In 1994, a young woman named Fiat Lux donates 21 notebooks full of her writing to a university library then disappears. It's only later that her close relationship with a well-known rock musician who has recently committed suicide is discovered, and the notebook's contents become the subject of growing fascination, conjecture and gossip. The latest instalment in Dennis Cooper's Little House on the Bowery series, Artificial Light may well be the first American novel to successfully treat the alternative rock scene of the 1990s as a subject for serious literature.