But it is better to let labels go. The writers are Dennis Cooper, Eileen Myles, Dodie Bellamy, Kevin Killian, Robert Gl ck, Matthew Stadler, Laurence Ytzhak Braithwaite, kari edwards, art critic and curator Roberto Tejada, publisher, lyricist, playwright, and guerilla publisher Sander Hicks. The bands are Krakatoa, Ether Drag, White Collar Crime, and The National. Dennis Cooper, who has been publishing since the early seventies, may be the eminence grise of the new Punk, though he is only 47. All Ears, a collection of cultural criticism, rants, and celebrity interviews, was published in 1999, and he is the co-editor of the Kathy Acker Reader, due out in 2002.
Cooper is anything but cozy.
Matthew, posing as his own best friend Herbert, an art historian, travels to Paris to substantiate the notion that Allan S. may have been the model for Picasso's 'Boy Leading a Horse,' among others. Sander Hicks, playwright, publisher, songwriter, lead singer, and all-around Wunderkind, is a tsunami of creativity. George W. Bush and the Making of an American President. He is a superintendent of an apartment building on Manhattan's Lower East Side, and he runs Soft Skull Press out of the basement. He has published 42 books so far, written five plays, and he's down with every cause on the Lower East Side, from urban gardens, to police harassment.