Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts is a repulsively fascinating bit of epistemological puppetry. Published in…

Dennis Cooper&rsquo;s The Sluts is a repulsively fascinating bit of epistemological puppetry. Published in 2004, it mostly takes the form of reviews on a gay male escort reviewing site, through which emerges a narrative of a messed-up and unnervingly receptive young hustler named Brad – a cute boy so game he&rsquo;s supposedly going to let someone kill him. That narrative is swiftly contradicted,…