I would recommend his work to anyone interested in counter culture journalism / Foucault-esque intellectualism / Soviet era Europe ! I’m having an absolute ball of a time reading about all the shit this man got up to in the 60s and 70s
A very enjoyable little fiction book about a man living in Czechoslovakia during the Cold War who’s obsessed with collecting porcelain figurines. It kinda has the same vibe as a Werner Herzog fiction like Fitzcarraldo if you’re into that sort of thing. Anyway I think it’s way underrated. Here’s the first page because I feel like you can often tell if you will like a book by reading its first page.
Equally excellent to “The Corrections.”
His non fiction is terrific too, eg, “My Bird Problem,” “How To Be Alone,” “Farther Away.”
Any writer who loves the Mekons as much as Jonathan does can’t be bad, right? 🎶
just a delight to read. as much as I love billy burroughs, cooper's awfully brutal in his accusations of him "selling out". also understood the language of the internet far better than a lot of current literature with internet prose does ("The Sluts" is at once shocking and feels like it could've been written yesterday).
