A CONTRIBUTING EDITOR OF ARTFORUM, DENNIS COOPER PUBLISHED GOD. JR.. HIS EIGHTH NOVEL, IN JULY (BLACK CAT. 2005). 1 THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, TWIN CINEMA (MATADOR) I'm not so giddily in love with these Vancouverbased indie rock perfectionists that I couldn't have used this...

1 THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, TWIN CINEMA (MATADOR) I'm not so giddily in love with these Vancouver-based indie rock perfectionists that I couldn't have used this space to write a long, rational essay about them titled something like "God Not Dead?" [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]...

The Transom was, of course, entranced by today's JT Leroy semi-expose in New York magazine, even though Serena Torrey, the icy blonde vixen PR woman at New York magazine wouldn't send over advance on it last Friday, or even arrange to have the author comment...

In the following essay, Jackson studies the interrelationship of sex and death in Cooper's fiction and the author's explorations of the limits of self-knowledge and metaphysical longing, as depicted in scenes of ritualized sexual violence and physical degradation and mirrored in the simulacra of voyeurism and pornographic images.

In the following interview, Cooper discusses the development of his thematic concerns and stylistic approach, his literary influences, the significance of representative characters in his fiction, and his interest in studying the notion of bliss in future works.

In the following essay, Viegener examines the American fascination with psychosexual murderers and the portrayal of homosexuals as calculating, deviant criminals, drawing attention to Frisk and Jerk for examples of the pathological, anti-social gay killer. Viegener contends that Cooper's depictions of sexual violence are not a strategy for transgression, but suggest the extreme limits of experience, self-identity, and intersubjectivity.