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Wayne Koestenbaum

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Wayne Koestenbaum has published five books of critical prose, including The Queen鈥檚 Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; and three books of poetry, including Ode to Anna Moffo and Other Poems. He is a Professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

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	Humiliation 3.83 avg rating — 521 ratings — published 2011 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My 1980s & Other Essays 3.73 avg rating — 455 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Andy Warhol 3.41 avg rating — 406 ratings — published 2001 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire by Wayne Koestenbaum, Tony Kushner (Introduction) 3.94 avg rating — 304 ratings — published 1993 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Figure It Out 3.60 avg rating — 227 ratings — published 2020 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jackie Under My Skin: Interpreting an Icon 3.56 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hotel Theory 4.02 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Circus: Or, Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes by Wayne Koestenbaum, Rachel Kushner (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Introduction) 3.71 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pink Trance Notebooks 4.05 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cleavage: Essays on Sex, Stars, and Aesthetics 3.94 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“How frequently do you look in the mirror? Does your face please you? Are you disgusted to detect familial features? Do you worship or hate your ancestors? Do you consider your image erotic? Do you pretend that you are a star's child? If you squint, does your reflection become abstract? Is abstraction a transcendental escape from identity or a psychotic spasm of depersonalization?”
― Wayne Koestenbaum, My 1980s & Other Essays

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“The world was doing its best to ignore the fact that I was a writer.”
― Wayne Koestenbaum

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“I am demonstrating to you how tasty I think words are. I鈥檓 having sex with words in front of you. I鈥檓 playing around with them. I鈥檓 getting off. I鈥檓 trying to titillate you. There鈥檚 this magical substance, language, that I鈥檓 laying out for you. Then you鈥檙e going to fondle it.”
― Wayne Koestenbaum, Our Deep Gossip: Conversations with Gay Writers on Poetry and Desire

tags: words

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