Today at The Huffington Post my interview with Dennis Cooper ran. We talked about his excellent new novel, The Marbled Swarm and French influences: "I wanted to build a voice that was beholden to French literature, and particularly to its avant-garde wing, which had such a huge impact on my writing from the outset, but was kind of polluted with my own voice, which is very American, I think, and specifically Los Angeles-centric in its flatness and in its attempt to induce some kind of poetic trance within its limitations." Read the rest.