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T Cooper

rapper/actor/model/philatelist/author

About Me

T Cooper pictured w/Geo Wyeth (of Novice Theory)
Photography by Cass Bird for Out Magazine

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Now in PAPERBACK:
Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes (click to order)
a novel by T Cooper
(Plume/Penguin, 2007)
A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER in hardcover & paperback
Selected Best Book of the Year (by The Austin Chronicle & The Believer)
Lipshitz 6 now available for DOWNLOAD on iTunes
(Search audiobooks by title)
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"A glorious identity-bending, multigenerational epic."
--Time Out New York
"Unusual and avowedly postmodern... a compelling story."
--The New York Times
"Cooper takes postmodern literature to a new pinnacle with this second novel, putting Cooper on par with an elite group of authors like Jonathan Franzen, Dave Eggers, and Jonathan Safran Foer."
--Bitch Magazine
"Brilliant." --Texas Monthly
"Stunning... This is not another generic everyday family saga, not when it starts in the Russian pogroms, jogs past Charles Lindbergh, and closes with a guy who impersonates rapper Eminem at bar mitzvahs."
--Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Enthralling" --The Baltimore Sun
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T Cooper convo w/Ani DiFranco (11/18/07):
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(ABOVE) Watch T's paperback release party, where Soce the elemental wizard freestyles from Lipshitz 6 and performs original tracks.
T & the lovely Kate Bornstein @ L6 book release party
from OUT
from German ELLE
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& CHECK OUT T COOPER'S OTHER BOOKS:
A Fictional History of the United States
With Huge Chunks Missing

(edited by T Cooper & Adam Mansbach; Akashic, Sept 2006)
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& T COOPER'S DEBUT NOVEL:
Some of the Parts
(Akashic, 2002)

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"Like Son" and "Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties" by Felicia Luna Lemus; "American Pastoral," "Portnoy's Complaint," "Operation Shylock" and "The Facts" by Philip Roth; "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro; "The Shawl" by Cynthia Ozick; "Poetics" by Aristotle; "Mrs. Dalloway" and "To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf; "Jesus' Son" by Denis Johnson; "One Hundred Years of Solitutde" and "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; "Lolita" by Nabokov; "The Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon; "Libra" by Don DeLillo; "Kiss of the Spider Woman" by Manuel Puig; "The Passion According to G.H." by Clarice Lispector; "Death Comes for the Archbishop" by Willa Cather; "Death in Venice" by Thomas Mann; "Before Night Falls" by Renaldo Arenas; "The Periodic Tables" by Primo Levi; "Coming Through Slaughter" by Michael Ondaatje; "Valencia" by Michelle Tea; "Civilwarland in Bad Decline" by George Saunders; "The Long Night of White Chickens" by Francisco Goldman; "Break it Down" by Lydia Davis; "From Pieces to Weight" by 50-Cent; "Martin Dressler" by Steven Millhauser; "Helter Skelter" by Vincent Bugliosi; "The 27th City" and "The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen; "A Home at the End of the World" by Michael Cunningham; "Paradise Lost" by Milton; "Clarissa" by Richardson; "Moll Flanders" by DaFoe; "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee; "The Fuck-Up" by Arthur Nersesian; "Maus" by Art Spiegelman; "Gender Outlaw" & "My Gender Workbook" by Kate Bornstein; "Chang and Eng" by Darin Strauss; "A Fine Place" by Nicholas Montemarano; "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" by Michael Chabon; "Frankenstein" by Shelley; "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson; "The Sleeping Father" by Matthew Sharpe, "Mitz" and "The Last of Her Kind" by Sigrid Nunez; "Stiff" by Mary Roach; "The Black Dahlia Avenger" by I don't know, that guy; "Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson; "The Sluts" by Dennis Cooper; "We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families" by Philip Gourevitch; "Pol Pot" by Philip Short; "Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell; "Edinburgh" by Alexander Chee; "Headless" by Benjamin Weissman; "Can't Stop Won't Stop" by Jeff Chang; "Swimming to Cambodia" by Spalding Gray, "Trance" by Christopher Sorrentino, "The Story of Junk" by Linda Yablonski, "I Am Not Myself These Days" by Josh Kilmer-Purcell, "The White Album" by Joan Didion, "Genealogy" by Maud Casey; "Sorry, Tree" by Eileen Myles; "Surrender!" by Matt Greene, fwd by Benjamin Weissman; and in the interest of self-flagellation, I mean promotion: "Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes" and "Some of the Parts" by T Cooper, and "A Fictional History of the United States with Huge Chunks Missing" edited by T Cooper & Adam Mansbach. Yo.

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My Blog

LIPSHITZ 6 in Oprah Magazine this month

T Cooper's LIPSHITZ 6, OR TWO ANGRY BLONDES appears in the new O: The Oprah Magazine (September '08 issue)Click HERE to read about books that made a difference to Tea Leoni...
Posted by T Cooper on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:44:00 PST

New interview with The Soul Queen of New Orleans

Check out T Cooper's interview with Irma Thomas, The Soul Queen of New Orleans, in the new issue of THE BELIEVER magazine (July/Aug '08 Music issue).On stands now, or click HERE to see an excerpt....
Posted by T Cooper on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:02:00 PST

T Coopers a WIENER!

Or at least a WINNER:T Cooper won both the "Nexty" and the "Audience Choice" awards in Logo's NewNowNext Awards on Saturday night.This means that T Cooper is now--officially--on the "Brink of Fame" as...
Posted by T Cooper on Tue, 06 May 2008 06:13:00 PST

The Bathroom Chronicles

Check out T's debut column in Out Magazine's May issue:Read all about my Toilet Trials Here...
Posted by T Cooper on Fri, 02 May 2008 09:37:00 PST

Photo Voyeurism

See if you can pick out a photo of T's desk from a selection of other authors' personal photographs. And--if you're inspired--leave a poem, vignette, or other short narrative in response to one or mor...
Posted by T Cooper on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:39:00 PST

OUT Magazine Trans issue: Now Online

T Cooper guest-edited the April 2008 issue of Out Magazine,the first ever Transgender-focused issue:Check out some of the stories online:Letters from Editors T Cooper & Aaron HicklinT Cooper's feature...
Posted by T Cooper on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:01:00 PST

Top 5

T Cooper's Top 5 on Hipster Book Club
Posted by T Cooper on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:11:00 PST

Secret Celebrity Obsession Revealed

T Cooper + Alan Alda = TLF(Click above link to read new interview w/T Cooper in Fanzine)...
Posted by T Cooper on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:00:00 PST

Some Recent Short Fiction by T Cooper (The New Yorker)

Check out T Cooper's new story, "Swimming," published in the August 20 issue of The New Yorker magazine.click here to read the story on New Yorker website...
Posted by T Cooper on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:05:00 PST

Everybody PODCASTs

Check out the latest w/ T Cooper & Lipshitz 6, or Two Angry Blondes, in a podcast featuring T and fellow novelist Marisha Pessl (Special Topics in Calamity Physics)Click HERE to listen (podcast #62).A...
Posted by T Cooper on Tue, 15 May 2007 12:31:00 PST