Bernard Cooper | Granta

Bernard Cooper

Bernard Cooper is an artist and writer whose most recent books are My Avant-Garde Education and The Bill from My Father. He is the recipient of the 1991 PEN/Hemingway Award and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His visual art has been exhibited at the Miami Dade College Museum of Art and Design and the Pacific Design Center. www.bernardcooper.net

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 145 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 145 padlock

Greedy Sleep

Bernard Cooper

‘I knew I had a problem when I woke up in a Motel 6 in Fresno.’

In Conversation | Issue 145
In Conversation | Issue 145

David Gates and Bernard Cooper In Conversation

David Gates & Bernard Cooper

David Gates and Bernard Cooper talk about their contributions to Granta 126: do you remember, untricky writing and purgatory mates.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 126 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 126 padlock

My Avant-Garde Education

Bernard Cooper

‘My response to art was quick, metabolic and revelatory, while my response to sex was a muddle of delayed reactions and missed libidinal signals.’

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