Question: In what city did the seial killer, upon whom Dennis Cooper's "Jerk" is based, commit his murders?

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GOSH!: GOSH!  magazine was a Los Angeles-based arts, entertainment, and fashion magazine published in eleven issues between October, 1978 and August, 1979.  In its short history it became notable enough to be recognized by the Smithsonian Institution and included in their archives.  In addition, GOSH!  articles written by Dennis Cooper have been archived as part of the Dennis Cooper Papers in the Fales Library and Special Collections of New York University.  It was distributed free of charge in art galleries, alternative bookstores and music shops in the Los Angeles area.  Articles ranged from interviews with experimental filmmakers like George Kuchar, Sara Kathryn Arledge, and Ted V. Mikels; influential radio announcers like Rodney Bingenheimer; to reviews of art exhibits, like Susan Greiger's (now Susan Singer) controversial show at Aarnun gallery featuring life-sized nude photos arranged in a flip book and an exhibit about how celebrities and common folk relate to their own noses.

Ishmael Houston-Jones: Ishmael Houston-Jones (born 1951, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA) is a choreographer, author, performer, teacher, curator, and arts advocate known for his improvisational dance and language work.  This work has been performed in New York City, across the United States, in Europe, Canada, Australia and Latin America.  Houston-Jones and Fred Holland shared a 1984 New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award for their work "Cowboys, Dreams and Ladders" performed at The Kitchen and he shared another Bessie Award in 2011 with writer Dennis Cooper and composer Chris Cochrane for the 2010 revival of their 1985 collaboration, "THEM".  "THEM" was performed at Performance Space 122 (PS 122) New York's American Realness Festival, Springdance in Utrecht, Tanz im August in Berlin, REDCAT in Los Angeles, Centre Pompidou in Paris, and at TAP,Theatre and Auditorium of Poitiers, France .  The 1985 premier performance of THEM at PS122 was part of New York's first AIDS benefit.

Eileen Myles: Eileen Myles (born December 9, 1949) is an American poet and writer who has produced more than twenty volumes of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, libretti, plays, and performance pieces over the last three decades.  Novelist Dennis Cooper has described Myles as "one of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature."  In 2012 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete "Afterglow" (a memoir), which gives both a real and fantastic account of a dog's life.

Dennis Cooper: Dennis Cooper (born 1953) is an American novelist, poet, critic, editor and performance artist.

Jerk (play): Jerk is a one-person puppet play by the American writer Dennis Cooper, made in collaboration with director Gisèle Vienne and performer Jonathan Capdevielle, based on Cooper's 1993 novel of the same name.  It is based on the story of serial killer Dean Corll and his teenage accomplices David Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley.  The play develops the conceit that Brooks has learnt puppetry in prison and, as part of his rehabilitation, acts out the murders in which he participated via the use of glove puppets and ventriloquism.  The performance also involved sections in which the audience read about the murders in pamphlets, entitled "Two Texts for a Puppet Play by David Brooks" that were distributed.

Too Young to Love: "Too Young to Love" is the debut single by The Big Pink.  "Too Young to Love" was released with the double A-side track "Crystal Visions" on 7" vinyl on October 7, 2008, and both tracks were later re-recorded and included on their debut album "A Brief History of Love" in September 2009.  The song was self-produced by the band, and the single was a limited edition pressing of only 500 copies.  The sleeve features a homoerotic photograph by Dennis Cooper as its cover.  Similarly, a limited edition 12" single for "Too Young to Love," released in Japan only on April 1, 2009, features more of Cooper's photography as its cover.  The 12" also features an early version of "Count Backwards from Ten," which was also re-recorded for the debut album, and the exclusive non-album track "With You."

Frisk (film): Frisk is a 1995 drama film directed by Todd Verow, based on the 1991 novel of the same name by author Dennis Cooper.  It is a first-person narrative about a serial killer.  Dennis (Michael Gunther) describes a series of ritual murders in letters to his sometime lover and best friend, Julian (Jaie Laplante), and Julian's younger brother Kevin (Raoul O'Connell).  It is banned in the UK due to its content.  The cast includes Parker Posey and Alexis Arquette.

Akashic Books: Akashic Books is a Brooklyn-based independent publisher.  Akashic Books' collection began with Arthur Nersesian's "The Fuck Up" in 1997, and has since expanded to include Dennis Cooper's "Little House on the Bowery" series, Chris Abani's Black Goat poetry series, and the internationally successful "Noir" series, originating with Brooklyn Noir, since expanding to international titles such as "Delhi Noir" and "Havana Noir."

Ira Silverberg: Ira Silverberg is an influential literary agent and editor in the New York publishing business.  Silverberg worked as a literary agent at Donadio & Ashworth, as Editor-in-Chief at Grove/Atlantic Press, and as editorial and publishing director at Serpent's Tail's U.S. projects, High Risk Books and Midnight Classics.  He also founded the marketing and public relations firm, Ira Silverberg Communications.  This firm has attracted clients like The Academy of American Poets, William S. Burroughs, the estate of David Wojnarowicz, Dennis Cooper, City Lights Publications, and Re/Search Publications.  He is currently an agent at Sterling Lord Literistic.

Dean Corll: Dean Arnold Corll (December 24, 1939 – August 8, 1973) was an American serial killer who, along with teenaged accomplices David Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley, Jr., abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered at least 28 boys in a series of killings spanning from 1970 to 1973 in Houston, Texas.  The crimes, which became known as the Houston Mass Murders, came to light after Henley fatally shot Corll.

Supporting paragraphs: Jerk (play) Dean Corll
Answer: Houston, Texas