Complete Bibliography

Poetry:

The Terror of Earrings (Kinks Press, 1973)
Tiger Beat (Little Caesar Press, 1978)
Idols (The SeaHorse Press, 1979)
Tenderness of the Wolves (The Crossing Press, 1981)
The Missing Men (Am Here Books/Immediate Editions, 1982)
He Cried (Black Star Series, 1985)
Idols, revised edition (Amethyst Press, 1989)
The Dream Police: Selected Poems 69-93 (Grove Press, 1994)
The Weaklings (Void Books, forthcoming)


Fiction:

Antoine Monnier (Anon Press, 1978)
My Mark (Sherwood Press, 1982)
Safe (The SeaHorse Press, 1985)
Closer (Grove Press, 1989)
Frisk (Grove Press, 1991)
Wrong, stories (Grove Press, 1992)
Try (Grove Press, 1994)
Guide (Grove Press, 1997)
Period (Grove Press, 2000)
My Loose Thread (Canongate Books, 2002)
The Sluts (Void Books, 2005 / Carroll & Graf, 2005)
God Jr. (Grove / Atlantic, 2005)


Collaborative works:

Jerk (Artspace Books, 1993) w/ Nayland Blake
Dear Dennis, Love Lari (Jonathan Hammer Editions, 1995) w/ Lari Pittman, Jonathan Hammer
Horror Hospital Unplugged (Juno Books, 1997) w/ Keith Mayerson
The Undead (CD, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1997) w/ Ishmael Houston-Jones, Tom Recchion, Robert Flynt, o.a.
Weird Little Boy (CD/book, Avant Records, 1998) w/ John Zorn, Mike Patton, Casey McKinney, Chris Cochrane, Nayland Blake, o.a.
Dennis: Story-Song (Don Waters, 2006) w/ Robert Pollard, Richard Hell, Xiu Xiu, Stephen Prina, Peter Rehberg and more


Nonfiction:

All Ears: Criticism, Essays, and Obituaries (Soft Skull Press, 2001)


Editor:

Little Caesar Magazine, Issues 1-12 (1976-1982)
Little Caesar Press, Editor-in-Chief (1978-1982)
Coming Attractions: American Poets in Their Twenties (Little Caesar Press, 1982)
Against Nature: A Group Show by Homosexual Men (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 1989) w/ Richard Hawkins Farm Boys (Feature Inc., 1992)
Discontents: New Queer Writing (Amethyst Press, 1994)
New Gay Writers (nerve.com, 1999)
Bookforum, Guest Editor: Fiction (2001)
WLS / The LA Weekly Literary Supplement, Guest Editor (2002)
The Kathy Acker Reader (Grove Press, 2003) w/ Amy Scholder
Little House on the Bowery / Akashic Books, Editor-in-Chief (2003-present )


Art Books and Catalogs:

David Salle, 'David Salle' (Bruno Bischofberger, 1985)
Jack Shear, 'Four Marines and Other Portraits' (Twelvetrees Press, 1985)
Charles Ray, 'Charles Ray' (Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1990)
Tony Greene, 'Exhausted Autumn' (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 1991)
Lust: The Body Politic (Liberation Publications, 1991)
John Miller, 'Rock Sucks Disko Sucks' (Daadgalerie Berlin, 1992)
Helter Skelter: LA Art in the 1990s (The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1992)
Mike Kelley, 'Catholic Tastes' (The Whitney Museum of Art/Abram Books, 1993)
Gothic: Transmutations of Horror in Late Twentieth Century Art (The MIT Press, 1997)
Mise En Scene: New LA Sculpture (Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2000)
Francesca Gabbiani, 'Francesca Gabbiani' (I-40 Gallery, 2000)
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (Atlanta Contemporary Projects, 2001)
Tom Friedman, 'Tom Friedman' (Phaidon Press, 2002)
Raymond Pettibon, 'Raymond Pettibon' (Phaidon Press, 2002)
Guide to Trust #2 (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2002)
Sue De Beer, 'For Hans and Grete' (The American Academy in Berlin, 2002)
Bill Henson, 'Bill Henson' (Roslyn Oxley Galley, 2003)
Frozen Tears (Article Press, 2004)