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 Irma Thomas ("The Soul Queen of New Orleans") Interviewed by T Cooper in The Believer (June/July '08 Music Issue) * * * * *  T Cooper WINS a NewNowNext Award! (T won both the "Nexty" and Audience Choice awards in the "Brink of Fame: Author" category) Check it out HERE * * * * *  T Cooper Photographs (Out Magazine: View full fashion shoot by Cass Bird HERE New Feature by T Cooper in Out Magazine New Short Fiction by T Cooper in The New Yorker * * * * * T Cooper included in the "Best of Everything 2007" by New York Press T Cooper's Secret Celebrity Obsession Revealed PODCAST with T Cooper & Marisha Pessl T Cooper on cover of GO Magazine T Cooper & Felicia Luna Lemus Featured in CURVE Magazine Stylish New FEATURE with T Cooper & Felicia Luna Lemus Lipshitz 6 a "Star Pick" in PEOPLE Magazine Lipshitz 6 honored by THE 2006 BELIEVER Book Awards Lipshitz Six named as one of the Best Books of 2006 by the Austin Chronicle Lipshitz Now a Paperback BESTSELLER (Los Angeles Times Book Review: March 18 & April 1, 2007 issues) ROUNDTABLE w/ T Cooper & other anthologists in The Southeast Review (April 2007) NEW INTERVIEW with T Cooper on BookLoons (Feb '07) Lipshitzes on PAPERBACK ROW in New York Times (Feb 11, 2007) Watch VIDEO of T's paperback release party & show, with performance by rapper Soce the elemental wizard. CLICK HERE to see Bluestockings Bookstore event, NYC (02.08.07) Germany Tour AUDIO CLIP and PHOTO GALLERY (Wiesbaden: Feb 1, 2007) * Also available as a downloadable podcast HERE * Readers Guide to Lipshitz Six now available HERE So good you could EAT IT 
CLICK HERE to TAKE a WALK in the AUTHOR'S SHOES 
T Cooper chosen for OUT 100 list (Dec '06 issue) T Cooper on Death Comes for the Archbishop in OUT (Jan '07 issue) T Cooper's "Top Ten Events of 2006" in Punk Planet (Jan/Feb '07 issue) Interview by T Cooper with actor Daniela Sea in OUT (Dec '06 issue) Interview with T Cooper by Mattilda in Tikkun (Nov/Dec '06 issue)  on Vin Scelsa's "Idiot's Delight" click here & go to archives and then October 21, 2006 Idiot's Delight show * * * * * Fiction by T Cooper in KGB Bar Lit (Excerpt from A Fictional History, September 2006) Interview with T Cooper by Joe Meno in Punk Planet Magazine (September/October '06 issue) Essay by T Cooper in Poets & Writers (September/October '06 issue) * * * * German edition of Lipshitz just released (September '06): 
Good N E W S: Lipshitz selected by Elke Heidenreich for LESEN! television show (It's like the German version of Oprah's book club, dude.) Click Here for some German press * * * * Middlebury Magazine Review August 2006 July 14, 2006 From The Believer (June/July 2006 issue) From The Forward (June 9, 2006) from The Brooklyn Rail (May 2006 issue) on PopMatters.com (May 10, 2006) from New Haven Advocate (May 4, 2006)  The Believer (April 19, 2006) Archived show: Vin Scelsa's "Idiot's Delight" click here & search June 10, 2006 show in Archives  Feature by T Cooper: The New York Times Style Magazine (May 21, 2006)  "A Journey, Wrapped in a Mystery" Essay by T Cooper: The New York Times (February 26, 2006) as one of "25 New Yorkers to Keep An Eye On" in 2006 
full story From The New York Times Book Review: "T Cooper's unusual and avowedly postmodern new novel is really two books in one... What distinguishes Cooper's take [on the European Jewish diaspora] is its utter lack of sentimentality. No overbearing but ultimately well-meaning Jewish mother figures in Lipshitz Six. Instead, we get Esther Lipshitz... Not since Sophie Portnoy has there been a Jewish mother from quite the same place in hell... This kooky but strangely compelling story...is further enhanced by Cooper's considerable descriptive powers, which bring to life such varied tableaus as a Russian pogrom, a Lower East Side gang fight and a Lindbergh rally in Oklahoma City... [T]he story of Esther...resonates long after the book has been closed." From BookPage: "Whether it's enjoyed as an immigrant saga, a multigenerational family tale or a sly commentary on the phenomenon of fame in our time, Cooper's novel reveals a fresh, engaging voice that will capture the reader's imagination from the first word and hold it to the last." From Time Out New York: "Cooper's storytelling skills are phenomenal. She effortlessly shifts perspectives, from the unhappy Esther and her downtrodden husband to their gay son, before switching to first person for the coda. Throughout, her experiments are divine: They serve to make this peculiar family feel real." From Publishers Weekly: "Cooper takes apart the usual Jewish heritage tale and themes of assimilation, touching them with postmodern parody and Chagall-esque folk magic." From The Believer: "If sexual identity can be cooked up into myriad forms, like rice into sticky balls or candy or paper, and anything categorized as autobiography nowadays is met with skepticism, how do we confront a work that's part dark history and part light-hearted, self-conscious, gender-flexing fiction? T Cooper's second book conjures the conundrum--and casually shrugs it off... "Full of weary father figures and aptly placed metatextual embellishments, the [first] section [of the novel] could stand alone. But a shorter, codalike section infuses the work with a staggering self-confidence... "The way Cooper toys with readers is part Sarah Silverman and part Jonathan Safran Foer. Obscuring gender in fiction is nothing new, but Cooper hits her puckish stride when roiling her audience, and then (usually) letting it in on the joke." From Texas Monthly: "T Cooper strews ambiguity like clues at a crime scene throughout Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes... The Lipshitz story is brilliant, and the post-modern coda...offers up a surprising conclusion." From Seattle Post Intelligencier: "Cooper has an affinity for creative liberties, even in anything-goes 21st-century fiction, liberties of a stunning sort... This is not another generic everyday family saga, not when it starts in the Russian pogroms, jogs past Charles Lindbergh and closes with a guy who impersonates rapper Eminem at bar mitzvahs." From The Washington Post: "The author's talent lies in his ability to capture the endlessly complex nature of families and their shared memories." From The Santa Fe Reporter: "A very weird and wonderful quasi-epistolary, quasi-postmodern novel." From Booklist: "T's ambitious second novel... [is] in the mold of Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex... Gripping." From Out magazine: "Flouting literary convention (hurrah)... Acutely and poignantly brings family history into the infinitely complicated present." From Bitch: "T Cooper takes postmodern literature to a new pinnacle with this second novel, putting Cooper on par with an elite group of authors like Jonathan Franzen, Dave Eggers, and Jonathan Safran Foer." From The Forward: "One of the author's strong suits is her people, and she keeps their multiple storylines juggled in the air... Lipshitz Six is a haunting look at the legacy of lost children--those who go missing, those who are murdered, or those who are simply lost to themselves through neglect. Cooper is best when she levels her steady gaze on them, as she does... in the harrowing aftermath of a pogrom. Which is to suggest not that she limit her experimental streak--she's too good and too ambitious a novelist for that." From The Dallas Morning News: "Rich characters and unforgettable scenes... This [is] one strange, funny story." From The Providence Journal: "A strangely compelling tale... an unsettling but intriguing meditation on the power of genetics to shape a person's world." From Flaunt: "Thematically affecting and exhaustively researched." From The Brooklyn Rail: "Clean and well-executed... Cooper's exercise in meta-fiction, and in dredging real family history and heritage... is distinct. She avoids the insecurity an autobiographical writer faces [in] a project like this by creating someone else, who does happen to be a writer, and is therefore able to take the heat in her place." From Curve: "Every year or so, a novel... knocks the wind right out of me. This book will be so well-written, so stunning in scope, so adroit in its character development... One such title is Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes... Cooper is a literary trickster, and like a few other contemporary writers, sucessfully blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction... A fantastic--and fantastical--joyride." From Jewish Woman Magazine: "Not your typical Jewish immigrants coming to America story." From The Baltimore Sun: "Enthralling." From Girlfriends: "Elegant [and] intriguing." From OutSmart (Houston): "This pseudo family history, told from the viewpoint of a grandchild who frequently impersonates Eminem, details the consequences of oppression, cultural assimilation, and the dangers of trying to pass for what you're not. A great story, beautifully crafted, this book is one of my favorites of the year." From Chicago Free Press: "An extraordinary and moving family portrait." From Library Journal: "A smart story." Foreign rights for Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes have been sold to Germany (Marebuchverlag) and Italy (Mondadori). 
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