Dennis B. Hooper

Television editor and writer of Victorian/Edwardian erotic detective satire

United States

I am a writer, a doctor, a nuclear physicist and a theoretical philosopher. But above all, I am a man, a hopelessly inquisitive man, just like you.

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Medium
01/24/2022
On Bertrand Tavernier's "Round Midnight"

"Aimez-vous Basketball?" It's probably the most innocuous line in the film, but it's also, in its way, the heart of it. Dale Turner, a gentle but ferociously self-destructive jazz great, has just moved in with Francis, a struggling Parisian illustrator, and his young daughter Bérangère.

Medium
07/11/2022
A Most Disruptive Slaying

written by Lord Reginald Sneden, Esq.transcribed by one Dennis Bell Hooper EDITOR'S NOTE: It should be known that I came across Lord Sneden's personal papers quite by accident, at an estate sale, where I was attempting to acquire what had been described to me as a "demonic book."

Medium
07/08/2022
A Most Suspicious Hanging

EDITOR'S NOTE: This second excerpt from Lord Sneden's memoir finds us in London, where His Lordship took up residence shortly after the completion of his legal studies at Oxford. Though he had...

Medium
07/28/2022
A Most Angelic City

written by Lord Reginald Sneden, Esq.transcribed by one Dennis Bell Hooper EDITOR'S NOTE: This third excerpt from Lord Sneden's memoir takes place in Los Angeles, in the summer of 1923, shortly after the completion of his undergraduate studies.

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Regarding J.D. Vance and Sparkling Water

I've made a lot of jokes about the J.D. Vance sparkling water story from Hillbilly Elegy, to the extent that it probably sounds made up, but you owe it to yourself to read the real thing if you haven't.