“This modern take on finding oneself shows readers what can happen when you completely lose control and become someone you are not. It reminds us all of Shakespeare’s council, ‘To thine own self be true.'”
-Weldon Long, author of the New York Times bestseller The Power of Consistency
Based on Cooper’s background as a teacher and some of the education-related themes in Outside In, The Total Tutor, Neil Haley, invited Cooper to be a panel member along with Maggie Stevens, author or Parent Fix, on Haley’s show The Total Education Hour to discuss education news.
Listen to the entertaining and informative broadcast as they discuss everything from the selling of Pop-Tarts in school bake sales to teacher accountability for student standardized test scores.
“Blake said the road to excess ieads to the palace of wisdom — but he never spent time in Put-in-Bay, where the pleasure-hungry hero of Doug Cooper’s Midwest saga Outside In goes to forget himself and re-find his wild side. For this debut novel, Cooper has fashioned a modern parable of Shangri Law morphing into The Inferno. The author owns a poet’s eye and an ear for the funny/tragic dialogue of the American lost and searching worthy of comparison to Mamet, Sherwood Anderson, and Joy Williams. A deep, entertaining read about all the truths that find us when we’re looking the other way.”
— Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight, Bad Sex On Speed, and Happy Mutant Baby Pills
Rarely does an author capture the frenzied descent into drug and alcohol
abuse as Doug Cooper in his tumultuous novel Outside In. A story of
disillusion drowned in excess, tempered by the decisions we make to
survive another day. A searing debut.
–Stephen Jay Schwartz, Los Angeles Times bestselling author of Boulevard and Beat
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