28 Free and open to the public. A two-day celebration of the work of poet, novelist, and cultural critic Dennis Cooper will be hosted by New York University's Fales Library on Thursday and Friday, March 2 and 3. They will turn their critical gaze on the serious achievements Cooper has made with his quintology and with his work as a poet, editor and cultural critic. The exhibition will display the books, manuscripts, photographs, scrapbooks, correspondence, and other materials that document Cooper's creative process.
All events are free and open to the public.
The Dennis Cooper Papers were acquired by the Fales Library at NYU in 1997 as a part of the Downtown Collection, a collection that documents the New York City Downtown scene from 1975 to the present. The Collection, currently holding more than 7000 printed volumes and over 1200 linear feet of archival material, is the only one of its kind at a major research university. According to Marvin Taylor, the Cooper Papers are one of the most important collections in the Fales Library. The Fales Library and Special Collections at NYU's Bobst Library holds nearly 200,000 volumes of English and American fiction, documenting the history of the novel from 1700 to the present.