/lit/ - Literature

pic related, Dennis Cooper, one of my favorite authors:

>parents were violent, raging alcoholics who left him to care for his younger siblings
>gay in the 1960s
>was a cokehead for years
>friend of his hit him over the head with an axe when he was 10 and nearly killed him
>every story is inspired by the same guy he fell in love with who committed suicide
>had a 10 hour long bad acid trip that left him unable to function properly for years
>tons of friends dead to heroin/suicide
>near necrophilic sexual deviant. Lots of pedophilia, rape and abuse in his work. Has been obsessed with death and sex since puberty.
>completed his first novel while nearly dying from measels in Amsterdam, thinking initially that it was HIV

He's apparently really friendly and personable, though.

>>9200135
"His life had been reduced to a simplistic blur, like the trails in the air left by people on fire."

-Dennis Cooper in the novel Frisk

is this guy worth reading ?