Cooper concluded his quintet of novels in 2000 with Period, a splintered tale of satanic sacrifice, gang rape, and nonchalant mutilation, which Publishers Weekly nonetheless called a "darkly comic ride through the looking glass of marginal youth culture." The novel also celebrates the return of the George Miles character.

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As Cooper has explained, "The cycle doesn't so much end as collapse in on itself, and all that's left is a writer, his memories of a dead boy he loved, and the books that tried and failed to understand and express that love."

Other Works by Dennis Cooper

Cooper's post-George Miles Cycle novels include My Loose Thread (2002), a spare, dialogue-driven tale about a teenage boy struggling to understand his physical attraction to his younger brother. The Sluts (2004), concerning an online community that comments on a website dedicated to gay male escorts, was the recipient of the 2005 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Fiction. His most recent novel, God Jr. (2005), tells the story of the disintegration of a marriage in the wake of an adolescent boy's death.

Cooper is a highly prolific writer. His other works include the 1992 collection of short stories, Wrong. That same year, Cooper edited Discontents: New Queer Writers (1992). The Dream Police: Selected Poems, 1969-1993, a gathering of new and previously published poems, appeared in 1995.

He has also contributed articles and reviews for a variety of publications, including Art in America, Artforum, The Advocate, the Village Voice, and the rock music magazine Spin. A collection of these works, All Ears: Cultural Criticism, Essays, and Obituaries, also appeared in 1995.

He has coauthored two graphic novels: Jerk (1993), with Nayland Blake, and Horror Hospital Unplugged (1996), with Keith Mayerson.

In 2003, he founded the Little House on the Bowery imprint, which focuses on the works of young North American writers, for the independent publisher Akashic Books, and has since published works by Travis Jeppesen, Matthew Stokoe, and Derek McCormack, among others.

Since 2005, Cooper has been dividing his time between Los Angeles and Paris. While in Paris he has collaborated with the French theater director Gisèle Vienne and the composer Peter Rehberg on four theatrical works: I Apologize (2004), Une Belle Enfant Blonde (2005), Kindertotenlieder (2007), and a stage adaptation of his graphic novel, Jerk (2008).

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