Bernard Cooper
Bernard Cooper is going to surprise you. Nothing will have prepared
you for his hybrid of memoir and fiction or his open-hearted,
humorous readings and lectures. Cooper's prose is resonant
and exquisitely crafted. Growing up gay and middle class in
the Los
Angeles of the 1950s and 60s, sexuality, familial relationships,
loss, and AIDS -- these are among Cooper's primary
subjects. Through them all, he expresses his deepest concern:
how the writer explores identity by traveling the terrain of
memory. Masterfully recalling details with delicacy and uncontrived
finesse, Cooper reveals a wisdom as he looks back, which ultimately
transforms the way we examine our own lives.
Bernard Cooper has
published two collections of memoirs, Maps
to Anywhere and Truth
Serum, as well as a novel, A Year of Rhymes.
His work has appeared in Story, Ploughshares, Harper's,
The Paris Review, The New York Times Magazine, and in anthologies
such as The Best American Essays and The Oxford Book
of Literature on Aging. His recent publications include
a collection of short stories, uess
Again. He is the author of The
Bill From My Father: A Memoir (paperback, 2007), which is
being made into a Warner Brothers film by director Dean Parisot.
Bernard Cooper has
won numerous awards and prizes, among them the PEN/Ernest Hemingway
Award, an O. Henry Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Getty
Center for the Arts and Humanities Fellowship. He has taught
at Antioch/Los Angeles and at the UCLA Writer's Program
and is currently the Art Critic for Los
Angeles Magazine. The recipient of a 2000 Guggenheim
fellowship and a 2004 grant from The National Endowment for
the Arts, Bernard Cooper has been the art critic for Los
Angeles Magazine. His new book is entitled The
Bill From My Father: A Memoir.
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Series
Books:The Bill from My Father, January 2007
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