The Dennis Cooper Papers is comprised of the correspondence and manuscripts of many notable literary and cultural figures, scrapbooks, manuscripts, collaborative projects, journals, journalism, reviews, business/production files for each book project, zines, posters, videocassettes, tapes, and materials from both Little Caesar Magazineand Little Caesar Press. The Cooper Papers contains an almost comprehensive collection of the early to present-day literary career of Dennis Cooper. Cooper's original organization of his papers was preserved as much as possible.

Original format for most materials.

SERIES DESCRIPTIONS

SERIES I: Book projects and related materials

subseries A contains 4 boxes of book project materials, including promotional materials, business records, manuscripts, reviews, scrapbooks, correspondence, and background materials.

subseries B contains 1 box of collaborative projects and works edited by Cooper. This subseries includes manuscripts, correspondence, business materials, photos, promotional materials, reviews, a CD and slides.

subseries C contains materials relating to Cooper's collaborative projects including a play written with Haasen and collaborations with Houston-Jones.

SERIES II: Book Projects and Correspondence of Writers and Artists

Contains the manuscripts, correspondence, reviews, promotional materials, interviews, slides, readings and announcements, clippings and newsletters of friends and colleagues of Cooper.

SERIES III: Journalism

Contains journalism written for magazines and newspapers including but by no means limited to Artforum, The Advocate, Art in America, Spin, and The Village Voice. Series 3 also contains journal articles that either remain unpublished or contain no information regarding the publications for which they were written.

SERIES IV: Biographical material

subseries A contains biographical materials including juvenilia, diaries, scrapbooks, a headshot, college materials, readings, reviews and correspondence from family members.

subseries B contains personal correspondence, including early rejection letters.

SERIES V: Beyond Baroque

Contains materials from Cooper's tenure at Beyond Baroque including correspondence, readings, reviews, writing workshop materials, press materials and photos.

SERIES VI: Little Caesar Magazine/ Little Caesar Press

subseries A contains materials relating to and of Little Caesar Magazine including correspondence, invoice and records, reviews, press materials, production materials, and mock-ups of several issues of the magazine.

subseries B contains all the materials relating to and of Little Caesar Press including manuscripts, mock-ups, cover art, posters, photos, and correspondence.

SERIES VII: Media Material [Access copies may not be available for these materials yet. Check with the Fales archivist.]

subseries A contains all access copies for videotapes available to researchers.

subseries B contains all original video recordings given by Cooper including versions of "Knife/Tape/Rope" and Frisk. [Also see ACCRETION 2002]

subseries C contains all access copies for audio material available to researchers.

subseries D containts all original audio material given by Cooper.

SERIES VIII: Zines

Includes zines collected by Cooper.

SERIES IX: Posters

Contains posters of readings, announcements, and promotional advertisements. The Posters are located in the map case.

OVERSIZE:

There are 2 flat oversize boxes that contain oversize materials from series 6.

ACCRETION 2002:

The 2002 Accretion to The Dennis Cooper Papers focus on Period, the last installment of Cooper's George Miles cycle and My Loose Thread, his first full-length prose work outside said cycle in ten years. The accretion includes scrapbooks, manuscripts, notebooks, and videotapes relating to these works. In the case of Period there's a model house constructed of wood and filled with a hand-drawn representation of the novel's structure, a note to Ziggy, and images of haunted houses, George Miles, and various anonymous teenagers. Also included is a diaristic scrapbook on "Ideal Beauty."

The collection also makes available Cooper's Death and Sex File, which includes clippings from hundreds of magazines and newspapers spanning more than a decade.

There are a number of folders of Juvenalia from the 1960's and 1970's, including early poetry, journalism, prose, journals, correspondence, and Cooper's first novel written when he was an adolescent.

The correspondence in the 2002 Accretion includes photos of the reclusive author J.T. LeRoy and materials regarding Cooper's newest editorial project, the Little House on the Bowery series at Akashic Books.