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Douglas Anthony Cooper
Douglas Anthony Cooper is a Canadian novelist living in Rome. Michiko Kakutani in ''The New York Times'' wrote that his "elliptical narrative style recalls works by D. M. Thomas, Paul Auster, Sam Shepard and Vladimir Nabokov." Background Cooper, born in Toronto, has published three novels—''Amnesia (Cooper novel), Amnesia'', ''Delirium (Cooper novel), Delirium'', and ''Milrose Munce and the Den of Professional Help (novel), Milrose Munce and the Den of Professional Help''—as well as a children's book, ''Galunker''. His second novel, ''Delirium'', is credited with being the first novel serialized online. Cooper has an M.A. in philosophy and completed a year of architecture school. His novels deal with architectural theory, and he has collaborated regularly with architects: notably on new media projects with Diller Scofidio + Renfro. He studied Latin rhetoric, and was a serious competitive debater in college—he was Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate, Can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
