML Book, Kiddiepunk, 2015) I Wished (novel, Soho Press, 2021) Poetry The Terror of Earrings (Kinks Press, 1973) Tiger Beat (Little Caesar Press, 1978) Idols (SeaHorse Press, 1979; Amethyst Press, 1989) Tenderness of the Wolves (The Crossing Press, 1981) The Missing Men (Am Here Books/Immediate Editions, 1981) He Cried (Black Star Series, 1985) The Dream Police: Selected Poems '69–93 (Grove Press, 1994) Thee Tight Lung Split Roar Hums (with Thurston Moore, Byron Coley; Slow Toe Press, 2004) The Weaklings (with illustrations by Jarrod Anderson, Fanzine Press, limited edition, 2008) The Weaklings